Intermediate Classical Music Sheet Music

Stuart Beatch's a boy & a boy sets a romantic and ultimately tragic text by poet Matthew Stepanic. Written as a response to Eric Whitacre's well-known work A Boy and a Girl, Beatch describes this piec...

Rajasekar has drawn on the melodic and rhythmic grammar of both traditions of Indian classical music, Hindustani and Carnatic, to create a unique choral celebration of springtime. The meaning of the t...

This glorious, heartfelt, and at times agonizing work sets a prescient text by Nicholas Andreas Vrenios, a victim of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. McDowall employs vocal embellishments, harmonic diss...

McDowall's poignant Angel of the Battlefield, originally commissioned by the Glasgow School of Art Choir as part of the Composeher project, is both an exposition on the horrors of war and a celebratio...

Works for choir are represented in the œuvre of Leoš Janácek (1854-1928) from his beginnings as a composer until almost the last days of his life. Already in his youth he was intensively involved as a...

2016 marked the 100th anniversary of Max Reger's death. In addition to his best-known creative field, the organ works, his compositions for choir form another important part of his oeuvre. This editio...

The two poems "Triptyk" (Triptych) and "Mörkblå tillit" (Dark Blue Trust) were written by the poet and hospital chaplain Kerstin Dillmar. "Triptyk" is an inner journey in three parts, so to speak - wi...

Let us build a house is the closing hymn of Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger. Instead of a typical majestic ending to a large work, Arnesen went for a quiet one with only an unaccomp...

Adapted from Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie, the text of this carol portrays the tranquil, almost eerie, atmosphere of walking alone in fresh snow. The musical setting reflects scenery, with a soaring s...

For my composition Cosa devo fare, I was inspired when I read the text accompanying the picture cycle Books of Venice by the Latvian artist Ilmars Blumbergs, who died in 2016. The Books of Venice, con...

Motet for five voices (SATBB) for Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

1. Miserere 2. Du, dem nie im Leben 3. Amplius

After ending his studies with Sechter, Bruckner wrote his Ave Maria in 1861. On October 3, 1861 he reported in a letter: "I was, in the end, splendidly aplauded by my choir—twice.“ In this very sound-...

After ending his studies with Sechter, Bruckner wrote his Ave Maria in 1861. On October 3, 1861 he reported in a letter: "I was, in the end, splendidly aplauded by my choir-twice.“ In this very sound-...

This gradual for the Feast of Holy Church Fathers was composed in 1879. The Lydian setting is, as Bruckner himself said, "without sharps, without flats, without triads on the 7th step, without six-fou...

This gradual for the Feast of Holy Church Fathers was composed in 1879. The Lydian setting is, as Bruckner himself said, "without sharps, without flats, without triads on the 7th step, without six-fou...

In this interesting motet by Bruckner, short imitative choral sections alternate with monophonic chorale passages. There are also sections in the old falsobordone setting. The short work on a verse fr...

In this interesting motet by Bruckner, short imitative choral sections alternate with monophonic chorale passages. There are also sections in the old falsobordone setting. The short work on a verse fr...