Boosey & Hawkes

Adapted from a traditional African-American chant, this is – in the composer's words – a “soulful piledriver with a monster backbeat. ” Plentiful but manageable divisi writing...

This is a highly emotional and powerful piece for women's choir. Composer Boerger asks the chorus to produce the sound of bereavement when it first strikes. A total commitment to the emotions as maste...

By choosing to set this text, which speaks of charity and the love of God, for treble voices, Douglas Pew seeks to create images of celestial bodies and celestial spheres where this type of sacred lov...

Munoera' (Sanctus) is part of the Shona Mass, an original work composed in the spirit of music heard at the Episcopal Cathedral in Harare, Zimbabwe. The text is a combination of Shona and liturgical L...

Lee Kesselman has created a stunning fanfare-like concert opener of short duration, specifically intended for the Allegro Con Brio's (Kansas City area) tour to Italy. Non-pitched bells are added to an...

Taking advantage of the ancient and at the same time relevant musical style we know as Chant, Stephen Hatfiled has created a Funky, rhythmic, modern look at musical styles and how reality and the digi...

Commissioned by the 2012 ACDA Women's Choir R&S Commissioning Consortium, the entire piece drives toward the last line of the Stacy Gnall poem 'big brother, I am catching up to you.' One long, rhythmi...

Written for the Wheaton College Christmas Festival, this work with a text by Christian mystic, Hildegard of Bingen, should feel very free, personal and almost improvisational. The close harmony requir...

Dies ist eine aufregende Bearbeitung für zwei Chorstimmen a cappella eines traditionellen amerikanischen Volksliedes. Dabei kann der Gesang optional mit Handklatschen und Bodypercussion begleitet werd...

This folk song arrangement expresses the dispersed Jewish community's hope for reunion 'next year in Jerusalem.” It is comprised of two distinct sections: a newly-composed, sorrowful theme, express...

Written in a Foundation for Small Voices song-writing workshop hosted by the Cincinnati Children's Choir, the student's message is loud and clear - 'Whatever your journey, whatever your beliefs, whate...

The title of Ain't That News is a tribute to the superb Staple Singers, who dang a piece by that name, not otherwise quoted in this chart. The opening seven measures are an adaptation of an old Paul R...

Several variants of this famous English folk ballad are incorporated into this evocative setting for women's voices. First performed by the Varsity Women's Choir of Appleton North High School, James H...

Eine wunderschöne, kurze Vertonung des lateinische Messtextes (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus, Agnus Dei) der aufstrebenden Komponistin Becky McGlade aus Cornwall. Das Kyrie besticht durch seine...

Media vita was commissioned in 2015 by the English vocal ensemble, Siglo de Oro, and their director Patrick Allies to celebrate 500 years since the birth of the English Renaissance composer, John Shep...

This liturgical setting dates from 1977, but has recently been released by the composer. Latin text: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, At the conclusion. Taut scoring (with some divisi) contains both...

Arrangement of folk texts and melodies from Wladyslaw Skierkowski's collection, 'Kurpian Forest in Song' (1928-1934). Polish text. Suitable for intermediate standard choirs.

A selection of five songs from Jan Siedlecki's Church Hymn-book (1878: 1928 edition), in four of which Górecki faithfully sets the original melodies. Polish text. Suitable for intermediate standard ch...

A touching setting of an anonymous love poem in broad Scots, this part-song was composed for the wedding of some friends of the composer. A welcome addition to the canon of MacMillan's secular choral...

adapted from All Night Vigil (Vespers)

With both an English and a Swedish text, this simple tune and comforting text are perfect for general church services or the concert stage. The melody is passed around from one voice part to another b...