Boosey & Hawkes

This short, rhythmical work is inspired by an area of McGlade's native Cornwall and uses the text of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. The area, where a common meets the sea, is home to ma...

Composer’s note Tantum Ergo should have a chant-like feel especially on the repeated pitches. Keep the tempo flexible to enable effective contrast in dynamics and a sustained sound throughout. The acc...

Composer’s note O sacrum convivium was written in 2007 - it is one of my earliest choral compositions. Olivier Messiaen’s setting had a profound impact on me as a young chorister. As John Cooper, the...

Composer’s note O sacrum convivium was written in 2007 - it is one of my earliest choral compositions. Olivier Messiaen’s setting had a profound impact on me as a young chorister. As John Cooper, the...

Este pequeño himno para coro sin acompañamiento fue escrito como homenaje a Alexander Goehr en su 50 cumpleaños. Se trata de un poema de Robert Bridges que pone palabras en boca del ciego John Milton,...

Based on a traditional Alentejo carol from southern Portugal, this music of the Magnificat is gentle, soothing, and almost hypnotic. Each verse is treated differently, giving the solo voice and all th...

SATB (divisi) a cappella

Carol of the Ladder is a limpid andante whose transparent texture and tone of sweet melancholy creates a meditative calm. Although technically unsophisticated on the surface, this arrangement offers m...

Set to a beautiful old hymn tune from an 1855 collection, this piece offers much scope for phrasing and word painting as the singers recreate the setting from outside the tomb, and explore the psychol...

The path of love is not always sunlit. In Shades of Love, the music expresses a variety of emotions brought on by diverse stages of love: ecstasy, tenderness, bitterness, wistfulness, eternal devotion...

While the sopranos convey the text of the first half of Remember, the lower three voices softly echo the words 'remember me” like fleeting glimpses of past memories. The harmonic implications are rath...

The tune for Annabel Lee is an original one, but is treated as a folk song.The path of love is not always sunlit. In Shades of Love, the music expresses a variety of emotions brought on by diverse sta...

The two pieces of this set, scored for SATB (divisi) a cappella and Baritone & Mezzo-Soprano Soli, are arrangements of folk songs from the Ukranian and Doukhobor traditions.

This We Know is thoughtful, earnest and subdued. The technical demands are not great, but musical and artistic sensitivity are paramount.

La Point expertly colors the expression of this traditional Latin text through a variety of compositional techniques as it evolves from a hollow, chant-like opening statement, to an urgent cry, the di...

Chorpartitur - mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probenzwecken.

Esta popular y juguetona primera selección de las Tres composiciones corales de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas vuelve a imprimirse.

With music evoking fanfares and introspective feelings alike, this setting of Psalm 8 expresses praise for God and the honor of being human.

The rich harmonies and natural, unstructured meter in this touching piece capture the sentiments of the text, which cautions us to "cast away the works of darkness" and "put on the armor of light." A...