Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

This work was commissioned by the BBC. It was first performaed in 11 August 1995, as part of a Henry Wood Promenade Concert at teh Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC...

Audio sample: "Heart wide open" (performed by Lea Morris)

Audio sample: "Heart wide open" (performed by Lea Morris)

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

A poignant reminder of how music can resonate with our experiences and feelings, this work is a rewarding experience for both the performers and the audience.

A rich setting of an Amy Lowell poem with lush piano and great part-writing for the vocalists, pointing them towards their "guiding light."

Another expertly-written work by Karen Marrolli, "Like Stars" is a great piece for a high school or collegiate ensemble.

With sumptious, layered vocals, the piece transports listeners to a realm where time slows, and emotions are held in delicate suspension.

An inspiring song for young mixed voices with text written by Coty Raven Morris. A great teaching piece for the classroom.

In creating a choral arrangement of this song in 2011, I endeavored to remain as true as possible to the composer's vocal score from 1894, and to his chamber orchestra score from 1897. The melody in t...

A reflective and quiet setting of a poem by Madison Julius Cawein.

An epic poem by Emerson that talks about music as mystery. The text is matched with equally mysterious music. A part of a larger work entitled “Sing Evermore.”

This piece gives occasion to explore complex harmonies as an expression of the mystery of chords. These are added-tone sonorities—clusters. The author searches for that perfect peace, the one lost cho...

Based on a poem by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). The bird, a prisoner in his cage, beats his wing until the blood is red on the cruel bars. He sings a plea, to Heaven, for he...

A short flute introduction of music floating across the sky opens “Sky-Born Music.” The poet (Emerson) writes that music is heard not only in places of beauty, but also in the mud, the dark, in the da...

The texts for these songs span many centuries and have the common thread of praising music for its power —from Richard Barnfield”s “In Praise of Music and Poetry” (published in 1598) to the uplifting...

With a text written by the composer, Han Lash’s Canticum Psalmi Falsum, is a spirited work that is both ridiculous and musically powerful. Han Lash is a modern master of choral counterpoint and Lash’s...

THE NEIGHBORING VILLAGE consists of three-and-a-half settings of a two-sentence short story by Franz Kafka, and a musical enactment of the telescoping of time that the story describes. The first setti...