Choral Music From Latin America - Vol. 1. A collection of 14 vibrant choral pieces from Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Brazil. Covering a range of styles from cumbia to Cuban son, this music is full of the characteristic rhythms and melodies which capture the unique vitality of Latin America. With background information, translations and pronunciation guides, enabling performers to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of Latin music, this collection provides a great addition to the repertoire for any choral concert. A varied collection of mostly secular music, with some sacred pieces and carols Easy to advanced level Includes introductions to the songs, translations of all texts Audio samples for many of the pieces available online/ Recueil / Choeur Mixte SATB

Orchestral Accompaniment Score-This spiritual extended work uses the liturgical Latin text. The four movements bring us on a metaphysical journey from the heavens to earth from the echo of ?The Spheres? (Kyrie) to ?Identity & The Ground? (Sanctus) with its earthly themes. Neither expressly sacred nor secular this is an exquisite work for advanced high school level and beyond. Available separately: SSAATTBB String Orchestra (Full Score and Parts) String Orchestra (Full Score only). Duration: ca. 32:00.

The Chester Books Of Madrigals offer an exciting collection of secular European madrigals, partsongs and rounds from the 16th and early 17th centuries, newly edited from early sources by Anthony G. Petti, who contributes copious historical notes to each volume. <br>The majority of the settings are for SATB and simplified keyboard reductions. Texts are in the original languages, with an English translation (for non-English texts) provided at the head of each piece. / Classique / Partition /

Ola Gjeilo has pulled from his Norwegian heritage and used the lovely Solrenning Sæle tune to set a new text by Charles Anthony Silvestri. The text speaks of winter as a time of reset - a breath before the rebirth of spring. An excellent secular work for your winter concert. / SSAATTBB

An all-star writing team created this beautiful gospel-style song based on a secular text spun from the river-is-life metaphor. River in Judea is suitable for virtually any performance. Perfect for graduation.

This secular collection is a fantastic resource for experiencing the music of the Renaissance. The six well-known and representative works are: April Is in My Mistress' Face (Thomas Morley) Bonjour mon coeur (Orlando di Lasso) Innsbruck I Now Must Leave Thee (Innsbruck ich muss dich lassen) (Heinrich Isaac) Je le vous dirai (Pierre Certon) Music Most Wondrous Lovely Art (Johann Jeep) What If I Never Speed (John Dowland).Available separately: SATB a cappella.

Peter BucknellThe skill of the designer the wide knowledge of the historian of drama and the practical experience of the director come together in this book in which the author draws the story of early dramatic presentation from the early Middle Ages to the Elizabethan theatre tracing its origins in entertainment and ritual sacred and secular. A book for students of all ages... and anyone with a love of the theatre.ISBN 0 85249 444 0

These three pieces for cello and piano are meditations – personal secular and musical – on images from religious poetry. The title of No. 1 Angels bending near the earth comes from a carol which begins‘It came upon the midnight clear’ by the Massachusetts pastor and poet Edmund Sears. The full reference is to “angels bending near the earth/to touch their harps of gold” and this is the inspiration forthe music with piano arpeggios swooping down over the rich central band of sound produced by the cello. No. 2’s title In death’s dark vale is a brief paraphrase (from a Scottish hymnal) of Psalm 23; thefull quotation is “yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil”. The image here is of human life lived against the prospect of impending death. The cello plays a hasty self-absorbed continuo whilst around it piano motifs and chords of different height and depth create an evolving backdrop. No. 3 O sapientia is the only movement which quotes a musical original; Hildegard ofBingen’s hymn O virtus sapientiae –“O strength of wisdom”. This is a calm elegaic set of variations for the cello on Hildegard’s melody accompanied by mostly bright optimistic refl ections from thepiano. Commissioned by cellist Jonathan Miller of Boston MA. First performance on 23 September 2016 at Hamilton Hall Salem MA by Jonathan Miller (cello) and Randall Hodgkinson (piano)