SKU: AP.48899
UPC: 038081562230. English. Traditional Shaker Song.
This creative arrangement of the well-known Shaker song passes the traditional tune to every voice part, using the others to support the buoyant melody. Scored for a mixed choir with congas, claves, and maracas, Mark's setting opens with a bit of suspense that soon breaks into a bright a cappella feature. Some rhythmic augmentation provides a warm center before returning to the vibrant feel. Fans will note a few additional lyrics that celebrate the gift to be loving, light, hopeful, and true. A final flourish fans out from the only unison measure into a resounding G major chord.
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: CF.CPS8
ISBN 9780825839962. UPC: 798408039967. 9 X 12 inches. Key: C minor.
Starting from a lovely and haunting melody introduced by the clarinets, Carl Strommen's Invocation and Dance, in two contrasting sections, is an object lesson in how to write memorably for young musicians using simple, straightforward and appealing material. The fast second section begins with some wonderful quiet percussion writing and the phrase and meter shifting versions of the original tune cleverly vary it before leading to the fully-scored return of the melody in its original form. This selection is contest and festival material of the highest quality. Duration: 4'40.
SKU: CF.CPS100
ISBN 9780825870668. UPC: 798408070663.
Explosive ensemble phrases and aggressive percussion accompaniment accentuate the opening of Pacheco Pass, a dynamic new composition from established composer Alan Lee Silva. Divided into three sectionsùfast, slow, fastùthe piece begins with a noble brass melody, transitions to a tender slow movement featuring woodwind solos, and reprises the opening brass melody.
SKU: GI.G-8302
UPC: 785147830207. English. Text Source: Psalm 23, Bay Psalm Book, 1640. Scripture: Psalm 23.
The Shaker-like character of the melody in this treatment of “Psalm 23†from the Bay Psalm Book, 1640, rises steadily to a triumphant climax, moving from an a cappella statement of the melody, mounting through more complex harmonic textures toward its powerful end.
SKU: CF.CPS100F
ISBN 9780825870675. UPC: 798408070670.
Explosive ensemble phrases and aggressive percussion accompaniment accentuate the opening of Pacheco Pass, a dynamic new composition from established composer Alan Lee Silva. Divided into three sections - fast, slow, fast - the piece begins with a noble brass melody, transitions to a tender slow movement featuring woodwind solos, and reprises the opening brass melody.
