SKU: CA.338830
ISBN 9790007303686. Key: F lydian. Latin.
This gradual for the Feast of Holy Church Fathers was composed in 1879. The Lydian setting is, as Bruckner himself said, without sharps, without flats, without triads on the 7th step, without six-four chords, without the sounds of fourths or fifths.
SKU: CA.4011430
ISBN 9790007062347. Key: F lydian. Language: Latin/English.
This gradual for the Feast of Holy Church Fathers was composed in 1879. The Lydian setting is, as Bruckner himself said, without sharps, without flats, without triads on the 7th step, without six-four chords, without the sounds of fourths or fifths..
SKU: HL.49044857
ISBN 9790001154444. UPC: 841886026537. 7.5x10.75 inches. Latin.
Szymon Godziemba-Trytek, born in Poland in 1988, already is one of the acclaimed choral composers of our time and has been awarded numerous prizes at national and international composition competitions, as e.g. in 2014 for his 'Miserere mei Deus, miserere mei', a musical setting of Psalm 56 for eight-part mixed a-cappella choir. It is the effective antiphony between female and male voices, four-part homophonic passages including four bars for two solo sopranos, rich dynamic nuances, staggered entries of the voices in imitation, and sound elements to be performed in an individual loop-like manner that make this sacred choral work special. For this work, the young composer was awarded the 3rd prize at the Composition Competition Musica Sacra.
SKU: SU.80400220
SSAATTBB Chorus & HarpDuration: 3:00 Commissioned by: the William Ferris ChoraleDedication: Four Carols for ChristmasPremiered by: William Ferris Chorale, William Ferris, Conductor, Chicago, IL, December 6, 1985Copyright 1985Text author: Anonymous, 16th century Published by: Paulus Publications (SP246) Minimum order quantity: 8 copies. To order quantities fewer than 8.
SKU: PE.EP68578
ISBN 9790300759630. English.
Of Time and Passing (2016) is a cycle of three choral songs written specifically for the London-based ensemble, VOCES8, taking into consideration their versatilityand ability to beautifully intone a range of vocal colors with precision and grace.
The first song, I. Life, sets my translation of the poem A Vida by Brazilian poet Olavo Bilac (1865-1918), a poet I discovered while studying Brazilian Portuguese at the University of Michigan. I was drawn both to the simplicity of the text and to the possibilities of teasing out dual contrasting moods. In the beginning and end, this song explores a texture that is very much alive: wave-like contours, throbbing sounds, and plenty of flowing movement. Rising eighth-note motives in particular emphasize the fleetingness of life. But in the middle of the song, the listener is given a slowed-down atmosphere to savor life's beauty.
II. To Everything a Season capitalizes on VOCES8's ability to effectively interpret popular genres a cappella. This ancient text is taken from Ecclesiastes (dated around 300 B.C.) but I set it to a modern, rhythmically-regular and percussive pop-style idiom. Since popular music in whatever era is designedto appeal to a specific ?present time?, it is by its very nature ephemeral, and therefore seemed an apt metaphor to evoke the transitory nature of seasons.
III. Into Your Hands, confines the writing into no more than four parts, often with octave unisons.This creates a more direct and word-focused setting in which the Psalmist?s urgent words are placed at the forefront. Largely homophonic, this song is at times chorale-like, at times madrigal-like,finally relinquishing it?s tension into peaceful rest, proclaiming ?You have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God??
- Daniel Knaggs
SKU: OU.9780193387263
ISBN 9780193387263. 12 x 8 inches.
For SSAATTBB unaccompanied Setting text recorded in an early fourteenth-century Cambridge manuscript, this work presents evocative solo passages above sustained notes, and rich multi-layered canon-like passages in the upper voices.
SKU: GI.G-9620
UPC: 785147962007. Latin. Text Source: Fourth Responsory at Matins, Christmas Day.
