Gwyneth Walker: Partituras medio

A haunting setting which is definitely for a reflective, memorial or commemorative type of occasion. The text is by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and is set for SATB chorus (unaccompanied, no divisi.) D minor...

Commissioned by a choral society in memory of their beloved accompanist, this is an SATB divisi unaccompanied setting of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The text remembers a departed friend through...

Walt Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing” (excerpted from Leaves of Grass), with its many references to men singing at their work, seems best suited to the direct and forceful character of unaccomp...

A charming duet (or duel!) between a woman (who loves music) and a man (who loves poetry). Ah, the battle between Dowland and Spencer, the rivalry between the lute and the couplets! They both survive…

Touching the Infinite Sky is a choral adaptation (for Men's Chorus with Tenor Soloist) of the composer's solo song cycle, Songs from the High Sierra, for High Voice and Piano. The original songs were...

The familiar melody and text are adapted and blended with original composition to create a highly original setting and a new twist on the well-loved hymn Amazing Grace.

An epic poem by Emerson that talks about music as mystery. The text is matched with equally mysterious music. A part of a larger work entitled “Sing Evermore.”

This piece gives occasion to explore complex harmonies as an expression of the mystery of chords. These are added-tone sonorities—clusters. The author searches for that perfect peace, the one lost cho...

Based on a poem by African American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906). The bird, a prisoner in his cage, beats his wing until the blood is red on the cruel bars. He sings a plea, to Heaven, for he...

A short flute introduction of music floating across the sky opens “Sky-Born Music.” The poet (Emerson) writes that music is heard not only in places of beauty, but also in the mud, the dark, in the da...

The texts for these songs span many centuries and have the common thread of praising music for its power —from Richard Barnfield”s “In Praise of Music and Poetry” (published in 1598) to the uplifting...