Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

With lyrics that follow rules for ancient Scandinavian Viking meters, this beautiful song is a tribute to the tree and to nature but is even more so a call for action to protect and preserve. 

In Grown about by fragrant bushes, Skempton sets a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson using gentle, lilting melodies. The theme of loss is sensitively conveyed in a tonal language that is made more expres...

On the Air (Dear Vaccine) discusses the optimism for a post-COVID world and, particularly, the desire to sing together again. For the text, poet Seán Street drew inspiration from 'Dear Vaccine', which...

The Gift to Sing is an unaccompanied part-song with a text by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that speaks to the way the power of song can help to overcome dark times. G...

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...

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...

The Slovenian composer Katarina Pustinek Rakar (b. 1979) studied music theory, oboe, singing, and composition in Ljubljana. She is actively involved with the best Slovenian choirs, is a member of the...

Die slowenische Komponistin Katarina Pustinek Rakar (*1979) studierte Musiktheorie, Oboe, Gesang und Komposition in Ljubljana. Sie arbeitete aktiv mit den besten slowenischen Chören zusammen, u.a. als...

Look Around is a piece for four-part mixed choir by Polish composer and arranger Zuzanna Koziej. The message of the work is reflective: Koziej calls on us to pause, raise our awareness and enjoy the b...

Look Around is a piece for four-part mixed choir by Polish composer and arranger Zuzanna Koziej. The message of the work is reflective: Koziej calls on us to pause, raise our awareness and enjoy the b...

From the "Solstice Trilogy," this piece is a great addition for winter concerts for advanced high school and collegiate choirs. It's upbeat tempo and rhythmic intrincacies adds to the musical interest...

A gentle lullaby based on an old Welsh Folk Song with the tune AR HYD Y NOS.

The textures and harmony are fairly simple but flexibility and care are required by both singers and director to draw the most out of the work.