Partitions moyen chez Boosey & Hawkes

The Promise of Living is the stirring choral finale from Act I of The Tender Land, Copland's opera about life on a Great Plains farm. It is offered here in a brass quintet arrangement intended for edu...

Commissioned by St. Olaf University and music programs to honour and celebrate 30 years of service-minded leadership by Anton Armstrong. Long-time friend and colleague André Thomas was the perfect cho...

Chorpartitur engl.

Chorpartitur - mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probenzwecken

The collaged texts of Spinning Flax are “spun” together from a broad historical range of source material - court records, church and town records, neurological case histories, Medieval and...

Written in 1937 for a performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Now I walk in Beauty is a setting of a prayer of the Navaho people. The simple set of variations on a four phrase melody is a celebration of the innate deep in the heart of all people.

In a Valley Low combines folksongs from American and Finland in a light, melancholy jazz style. The folksongs share the idea of passing through the world and carrying the beauty encountered there in y...

This setting of the poem Faldang attempts to capture the flavour of the fiddle tunes referred to in the text with the zestiness of meter changes and no-diatonic excursions. Above all else, it should b...

There's a certain kind of lousy mood that often comes with a holiday. This piece is in honor of that loust mood.

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a light-hearted song in 6/8 time in which the shepherd describes to his love the many pleasures they will enjoy in a idyllic, pastoral setting if she will come a...

Chorpartitur - mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probenzwecken.

Moonplay is influenced by the tradition of inventions - studies using limited musical materials. Yi and yu - change and constancy - are the foundations of almost every musical form. And in abstract mu...

The life of Oglala Sioux holy man Black Elk (1863-1950) spanned the tragic decades of the battle with Custer at the Little Big Horn, the ghost dance, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. In 1930, Nebrask...

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...