Intermediate Classical Music of the Modern Age Sheet Music

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 work for high school mixed choir that challenges all of us to engage in what the world has to offer.

A piece for high school choirs that invites audiences to not only consider the power of music, but how that power is augmented and transfigured by the power of human relationships.

A fun setting that creatively incorporates percussion with the choir. A great closer!

A lyrical setting of the E. E. Cummings text and part of a larger extended work, this piece works well with piano or orchestra. A great piece for a "love-themed" concert.

Without a doubt, Carl Orff's masterpiece 'Carmina Burana', composed in 1936, is one of the most famous musical creations in the world. By popular demand, a single edition of the opening chorus 'O Fort...

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...

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...

Inspired by the awe-inspiring transformations described in the twenty-first chapter of Revelation, I Saw a New Heaven evokes visions of a new heaven and earth, the holy city descending from heaven, an...

Inspired by a book of the same name by the author Dorothy Yglesias, a poem was written by Kay Soteriu, Vivienne Olive's sister. "The Cry of a Bird" by Vivienne Olive is a setting of this poem, which m...

The Old Pull of the Earth by David von Kampen is a reflective choral work inspired by a celebrated passage from My Ántonia by Willa Cather, evoking the deep emotional bond between people and the lands...

Singer/songwriter Erich Eastman created It’ll Be Alright as a response to the anxieties we all can experience in life. It is a joyous celebration of looking deep within oneself to carry on. Originally...

The pinnacle of The Velveteen Rabbit says that becomming "real" happens when someone loves you for a long time. James Deignan's musical setting sounds like the journey through a storybook, with twists...

Mosaic of Stars is an exploration of growth, unity, and wonder. With an inventive and supportive piano accompaniment, this beautiful work by Carlos Lalonde is a nice challenge for SAB choirs. The sono...

Iron Rain pays homage to the mystery and the expanse of space through the words of planetary scientist and poet Dr. Sam Illingworth. On some distant planets, temperatures range from very hot to very c...

A bridge can serve as a wonderful metaphor—connection and understanding in a world where misunderstanding is pervasive, grace and empathy in a world so quick to judge. In Be the Bridge, the choir invi...

Where The Good Sounds Live brings Alvin Singleton's distinctive sonic imprint to the symphonic wind band world, with an extended fanfare that defies presumptions. This compelling piece takes musicians...

Unusual instrumentations were by no means the exception in the chamber music works of Bohuslav Martinu, most notably the works he wrote in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s being characterised by his exper...

Composer's note: 'In 2000 I wrote a piece called Sand Waltz for the Canberra Wind Players. In the middle of it I wrote a four-chord progression. When I started working on the ballet Wild Swans (2003)...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...