Partitions pour chœur d'enfants

The focus of this poetic text is on the mother, and the special feelings of mothers worldwide. It is a lullaby, simple, with a gentle sense of awe.

This setting of a prayer from the traditional Requiem mass uses added-tone harmonies and repetition to create a serene, prayerful mood.

Taivas on Sininen expresses the longing of youth (and all people) to voice care and concerns about the world and to express the secrets of our hearts.

The melodic material of Chatter with the Angels is pentatonic. Optional improvisatory section for either solfa or Orff instruments.

Equally a memorial and a sincere tribute to the cycles of life, this reverent work features shapely and contemplative melodies unfolding over a gently undulating piano accompaniment. Newly arranged fo...

Chor unisono und Klavier

This choral art-song is an aural painting of moods and textures. It should give students the opportunity to explore how music paints various pictures of the same phenomena; the three main sections of...

The poem is a “glimmering” description of a spider web as viewed through the wonder-filled eyes of a child. To illustrate this, the Lydian mode was chosen for its impressionistic quality a...

This suite emulates the long phrases and finely developed breath control that is a hallmark of Gaelic singing.

Yellow Evening Sun, the third haiku of Scarecrow Songs, was written by Shoha and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press. This two-part counterpoint mimics the m...

Autumn Wind, a haiku of Issa (1763-1827) and translated by Peter Beilenson in Haiku Harvest published by Peter Pauper Press, heralds the ominous onset of the perils of cold windy nights signalling pos...

The main body of this work consists of an extended invocation in the style of a polychoral motet, based on an anonymous Latin text, and ending with a plea for peace. This is preceded by a briefer intr...

In this passage, God envisions a reconciliation, in which God the groom provides the bride-piece of “righteousness and justice” in reaffirming the “marraige,” so that Israel mi...

Battant Son Plein is French slang, literally “hitting his fill,” the equivalent of the English “in full swing.” Written for Scala, a children's choir from Bruxelles, the title...

Glettur is an Icelandic word that means “happiness,” but with a strong teasing edge. Somebody who is glettin will have a warm heart, but watch out for the garlic gym and the dribble glass....