Intermediate Sheet Music from ECS Publishing

Nine separate songs, which can be performed individually, yet are ordered for a cohesive flow. The texts span many centuries (1598-1919), and all celebrate music, specifically the joys of singing. Per...

Released in 2007, this original setting of an anonymous 19th-century text is written in verse-anthem style. The scoring for chorus, harp, and keyboard makes it an ideal companion piece for Britten's A...

Released in 2007, this original setting of an anonymous 19th-century text is written in verse-anthem style. The scoring for chorus, harp, and keyboard makes it an ideal companion piece for Britten's A...

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...

Commissioned by Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to celebrate the service of William H. Mathis, Minister of Music and Fine Arts. It was first performed on June 11, 20...

The well-known poet, Christina Rossetti, provides this text for Michaelmas, the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels (September 29). Broad Anglican-styled vocal lines, harmonies and a majestic organ...

This simple but tender setting of The Lord's Prayer features a cantor who intones the text on a single note, and a chorus that echoes the text with rich chords. Composed in 2010 for Stephen Kennedy an...

Longfellow's poem, The Day is Done, speaks of evening as the time when poetry and music come alive and soothe the cares of day. The musical setting presents the opening lyrics in the children's voices...

This is the central movement of Angel of Light, a cantata based on Shaker themes. A dancing and playful rhythmic ride, it is ideal as a light-hearted opening or closing piece. The text dates from 1844...

Commissioned in 2010 to be performed alongside Gabriel Faure's Requiem, and utilizes the same combination of instruments. The texts for Songs for the Journey have a particularly personal nature. The f...

This movement from Songs for the Journey has a text adapted from the poem 'Epitaph' by Merrit Malloy, 'When all that's left of me is love, give me away. ' Duration: 3:00

This final movement of the larger work Songs for the Journey is set to the traditional blessing, 'May the road rise up to meet you. '

The opening lines, 'Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me. ', reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale's poem. Paired voices initially express contrapuntal melodic lin...

Stephen Chatman's setting of Sara Teasdale's whimsical poem pertaining to a brown-thrush, April, love and kisses, emulates the meaning, strict rhythm, rhyme and strophic structure of the text. The sof...

Sara Teasdale's poem, Oh day of fire and sun, suggests a loud, fast musical setting. The syncopated homo-phonic choral texture, with high tessituras, exudes drama and excitement: it balances the expan...

Sara Teasdale's poem, The Mystery, depicts deep lasting love - 'Your eyes drink of me' and 'We have long been lovers'. It also raises a question - 'Can I ever know you / Or you know me?' Stephen Chatm...

The opening line of Sara Teasdale ™s poem, After Love, -There is no magic any more, establishes the theme of vanishing love. Stephen Chatman ™s setting of the poignant text, in the dark key of D flat...

This piece is a fast, joyous outburst. The initial lines, 'I am wild, I will sing to the trees' set the jubilant tone. The perpetual motion of the syllabic step-wise vocal lines is punctuated by stacc...

The opening lines, 'Listen, I love you. Do not turn your face / Nor touch me. ', reflect the somber feelings encompassing Sara Teasdale's poem. Paired voices initially express contrapuntal melodic lin...

Stephen Chatman's setting of Sara Teasdale's whimsical poem pertaining to a brown-thrush, April, love and kisses, emulates the meaning, strict rhythm, rhyme and strophic structure of the text. The sof...

Sara Teasdale's poem, Oh day of fire and sun, suggests a loud, fast musical setting. The syncopated homo-phonic choral texture, with high tessituras, exudes drama and excitement: it balances the expan...