Format : Octavo
SKU: FP.FWS10
ISBN 979-0-57050-321-6.
The collected songs for voice and piano of aclaimed choral conductor and arranger Stephen Wilkinson. This album includes settings of Marvell's poem The Garden, a joyful expression of horticultural delights that cleverly combines an almost atonal idiom with elements of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. The title work The Sunlight on the Garden is a setting of the MacNeice poem of the same name, and evokes darker moods of wartime by the use of a constantly evolving harmonic palette. In the field of choral music, Stephen Wilkinson is a genius. (Yorkshire Post) Simply a great choral conductor (South China Times) No praise could overstate the merits of Stephen Wilkinson's direction (The Guardian).
SKU: HL.1224660
UPC: 196288143635. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.
Now available for treble voices. Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot John Magee wrote his popular poem ââ¬ÅHigh Flightââ¬Â when he was just 19 years old. In the poem, he describes the delirious feeling of wheeling and soaring, and an intimate connection with the divine. Setting these words, the composer's music soars and dives and floats and reflects the joy this young pilot experienced from the pilot's chair.
SKU: HL.1262457
UPC: 196288158332. 6.75x10.5x0.019 inches. Acts 26:18, Exodus 20:3, Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 6:14.
Exquisite musical writing paired with illuminating words of faith. This sacred tone poem is perfect for the season of Pentecost. Delicate piano writing adorns the winsome theme with shimmering beauty, and the expressive yet approachable vocal writing invites groups of every size to explore this worshipful gem.
SKU: BT.SY-2909
German-English.
With appealing melodies that would be right at home in catchy pop songs, Giuseppe Di Girolamoâ??s Guitar Poems indulges in the overwhelming beauty of the sound of the acoustic guitar. This publication contains all twelve pieces from Letters for You, supplemented by eight newly-composed titles that complete the collection. The pieces are presented progressively and contain comprehensive fingerings to make them as technically accessible as possible. Guitar Poems also includes first-rate demo recordings of all the pieces, performed especially for this edition by the young concert guitarist and international prize-winner Julia Trintschuk.Man schwelgt in der ganzen Klangschönheit der akustischen Gitarre und in eingängigen Melodien, die aus guten Pop-Songs stammen könnten: Das ist Guitar Poems von Giuseppe Di Girolamo. Die Ausgabe enthält sämtliche zwölf Stücke aus Letters for You, ergänzt um acht neu komponierte Titel, welche die Sammlung ideal abrunden. Alle Stücke wurden progressiv angeordnet und mit Fingersätzen versehen, um sie technisch noch leichter zugänglich zu machen. Ein zusätzliches Bonbon von Guitar Poems sind die erstklassigen Demo-Aufnahmen aller Stücke, die von der jungen Konzertgitarristin und mehrfachen internationalen Preisträgerin Julia Trintschuk eigens für diese Ausgabe eingespielt wurden.
SKU: HL.220367
ISBN 9781458419132. UPC: 884088623456. 8.5x11 inches.
Commissioned and premiered by the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, conducted by Paul Rardin for its 150th-anniversary celebration. This piece is a 10-minute cycle for men's chorus and piano featuring the poetry of University of Michigan students and alumni.
SKU: FG.55011-484-5
ISBN 9790550114845.
In January 1999, Nieminen worked with his oboe piece Elegy for Agatha. The work kept running through his mind. Its musically intimate and intriguing setting seemed to include sufficient elements for explicating a bigger whole. The poem by Hannele Huovi was the inspiration of the sequel: Kuulen virtaavaa valoa ja se on pimeys (I can here streaming light and it is darkness). In his work, Nieminen also looks back on his days in military service. The mental pictures created decades ago on guard during winter frost amid silence combined with Huovi's poem took a musical shape. I Hear Streaming Light (1999) for the String Quartet was created out of these ideas, which together with Elegy for Agatha constitute a whole called I Can Hear Northern Lights. All musical material and melodic themes of the string quartet piece originate from Elegy for Agatha but they do not appear in their original forms.
