SKU: MN.50-9838
UPC: 688670598388. English. Scripture: Colossians 3:14-17.
Colossians 3:14-17 provides the inspiring text for this original anthem. The compositional style is warm and the mood is encouraging.
SKU: HL.14065232
SKU: AP.43592
UPC: 038081491325. English.
A unison pitch becomes a cluster chord and then blossoms into full contemporary choral harmony. Ample text painting, passing dissonance, and sensitive tempo and dynamic changes make this an excellent choice for accomplished choirs.
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.1428501
UPC: 196288202677. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.
Ken Burton's “Swing Down, Chariot,” showcased in the Jason Max Ferdinand Choral Series, intricately weaves a tapestry of musical genres intrinsic to Black American sacred music. This arrangement harmonizes African influences, quartet styles, close harmony jazz, big band, and classical elements, delivering a vibrant and diverse sonic landscape. While its entertaining aspects shine, the piece maintains a heartfelt essence, reflecting a deep yearning for freedom. Inspired by twentieth-century gospel quartets like the Fairfield Four and Golden Gate Quartet, Burton's arrangement infuses percussive articulation and dynamic flexibility. Choirs are encouraged to explore creative articulation options, ensuring a spirited and engaging rendition. Ideal for collegiate, chamber, honor, and all-state choirs, this arrangement captivates effortlessly, resonating with its rich musical essence. Excellent choice for your advanced and professional choirs. You can never go wrong with a Ken Burton arrangement or composition.
SKU: HL.48025165
UPC: 196288105145.
A beautiful short setting of the ordinary of the Latin mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus, and Agnus Dei) by emerging Cornishcomposer Becky McGlade. The Kyrie finds beauty in its simplicity, which is later echoed in the Agnus Dei. The sumptuous parallel harmony and natural melodies create an atmosphere of penitent sorrow, so central to both texts. The Gloria offers something more joyous and upbeat, yet not straying from the cleverly constructed harmony and voice leading. The emotional climax comes with the Sanctus & Benedictus, which begins with the warm texture of the full choir, and through the gentle dissonances and soaring soprano line the composer conveys something of the holiness and glory of God. Ideal for choirs looking to expand their liturgical music repertoire with a manageable but impressive new mass setting. Also appropriate for concert use.
SKU: OU.9780193413450
ISBN 9780193413450. 10 x 7 inches.
for SATB double choir unaccompanied A setting of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnet 18, Bednall's expressive work highlights this timeless text with sumptuous harmony, including pleasing tonal shifts and topical false relations. Various choral textures are explored, from the imitative lines of 'Sometime too hot', to the warm richness of the closing pages, where the choir divides into eight parts. This work is part of the New Horizons series and a piano reduction is included for rehearsal purposes.
About Oxford New Horizons
New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut of small-scale choral genres, both secular and sacred, and includes pieces for upper-voice and mixed choirs. With titles by some of the most accomplished choral composers active in Great Britain and abroad, the series introduces new repertoire and fresh talent to a broad spectrum of choirs. New Horizons features composers with growing reputations for quality composition reflecting a strong individual voice. The series is continually expanding and should be the first place to look for attractive and performable contemporary choral music.
SKU: OU.9780193439245
ISBN 9780193439245. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied. This emotive motet sets a combination of verses from Psalms 31, 48, and 71. Essentially a prayer for God's protection and guidance, the piece is characterized by pungent and mesmerizing shifts of harmony which underpin the tensions inherent in the text. It is suitable for both concert and liturgical use.
SKU: HL.49046382
UPC: 841886031753. 0.126 inches.
Magnificat is a tribute to the unaccompanied motets of favourite composers from several eras - in particular those of Dufay, the Eton Choirbook, Robert Carver, Lassus and Bach. The work is therefore full of contrast in texture, harmony, mood and pacing, and exploits the resources of unaccompanied chorus in a manner not only analogous to those already mentioned but also to ensemble or orchestral writing. Naturally - given the sentiments of the text - the mood is predominantly joyful and exuberant; but the darker implications of certain phrases in the text are not ignored. Towards the end there is a big choral explosion on one of the traditional plainsong chants for the Magnificat, before the work subsides into a coda of calm serenity. Magnificat was commissioned by the ORA choir. It is dedicated to the French composer Betsy Jolas, in celebration of her 90th birthday, and in equal celebration of our mutual love of many choral composers mentioned above.
SKU: XC.SATB2208A
9 x 6 inches.
A new arrangement of a classic Appalachian folk song, this piece is great for expressive choirs both large and small. This song eases in and out of unison, two part, and four part harmony smoothly, giving an easy transition into close harmony. This is a great piece to give your choir a little extra push for musicality-- there's room for so much more than what is written on the page!
SKU: HL.48024900
ISBN 9781784545475. UPC: 840126930696. 7.25x10.5x0.108 inches.
These jazz arrangements of well-known hymns were written for Andrew Earis and choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London for various services and BBC broadcasts from that church. The setting of “Come down, O Love divine†supplies some new harmonic moves to Vaughan Williams' lovely tune “Down Ampneyâ€, gradually adding vocal harmony through the verses, with a short descant section in the final verse. The compound-time arrangement of “God Is Love,†which can also be sung to the supplied words of Charles Wesley's hymn “Love Divine,†again adds more of Todd's iconic jazz harmonies and textures in the vocal parts with each successive verse. The setting of “Let all mortal flesh keep silence†is structured to gradually build layers over the moody piano chords and the pedal harmony. At the end the music builds to a large climax for the text “Lord most highâ€. The hymns can be performed using the supplied piano part or using the chord symbols above. Double bass may also be used in addition to piano, again following the supplied chord symbols, and parts for optional jazz ensemble are available. Performers of these hymns should feel free to include the congregation or audience in imaginative ways.
SKU: AP.48325
UPC: 038081551487. English. Traditional Irish and Old English Blessings.
Following the success of her Two Irish Blessings, Glenda Franklin shares this creative a cappella set that is ideal as a concert finale, encore, benediction, or graduation selection. Whether performed individually or in tandem, each of these brief movements offers a sincere farewell wish sung in polished choral harmony.
SKU: ST.CN29P
ISBN 9790220225550.
Choral settings of 'Lift up your heads, O ye gates' from Psalm 24 are numerous, from that of the sixteenth-century Geneva Psalter of Claude Goudimel to the present day. Unsurprisingly so, as the text has many appropriate liturgical applications. In this jubilant setting, The King of Glory, Sarah Rodgers has provided church choirs of all abilities with a truly celebratory anthem that in its writing for SATB displays many elements of choral craft, from unison and two-part textures to a satisfyingly contrapuntal full harmony. The driving, rhythmic figure in the organ accompaniment underpins and uplifts the voices, and occasional harmonic juxtapositions add delightfully unexpected moments of colour. Importantly, with a proficient organist, the anthem can be prepared with just one or two rehearsals. It is certain to be of great appeal both to choirs and to congregations.
