Sheet Music Downloads by Rebecca Clarke

A setting of specially-written texts by children, the subject matter is the sun, the moon, and the stars. The songs are linked by spoken narration, resulting in a rich and vivid tapestry. Orchestral m...

This attractive and concise setting of the Mass (without Creed) has flexible scoring, being for 2-part choir (upper and lower voices), or SATB, and organ. The communion motet Tantum ergo is also for 2...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's secular text concerning music's omnipresence ('But in the darkest, meanest things there always something sings') is set with affecting and arresting simplicity.

There is also a version for organ.

Partially based on a plainsong melody, this peaceful setting of the Latin hymn text features sonorous harmonies, subtle time changes, and fluid choral homophony, with a beautiful soprano solo that flo...

Taken at a slow processional tempo this work has a predominantly canonic texture. The syncopated passages are at once sombre and sensual, and the balancing homphonic phrases achieve real power. A shor...

This is one of Clarke's many pieces on love, and one of the best. It combines the English modality of earlier times with foretastes of the adventurous chromaticism of her later work. It is a lovely pi...

This is a lilting take on the Elizabethan lute-song full of smooth Stanford-like nineteenth-century harmonies, exquisitely tempered with modal effects.

This is an appropriately aching setting of Sir Philip Sidney's poem of unending desire and longing. There are gorgeous chromatics and enharmonics and a masterful use of a triplet pattern which becomes...

Weep you no more, sad fountains is a modern take on the Elizabethan lute-song, integrating the characteristic alternations of minor and major, fondness for cross-relations, and vivid word-painting. Th...

Music, when soft voices die combines aspects of nineteenth-century English pastoral style with some of the tonal adventurousness of Vaughan Williams's Shakespeare settings. This is an exceptionally be...

Now fie on love is a rollicking glee with all the usual imitative points and a somewhat unusual allotment of brawny sarcasm. It makes an effective encore.

He that dwelleth evokes Holst and Vaughan Williams in their more visionary modes. This is especially true of the opening and closing passages with their gently bitonal effect that surrounds the highly...

Although quite short, this is one of Clarke's boldest and, in some respects, most ambitious compositions. It sets Shelley's magnificent ode to the Evening Star.

This exquisite setting for SSA unaccompanied voices of a well-known Marian motet (in Latin) was the first of Rebecca Clarke's choral works ever to be published.

With plenty of excitement and anticipation, this exuberant carol sets a medieval macronic text, featuring changing metres and a driving piano part. Also available in a version for solo low voice.

This is a compelling setting of words by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that tell how the power of song can overcome dark times. The composer brings this powerful text...

Chilcott's rare gift for crafting the most poignant and beguiling melodies is rarely more apparent than in his setting of this enchanting medieval poem. Also available in versions for solo high voice...

A medieval English carol for solo baritone and unaccompanied ATBarB. The setting is full of gentle hemiola and canonic effects, and makes much use of parallel sixths and thirds.

Jackson effectively intersperses sonorous polyphonic passages for full choir with spoken text and murmuring ostinato motifs in free time.