Partituras para coros

The Lord's Prayer has served as text to innumerable musical settings throughout the Christian world. None perhaps more indigenous to a specific region that this version from Trinidad, with its calypso...

Wondrous Love is one of the most beloved songs of the shape-note Sacred Harp (1844). This arrangement is based on the original version of the tune and maintains its stark quartal harmonies.

This Inuit text features free and changing meters and frequent divisi.

This Chippewa text is energized by close canonic entries.

This Sioux text is a vigorous piece with canonic imitation and some tone clustering, starting with single voice parts and expanding to full SSAATTBB texture.

This Nahuatl text is a lyrical, rhapsodic setting of a ravishing text.

This Winnebago text is a quiet meditation, featuring a soprano soloist (imitating a boy soprano).

This Tewa text is quite vigorous.

This movement concludes the larger work Earth Chants in quiet benediction.

The woman depicted in She Walks in Beauty elicits expressions of tender and gentle endearment from the poet. To accompany words like 'sweet,' 'pure,' 'soft,' 'eloquent,' the music flows gently, uninte...

In When We Two Parted, the bitterness felt by the poet when he thinks of his lost love is expressed musical in several ways.The path of love is not always sunlit. In Shades of Love, the music expresse...

Hamisha Asar are the Ladino words (the Spanish Hebrew language spoken by the Sephardic Jews) for “Tu Be'Shevat,” the Jewish holiday in the spring that celebrates the time when sap begins f...

Nothing comes easily in life, but, as poet Sarah Teasdale assures us, life holds such treasures that we must give our all and “never count the cost.”

Run Children Run is based on a field yell, from the days when the slaves sang as they worked, both to keep the work rolling, and to send each other messages of support and solidarity.

With a flowing piano accompaniment, the vocal texture is mainly homophonic, interspersed with brief contrapuntal sections. This particular poem speaks of remembering a relationship, and the need for r...

Roses I Send to You is a tender song of love and devotion expressed in turn by a woman, her lover, and together as a couple.