SKU: GI.G-3789
Text Source: Ancient Celtic prayer, adapt. Richard Proulx. Text by Richard Proulx.
Text Source: Ancient Celtic prayer.
SKU: CA.327750
ISBN 9790007168087. Key: D minor. Language: German. Text: Wagner, Richard. Text by Richard Wagner.
SKU: JK.00404
Gentle, reflective piece describing how the whiteness of winter snow can ease the soul. For mixed chorus (SATB) and piano. Perfect for your winter program. Composer: Richard W. Smith Lyricist: Elaine Christensen Difficulty: Medium Performance time: 2:00.
SKU: HL.1454734
UPC: 196288209140. 6.75x10.5 inches.
A modern poem is set to music in this choral work. Its sense of nostalgia and child-like wonder is carried along in both the text and melody, taking both the singer and listener back in time. A work of deep beauty for choirs of distinction!
SKU: HL.362069
UPC: 840126952322. 6.75x10.5x0.045 inches.
Here is a piece honoring the youth from your community. In the new Richard Bjella Choral Series, Rick, working with Philadelphia based composer Andrea Clearfield, this is an exhilerating and passionate tour de force.
SKU: HL.1454758
UPC: 196288209225. 6.75x10.5 inches.
The prayer for peace is a timeless one and is beautifully set in this work. Adult and young voices combine for a multigenerational offering, and the artful piano accompaniment and violin obbligato add a layer of uniqueness to the piece.
SKU: GI.G-7283
UPC: 785147728306. English, Latin. Text Source: Psalm 148, adapt. RP. Text by Richard Proulx. Scripture: Psalm 148.
Richard Proulx, who in recent years has given us more wonderful arrangements than original pieces, here breaks the pattern with a setting of Psalm 148. And, it is classic Proulx! The sturdy macaronic refrain for choir and assembly, leads to lilting triple meter verses for soprano then tenor, a choral verse in duple rhythm, and a return to the triple feel of the earlier, for the final verse utilizing both soloists and choir. Typically, the organ part is something organists will enjoy playing.
SKU: CA.335060
ISBN 9790007240103. Key: D minor. Language: Latin. Text: Tisserand, Jean.
SKU: GI.G-003080
UPC: 641151030807. Text by William C. Dix.
If you know Richard's gorgeous setting of Silent Night, you will no doubt want to have in your library this exquisite setting conceived for the same musical forces. The time-honored classic flourishes with Richard's lush string writing and newly arranged choral parts. This remarkably gentle and sweet setting is simply ideal for bringing out the very best sound from your choir and instrumentalists.
SKU: HL.1454754
UPC: 196288209188. 6.75x10.5 inches.
This folk ballad tells the story of a young man during the mid-1800's Irish Famine. Both heartache and the resilience of the human spirit are captured in this emotive arrangement.
SKU: HL.1157478
ISBN 9781705187166. UPC: 196288120865. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.
Setting a traditional Huayno folk song and using the native language Quechua--a language that dates back to pre-Columbian times--here is a non-idiomatic choral arrangement that will stretch the best choirs. We look to series editor Richard Bjella for authentic settings, and this certainly meets our expectations.
SKU: HL.50405140
6.75x10.5 inches.
SKU: PR.UE036990
ISBN 9783702473723. UPC: 803452070832. German.
SKU: OU.9780193953673
ISBN 9780193953673. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB choir and organ continuo Dering's dramatic setting of the text 'When David heard that Absalom was slain' makes an interesting contrast with the settings of Weelkes and Tomkins.
SKU: PR.312418710
ISBN 9781598066265. UPC: 680160618743. Octavo inches. The Devil's Verse.
To celebrate 25 years of excellence and promotion of new concert works, the New York Virtuoso Singers commissioned 25 contemporary composers for 25 new choral works, all of which now appear on their recording, 25 X 25: Twenty-Five Premieres for Twenty-Five Years. Among the 25 is Richard Wernick's The Devil's Game. Here, Wernick uses The Devil's Verse, a Latin palindrome that still puzzles us today as to its meaning, and appropriately embraces repetitive use of the verse in a musical palindrome of his own.The text is a palindrome (in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni), a rather mysterious one called The Devil’s Verse. Its origin is vague (probably Roman, but possibly Medieval) and it does not surrender its meaning easily; many scholars have fussed over it. It is a riddle as well as a palindrome, in other words a puzzle within a puzzle. My preferred translation, without going into the niceties of Latin grammar, is “We enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire.â€This music is also a palindrome, the outer parts of which are homophonic, while the turning around point in the center (where the basses enter for the first time) is a brief double canon.
SKU: AP.46744
UPC: 038081531991. English. Words adapted from poems by Sir Richard Fanshawe; Francis Beaumont; music; new words; by Jay Althouse.
Practical, timeless advice abounds in this jaunty contemporary choral with texts lifted from Renaissance-era poetry and a translation of ancient verse. The opening melody winds around the tonic triad before the B section breaks into colorful contemporary harmony in a chorale setting. Light, yet legit.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: HL.1428121
UPC: 196288202271.
Consider Richard Burchard's remarkable arrangement of “My Old Kentucky Home,” arranged for the Northwestern State University Chamber Choir under the baton of Dr. Nicholaus B. Cummins, Director of Choral Activities. Burchard's stunning arrangement promises to captivate your ears and is sure to become an unforgettable musical memory - an absolute earworm you won't want to miss! Excellent choice for school and collegiate choirs.
SKU: WD.080689557279
UPC: 080689557279.
Lord, Let Your Glory Fall, arranged by Richard Kingsmore, has a unique verse and an unforgettable chorus that pleads for God's presence just as it was at Pentecost.
SKU: CA.4062005
ISBN 9790007073916. Key: C minor. Language: Latin.
The Mass in C minor, K. 427, Mozart's Great Mass remaines a torso - a circumstance which is extremely regrettable, especially given the monumentality of this work. Mozart finished only the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Osanna, and Benedictus of the Mass. For two movements from the Credo he only completed sketches without instrumentation. In March 1785 Mozart arranged Kyrie and Gloria, supplemented by a tenor and a soprano aria, for the Italian oratorio Davide penitente. In his arrangement of the Mass in c minor, Richard Maunder added Creed wind and brass instruments to the Credo sketches. Score available separately - see item CA.4062000.
SKU: JK.00326
Doctrine and Covenants 4.
Arrangement for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano, based on scriptural text from Doctrine and Covenants 4 in of E flat. High soprano note: G.Composer: Richard W. Smith Lyricist: Susan Evans McCloud Difficulty: Medium / medium-difficult acc. Performance time: 3:45Reference: Doctrine and Covenants 4.
SKU: JK.00390
Luke 2:7, Matthew 25:31.
A gentle lullaby arranged for mixed chorus (SATB), soloist, and piano in E flat major: Jesus, Jesus, rest your head, you have got a manger bed. All the gentle folk on earth sleep in feathers at their birth.Composer: Traditional Arranger: Richard W. Smith Lyricist: Traditional Difficulty: Medium Performance time: 4:10Reference: Luke 2:7, Matthew 25:31.
SKU: PR.UE036650
ISBN 9783702474720. UPC: 803452071839.
SKU: HL.289864
UPC: 888680917302. 6.75x10.5 inches. Chris Anderson/Richard Nichols.
The words of Chris Anderson and the music of Richard Nichols have graced us with many new hymns. This collection gathers some of the best into a wonderful set.
SKU: OU.9780193953871
ISBN 9780193953871. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB unaccompanied This beautiful carol is a simple four-part setting of a fifteenth-century text with a contrasting fauxbourdon verse by Richard Lyne.
