Partitions Barbershop pour chœur mixte

Le Psaume 57, qui oppose des moments de réflexion à une exultation déclamatoire, utilise des passages du psaume éponyme dans la traduction de la King James. Écrit en 1972, il est dédié à la Brazeal De...

Mettant en scène de manière magnifiquement simple des mots familiers de Langston Hughes, Bring me all your dreams met en valeur l'écriture homophonique efficace et la riche palette harmonique de Harri...

Dona nobis pacem est une mise en musique expressive qui combine deux lignes sur le thème de la paix tirées de l'Ordinaire de la messe latine. Un tempo lent confère grâce et équilibre aux lignes vocale...

Dona nobis pacem combines two lines about peace from the Ordinary of the Latin Mass. A slow tempo lends grace and poise to the gentle, sustained vocal lines, and the composer juxtaposes homophonic and...

The Gift to Sing est une partie de chant sans accompagnement dont le texte, écrit par l'écrivain américain et militant des droits civiques James Weldon Johnson, évoque la manière dont le pouvoir de la...

A Birthday reprend un poème du même titre de Christina Rossetti. Chydenius reflète l'imagerie vivante du texte des versets à travers de belles lignes vocales et des contre-mélodies tourbillonnantes. L...

A Birthday sets a poem of the same title by Christina Rossetti. Chydenius reflects the vivid imagery in the text of the verses through beautiful vocal lines with swirling countermelodies. The choruses...

Cette chanson mêle habilement un poème classique, Uphill de Christina Rossetti, à un style décontracté et légèrement jazzy. Passant d'une harmonie à trois voix à une harmonie à six voix, la texture de...

Becky McGlade has set this well-known Christmas hymn with textures both rich and restrained. The original English language hymn was based on a 19th-century English translation of Prudentius's 4th-cent...

Écrit dans un style a cappella avec accompagnement scat, "A Tree is a Song" est une célébration joyeuse des liens et des affinités que l'on trouve dans la nature et de la façon dont la sagesse et la c...

La pièce a boy & a boy de Stuart Beatch met en scène un texte romantique et finalement tragique du poète Matthew Stepanic. Écrite en réponse à l'œuvre bien connue d'Eric Whitacre, A Boy and a Girl, Be...

Stuart Beatch's a boy & a boy sets a romantic and ultimately tragic text by poet Matthew Stepanic. Written as a response to Eric Whitacre's well-known work A Boy and a Girl, Beatch describes this piec...

Le Sanctus enchanteur de Hazzard, qui reprend un texte de la messe en latin, donne l'impression d'un courant impétueux tout au long de l'œuvre. Bien que l'énergie palpite souvent sous la surface, elle...

Hazzard's enchanting Sanctus, setting text from the Latin Mass, captures the feeling of a rushing current throughout. Suitable for concert use, this piece features imaginative text-setting and driving...

Skempton's After Rain sets an evocative text by Edward Thomas with a contemplative choral part over a rich and slow-moving cello line. Skempton alternates between contrasting upper-voice duets and ful...

This setting of the traditional hymn to 'Mary, the star of the sea' contrasts two moods and styles: the flowing simplicity of the 'Ave maris stella' refrain and the slightly faster and more homophonic...

This motet is the fifth of a set of seven relating the life story of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Finnissy's aim was to hint at technical and expressive continuity with the music of the 11th and 12th cent...

This setting of this popular text was composed in 1997; choir directors should feel free to put a few sopranos on the alto line in the two polyphonic sections. Offprinted from the collection Cantica N...

This setting was commissioned by Choir and Organ magazine in 2003 and first performed by St Alban's Cathedral Choir under the direction of Andrew Lucas. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

This Introit is the first of four Latin motets commissioned for the 1976 Edington Festival and first performed in Edington Priory. The Introit firsty pays tribute to Augustine, and then, in a more liv...

Aiming for weightless flexibility of expression, this setting employs an idiom detectably in keeping with aspects of medieval practise. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

At only one point in the piece (bars 37-9) does the the level rise above piano. Despite occassional tuning demands, it should be well within the reach of many choirs. Offprinted from the collection Ca...

A short, eloquant piece commissioned by Winchester College reflecting the spirit of Advent. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

Bob Chilcott wrote this piece at the request of a friend and colleague Michael Emery, the Producer of the BBC Singers, who wanted a new piece to sing at Mass in Notre Dame, Paris, while touring with t...

This motet was written to celebrate the golden jubilee of Canon Francis Bartlett's priesthood and first performed at the Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia, Kingsway on 29 June 1985. Offprinted from t...