Partitions moyen chez ECS Publishing

Stephen Chatman's stirring arrangements the Canadian National Anthem for band or orchestra are meant to inspire. Although essentially traditional, these arrangements convey unique features, including...

Most people have heard the saying, 'If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a minute. ' Driving through the Berkshires one day in Western Massachusetts, I came across such an event when thr...

On Compassion received its premiere performance by the Vox Nova Chorale. The text comes from two quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and the Tibetan Buddhist mantra, 'Om mani padme hum, ' which is...

SSAA Chorus, Oboe, and String Quartet or Piano American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 collection of poems titled Love Songs. The text for this song is taken from '...

Specks of Earth is a collection of choral miniatures that use poetry from Rabindranath Tagore's work Stray Birds, a collection of 326 short poems. Vivid language elicits a burst of imagery that is tra...

This setting of Maya Angelou's poem Touched by an Angel is a reminder that love is not a mere timid, fleeting feeling, but a courageous struggle which heightens our experience of both joy and pain. Lo...

This lyrical music perfectly matches the elegantly phrased text written by the 18th-century Irish singer, songwriter, and poet Thomas Moore. Tender and emotional, the choral writing is accompanied by...

A setting of a portion of the Hebrew prayer Al HaNissim ('On the Miracles'), recited on the Jewish festival of Chanukah. The prayer is an expression of gratitude for God's intervention on behalf of t...

Composed in celebration of a storied career on behalf of Susan Ihnen, the accompanist at Valley High School in West Des Moines, Iowa, for twenty-five years. This skilled young composer has managed to...

This setting of the Mother Goose nursery rhyme is dangerously close to a groovy choral vamp! The scoring is for mixed chorus and jazz trio, but it certainly could be performed with just a piano (proba...

The origin of the melody My Country 'Tis of Thee is not known but assumed to generate from Europe. The melody is also used for the national anthem of the United Kingdom, God Save the Queen. The text f...

Text painting abounds in this setting of a Dickinson poem concerning the brief time gifted to our human condition. To match the topic and brevity of the poem, the work itself isn't long, lasting only...