Intermediate Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

An arrangement of the second movement of Stephen Chatman's A Song of Joys. The piano accompaniment replicates pitches within an extensive set of Chinese bao gongs featured in the original version. The...

American blues icon Ruthie Foster released Mama Said on her 2007 recording The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster. The lyrics are a mother ™s advice to her daughter, warning her to -learn how to pray and to -fa...

A haunting setting which is definitely for a reflective, memorial or commemorative type of occasion. The text is by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and is set for SATB chorus (unaccompanied, no divisi.) D minor...

Psalm 23 is dedicated to the memory of Carolyn Argento (1930-2006).

As part of my duties as composer-in-residence at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas, I composed this brief work-in effect, a choral fanfare-for the beginning of the 2015 Christmas Eve Ma...

If Ye Love Me was composed as a reflective commentary on the well-known motet by Thomas Tallis (1505 1585). Homophony predominates in the first section but with clusters rather than the traditional ha...

This gentle life lesson and setting begins with the chorus acting as accompaniment to the soloist. Then the sopranos pick up the mantle of the soloist and the chorus sings the words together. The fina...

This setting pokes fun at all of the ways in which phrases about money are 'coined. ' The music is appropriately uncomplicated, and nearly always homophonic.

As the composer suggests in his program notes, the poem to which this music is set may 'appear on surface as being rather flippant but, underneath, is deadly serious. ' The same may be said of the mos...

A setting of the most famous passage from the Book of Ruth (Ruth 1:16-17) opens with a gentle polyphonic section for the chorus. The soprano joins the choir for the twice-repeated middle section of th...

The conductor of Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, asked the composer to write a work based on a text about The Blessed Virgin Mary. The final poem in Petrarch's most famous work, Il Canzoniere, wa...

A soaring, joyful, unaccompanied motet in F major. (Keyboard reduction provided.) Notated on five staves with the soprano 1 and 2 on their own staves. However, all parts below that also divide very oc...

The text for this carol was inspired by the priest Phillips Brooks' visit to Bethlehem in 1895. It was set to music by his organist at Trinity Church, Boston, Lewis Redner, in 1868. The arrangement us...

The 18th-century poem, Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree, found its way into an American hymnal compiled by Joshua Smith in 1784. Most often classified as a carol. A soprano soloist introduces the simple m...