Partitions chœur

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...

The mood and texture of this piece is simple, limpid, and serene: the peace that passes understanding. Every line in every voice, no matter how understated, is of melodic interest and emotional import...

Kahil Gibran's words reflect profoundly personal feelings of our experience with music.

This charming new madrigal was written for Tom Berryman's High School choir at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts.

This is one of the most popular love songs from the Dominican Republic. It describes a modest, and yet beautiful, little rural house in the Cibao region where the composer evokes the consummation of a...