SKU: HL.50499057
SKU: CF.CM9707
ISBN 9781491160121. UPC: 680160918720. Key: Db major. John Gillespie Magee. Poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Just weeks after his nineteenth birthday, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. wrote the poem High Flight while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force. The year was 1941, and World War II was culminating toward its darkest chapters. Magee had just completed his seventh flight in the iconic Spitfire Mk I fighter plane, soaring to heights well above 30,000 feet. These high altitude exercises supplied his inspiration for the poem, which describes the long, delirious, burning blue and having touched the face of God. Tragically, Magee died in a training exercise just months after writing High Flight. His words, however, live on to lift our hearts and stir the imagination. After you have learned High Flight, ask yourself the following questions: Are you singing the text clearly and articulately? Are you properly stressing the important syllables and backing off of non-stressed syllables? Is there a sense of energy throughout the piece, in both the lyrical, flowing sections and the up-tempo, faster sections? Are you also singing with a sense of energy no matter what the dynamic marking? Are you singing phrases with proper breath support and a sense of rise and fall to the phrase?.Just weeks after his nineteenth birthday, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. wrote the poem High Flight while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force. The year was 1941, and World War II was culminating toward its darkest chapters. Magee had just completed his seventh flight in the iconic Spitfire Mk I fighter plane, soaring to heights well above 30,000 feet. These high altitude exercises supplied his inspiration for the poem, which describes “the long, delirious, burning blue†and having “touched the face of God.â€Tragically, Magee died in a training exercise just months after writing High Flight. His words, however, live on to lift our hearts and stir the imagination. After you have learned High Flight, ask yourself the following questions: Are you singing the text clearly and articulately? Are you properly stressing the important syllables and backing off of non-stressed syllables? Is there a sense of energy throughout the piece, in both the lyrical, flowing sections and the up-tempo, faster sections? Are you also singing with a sense of energy no matter what the dynamic marking? Are you singing phrases with proper breath support and a sense of rise and fall to the phrase?
SKU: PE.TSGB026S
UPC: 038081585109.
The Sacred Spheres by Tyler S. Grant is written in two contrasting movements. The title of the first movement, From Harmony, from heav'nly harmony..., comes directly from the first line of John Dryden's poem, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. The first few notes musically depict the beginning of the universal framework described in the text through delicate textures and orchestrations that develop as the movement progresses. The second stanza of the poem highlights the capacity for musical elements to inspire passion, which is represented at the climax of the first movement. The second movement, Cries, hark the foe comes, picks up the poem from the third stanza, highlighting the spectrum of emotions that can be summoned by various instruments. The beginning of the movement highlights the trumpet's loud clangor along with drums that inspire war and conflict. The movement transitions to a section of mourning through the sound of a warbling flute. The ending of the movement combines the final stanzas along with the Grand Chorus to recapitulate earlier material and create a celebratory and impactful finale. Commissioned by a consortium of bands in honor of Randall O. Coleman; Recorded by the Kennesaw State University Wind Ensemble.
SKU: HL.49045598
ISBN 9790001165709. 0.196 inches.
Musicians onstage stand in the limelight and enjoy their fame whereas after performance they become shrouded in a strange fog of isolation. Light is associated with ascent and descent: it can lead into brightness, but equally into darkness. Light can illuminate and yet bedazzling; fog stands for insecurity, uncertainty and anxiety ... but also for mysticism and wafting dreams. Somehow time stands still...
SKU: MN.56-0054
UPC: 688670220579. English.
Arranged for SATB choir, two keyboards, strings, and optional harp, with soprano, tenor (optional) and baritone soloists, this fresh and unorthodox interpretation reflects on the words of the Latin Mass by juxtaposing them with poems in English. This movement has no soprano part, it is soloist above and ATB below, giving a rich, dark quality to the music. The tenors and basses (divisi) begin this movement, declaiming “Dies irae, dies illa.†Two soloists begin in the “Flanders fields†text above. There is an option for three soloists as the piece evolves. (Soprano, tenor and baritone, the composer gives some options for this.) Soon the choir takes up the poem, yet the Latin text occasionally appears and continues, moving toward a climax on the text “We are the Dead, Short days ago We lived.†As the music descends from the high point, the English poem continues, with the choir very softly commenting “Dies irae†as the movement ends. Duration 5:36.
