G. Schirmer

Based on a cantillation melody collected by the composer's father in the 1920s, this short work suggests ancient origins. The tonality reflects very little of the modes we often associate with orienta...

The composer writes: Set to a text by E. Y. 'Yip' Harburg, lyricist of the film The Wizard of Oz and the musical Finian's Rainbow, this work looks forward to 'one sweet morning' when, 'out of the flag...

Cary Ratcliff's charming and refreshing oratorio Ode to Common Things is set to poetry by Chilean writer Pablo Neruda, who, over the course of his life, wrote odes to ordinary, everyday objects, five...

Now available in an SSAA edition! After an opening that evokes a confused and troubled world, this work bursts into a sweeping attempt to drive the world's coldness away in favor of love. Flute part i...

Composed while a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, Barber's Twelve Rounds are now available for the first time in print. With detailed historical commentary and manuscript facsimile.

This 8-minute work, set entirely in Latin, recounts King David's grief at the death of his son Absalom. Opening with a fiery piano introduction, a solo tenor emerges from the echoing keyboard clusters...

Jon Washburn musically draws special, deep emotions to color this evocative text by Walter de la Mare. The mood is created through the use of a glistening piano part and a brooding choral part. Vocal...

This beautiful Sara Teasdale poem presents, initially, a comforting vision of the natural beauty of a world returning to equilibrium until we realize that it can only happen after humans are removed f...

A playful, breezy and energetic setting of the Robert Louis Stevenson poem The Swing. With a gently sweeping piano accompaniment, this piece, commissioned by Jon Washburn and his Vancouver Chamber Cho...

Written for the Paideia Women's Chorus from the Paideia School in Atlanta, Craig Hella Johnson sets the words of the poet-mystic Dorothy Walters. With four movements incorporating a variety of musical...

Composer Dominick DiOrio has been call a forward-thinking young composer, ready to tackle anything and this exciting piece definitely falls under anything. Written for the virtuosic Houston Chamber Ch...

The Whole Sea In Motion sets a prose text from Agnes Grey, a 1907 novel by British author Anne Bronte. In choosing this text to set, the composer was struck by the first sentence, which begins No lnag...

Most of us think that going viral is a 21st century phenomenon, made possible by the immediacy and ubiquity of the Internet. But Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Walter Kittredge's haunting Civil War s...

Michael Gray wrote the original energetic 3-part mixed voicing for middle school changing voices in 1980. Since then, this has been a popular selection. Now available for SATB and SA voices and with v...

Michael Gray wrote the original energetic 3-part mixed voicing for middle school changing voices in 1980. Since then, this has been a popular selection. Now available for SATB and SA voices and with v...

The great American Composer, Kirke Mechem has taken this classic folk song of unknown origin and set it for SATB chorus, baritone soloist (playing the part of the poet of this text) and piano or organ...

This is a bold reimagining of Hildegard's chant, both tune and text. Actively quoting the source material, DiOrio's setting takes Hildegard's music as a launching point from which to imagine new sonic...

Two songs originally found in the collection Reliquary of English Song, have been edited and arranged to make a wonderful short set for young singers. The first, You Gentlemen of England is a tune dat...

The American composer William Schuman (1910-1992) wrote works in virtually every musical genre, each mirroring his strong personality in their sharply defined sense of structure, line, and dynamism. T...

Arranged simply for mixed voices, clarinet and piano four-hands, the lovely Brahms cradle song becomes a work for reflection, healing and introspection, especially appropriate as a quiet encore or cho...

With a piano introduction that is both virtuosic and emotional, this Hebrew text, chosen by series editor Judith Clurman in memory of her parents, was the perfect vehicle for Michigan composer Paul Sc...

America has, for hundreds of years, been a country built on tradition, the most powerful of which may be the hope that their children might have a better life. Father/daughter songwriting team Laurie...

This setting of the poignant and evocative Christina Rossetti poem Dream Land paints dark and brooding images of shadows, stars, and sunless rivers. The center point of the poem is the sad singing of...

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