Intermediate Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

A collection of three choral songs setting the words of three First World War poets, commissioned in 2014 by the choir Sospiri to mark the centenary of the start of the war. The songs are charged with...

This piece for unaccompanied mixed choir (with frequent voice divisions) was commissioned by Ralph Allwood for the 1987 broadcast of the Eton Choral Course on Radio 3. The inimitable poem by Phineas F...

Predating the well-known Bethlehem Down by just a few years, As dew in Aprylle is one of several choral works by Warlock to draw on texts from the 15th century Sloane Manuscript, yet musically this wo...

A powerful setting for 8-part choir of three of the Good Friday responses at matins: 'Tenebrae factae sunt', 'Tradiderunt me' and 'Iesum tradidit impius'. Commissioned by Cappella Nova (director: Alan...

The Spanish composer Rafael Sánchez Mombiedro set the well-established text 'O Magnum Mysterium' on the Coming of God to music in a new and inspiring way. He plays with dynamics and strange harmonies,...

A modern interpretation and setting of the Christmas text about the Immaculate Conception by the award winning American composer Matthew Brown, who has had his choral works premiered all over the US.

A demanding large-scale work for 16-part mixed a-cappella choir. Spherical sounds and changing harmonies are in contrast to expressive interjections. First prize at the International Composition Compe...

A sonnet that contemplates a solitary figure standing between darkness and light. The poem’s imagery—marble stillness, Cleopatra’s defiant resolve, and a beacon shining through storm—suggests a quiet...

'Unter dem Mond' - der Text von A. E. Stallings beschreibt, was alles im silbernen Mondlicht passieren kann. Silberne Höhenflüge des Soprans beleuchten den schattigen, dunklen Gesamteindruck. Eine ang...

A Latvian folksong proclaiming 'Sing, daughters!' is arranged with excitement and rhythm by Latvian composer Laura Jekabsone. Originally performed by SSSAAA singers, but scored here for SSAATB voices.

Rob Dietz's setting of this traditional hymn alternates a festive and serious tone, meant to evoke both the joy and the urgency of the text that invites peace. Choirs should approach the performance o...

Jubilate Deo is set with a rhythmically vibrant and harmonically rich musical language. It features shifting meters, syncopated rhythmic figures, and bright choral textures. A vibrant and exuberant af...

Western Note is a Carnatic song from the Indian musical tradition that was written to appeal to westerners. The ear-worm of a melody is set here by Vineel Garisa Mahal with dance-like rhythms, gamakas...

Perhaps the spiritual closest associated with Norman Luboff's arranging style, this is a classic in the U.S. and abroad! Requires the fine singing of a well trained a cappella choir, high school choir...

SATB divisi. In his new setting of a traditional Latin Christmas text, Spanish composer Javier Busto has created a versatile concert gem containing varied textures and tempi. Recorded by the Handarrib...

Written for St Cecilia's Day 1694, Purcell's popular Te Deum and Jubilate in D was the first work of its kind to be scored for orchestra, and it became the model for future settings of the text by Blo...

A setting of verses from Psalm 112 (Latin text). The prize-winning work in the composers' competition held in conjunction with the 2nd Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music, 1983. Suitable for...

O Lux Beata' ('O Blessed Light') was commissioned by The Fotheringhay Singers (Marius Carney, conductor). The work, a setting of a 4th-century hymn text ascribed to St Ambrose of Milan, contrasts a pl...

A setting of Psalm 45 (46) in Latin commissioned by the Leeds Festival Chorus and first performed by them in Leeds Town Hall in March 2014, conducted by Simon Wright. The work features a variety of ch...

Kyrie is the only movement completed from a planned Mass and was left unperformed at the time of the composer's death. The edition was prepared for publication from the original manuscript by his son...

This setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem Pied Beauty was commissioned by the Rev Jim Bates, Vicar of Kingston, for the service in Kingston Parish Church celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Eli...

This anthem was commissioned in 2012 by Simon Winters to celebrate 25 years of the chamber choir Felicitas. Thinking about the unaccompanied vocal texture brought Will Todd back to his 1995 setting of...

Influenced by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) developed an English Romantic musical language of his own.This is noticeable especially in his t...

Following the Kyrie, now another part of Missa Musica Sacra by Douglas Pew, award winner at the International Composition Competition Musica Sacra Nova. Playing with friction now and then, this compos...