SKU: OU.9780193525733
ISBN 9780193525733. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATB double choir unaccompanied Lightly come or lightly go is a playful setting of James Joyce's poem of the same name for SATB double choir. The two choirs portray the conflicting emotions expressed in the poem demonstrated by the closing line: Love and laughter song-confessed When the heart is heaviest.
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: CF.YPS211F
ISBN 9781491152980. UPC: 680160910489.
A Certain Slant of Light is inspired by the introspective mood created by the rays of light on a dark cloudy day. A colorful, murmuring introduction is followed by a rich main theme in a minor key. It is a well-scored and fresh-sounding piece that will help young bands enhance their musicality.Rays of light against the dark of a cloudy day, or these same rays of light as they penetrate a dark room in late afternoon can create a mood of introspection and make us pause to reflect on the nature of life, loss and hope. A Certain Slant of Light is inspired by the title, but does not depict the actual poem There is a Certain Slant of Light by Emily Dickinson.A Certain Slant of Light opens with a colorful murmuring introduction followed immediately by a statement of the main theme of the piece. The opening briefly returns, followed by a setting of the melody in flute with woodwind accompaniment. The opening then returns and grows to a climax built on variations of the main theme. The piece fades to silence with a soft echo of the opening murmuring material.I enjoyed writing this piece and hope your students will enjoy playing these contrasting styles and that you will find the piece beneficial in teaching important musical concepts.Peter Terry, 2018.
SKU: CF.YPS211
ISBN 9781491152300. UPC: 680160909803. Key: F major.
SKU: CF.WE21
ISBN 9781491144763. UPC: 680160902262. 9 x 12 inches. Key: Db major.
The inspirational foundation is the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. Through five movements, each named after a phrase from the poem, Hedwig builds his dialogue slowly in intensity. The music moves, generally, from darkness to light, with occasional moments of reflection and conflict along the way as the drama unfolds...The musical language combines elements of traditional musical melody and tonality, with atonality, minimalism, and even hints of jazz...traces of traditional religious liturgical musical forms and idioms, as well. (Chattanooga Symphony and Opera program notes) For advanced performers.
SKU: CF.WE21F
ISBN 9781491144947. UPC: 680160902446. 9 x 12 inches. Key: Db major.
SKU: SU.27120140
A song cycle based on poems of Lawrence Ferlinghetti from his book titled How to Paint Sunlight. The settings are of The Changing Light, Big Sur Light, The Moon Stayed Full Last Month, and Dictionaries of Light.Soprano & Piano Duration: 16' Composed: 2016 Published by: Lapis Island Press.
SKU: HL.49019234
ISBN 9790001187220. UPC: 884088907563. 9.0x12.0x0.07 inches. German.
Again and again, there happen to be possibilities to bring early and previously unpublished music by B. A. Zimmermann to light - as is the case with this 'Song of Abelone' on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke which Zimmermann set to music in 1939. The recording of all songs of the composer is now followed by a printed edition - an interesting insight into the early 'composition workshop' of Zimmermann.
SKU: MN.56-0051
UPC: 688670220548. English.
Arranged for SATB choir, two keyboards, strings, and optional harp, with soprano, tenor (optional) and baritone soloists, this fresh and unorthodox interpretation reflects on the words of the Latin Mass by juxtaposing them with poems in English. Set entirely for a soloist (soprano, tenor, or baritone) above choir accompaniment, this movement has no Latin text; the English text is a poem by Ann Thorp (“I have to believe That you still exist Somewhereâ€). This movement stands entirely on its own as a beautiful anthem of comfort and assurance. Duration 3:07.
SKU: CL.012-4693-00
Infectiously rhythmic and energizing, Swirling in the Light Bulbs is a refreshing addition to any concert program! Conjuring images of an electrical current through swirling melodic lines and irresistible grooves, this engaging selection explores the wonder of harnessed energy. Swirling in the Light Bulbs is inspired by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins’s take on this often overlooked modern miracle. In his poem August, Collins writes and time to offer some thanks to the electricity swirling in the light bulbs. Allow audiences to be captivated as your ensemble generates a relentless pulse and builds exhilarating sonic momentum before a whimsically abrupt ending signals the band powering off..