Partituras de coro

Chorpartitur (Zulu) 1

My Days are Gone relies for its expression on the text on a contrast of major triads and minor seconds and open quartal and quintal structures. With occasional sections of imitation, it contrasts imit...

A flowing piano accompaniment sets the gentle, expectant mood of this piece, returning in each section with further development and ornamentation, inspiring and deepening a sense of awe and Divine ecs...

Autumn Song is a setting of a poem by Emily Dickinson, which depicts the season's onset as a charming change of venue and dress. The wit and conciseness of Dickinson's imagery inspired the similarly c...

Above the “purging” arpeggios in the piano accompaniment, the voices sing melodic and harmonic intervals which are predominantly from the whole tone scale. The singing is effectively frame...

This folk song in the Dorian mode tells an amusing story interspersed with appealing responses and a chorus of nonsense syllables. The active piano accompaniment departs from the scale of the melody,...

Dalglish has masterfully set this quiet text with a simple, flowing melody. The shimmering quality of the hammer dulcimer is a perfect complement to the legato vocal line. The easily-accessible descan...

This lively folk song is accompanied by two repetitive countermelodies, each with its own character and humor. The middle voice is the melody, giving young singers an opportunity to develop inner voic...

Longfellow wrote the text, entitled “Christmas Bells,” in 1863. During that Christmas season, the poet's son was critically wounded in a war, and the text expresses his father's anguish ov...

This short piece was written early in Schein's life and is typical of the Italian madrigal. The polyphonic writing offers each voice a melodic line to shape, and imitation to listen for the other voic...

A bittersweet old Cuban song which expresses a longing for the days when “the pearl” - the island of Cuba - was free. The lamenting text (which can be sung in Spanish or English) is set to...

Chorpartitur - mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probenzwecken

Shakespeare's familiar text from Twelfth Night about unrequited love is expressed through varying levels of dissonance.

This piece is known in a variety of melodies and dialects in the Ukranian oral tradition.

This piece is one you might do in the fall of the school year, when you have new and inexperienced choristers to train. The added counterpoint at the opening, and few forays into three-part “har...