Pavane Choral

Who doesn't remember musical moments in their past, when singing became transcendent and the moment became a memory never to be forgotten? Henry Van Dyke's poem recalls that time and Matthew Emery, th...

Guy Forbes gave us O Nata Lux many years ago and we have patiently waited for its sequel. Now we have it, a stunning setting of There Is No Rose that delivers exactly what we hoped for. It is a beauti...

Stacey Gibbs is perhaps the most popular arranger of traditional spirituals today. Creative ideas with harmony and rhythmic accompaniment make his treatments stand out. Choirs enjoy the familiar tunes...

High school choral director, Jonathan Adams, has composed a number of beautiful a cappella pieces. This setting of Ecclesiastes 3:11 contains those yummy suspensions and cadences that choirs yearn for...

Canadian composer Matthew Emery is a name to watch. This piece was chosen as the winner of the 2012 Nova Scotia Choral Federation Choral Competition. Last year Pavane published his When the Sun Comes...

Jesse Beulke is a young American composer in his first year of college, yet this, his first published piece, demonstrates a musical maturity well beyond his years. Selected for the David Dickau Signat...

In only a few short years Richard Burchard has become recognized as one of the new, great choral composers in America. His sonorities are often thick but always rich and satisfying. His melodies are m...

Stacey Gibbs is known for his outstanding spiritual arrangements, and this piece makes a delightful departure as an original composition. Much of the creativity that is evident in his arrangements rem...

Selected for the John Byun Choral series, this traditional Korean folk song has been given some wonderful contemporary and creative treatment. The vocal techniques and harmonic flair are inventive and...

Kevin Memley's exquisite a cappella writing has captured our hearts many times. He does not disappoint with this classic Latin text. The place of sacred mystery is honored richly with the harmonic col...

Brian Tate wants to help bring us all together and uses his imaginative music and community- building texts to make it happen. Each vocal part gets their own statement and they sequence together into...

It is the poetry of the King James version that places this sacred text into the concert program. That, and the exquisite setting that Jonathan Adams, a revered high school choral teacher, offers. Kno...

The Randy Stenson International Series launches with this stunning a cappella motet by Alejandro Consolacion. Based in Japan, Randy leads seminars throughout Asia and hears beautiful choral music most...

This Chassidic Nigun brings a Jewish cultural tradition to the choral community with history and fun. The song without words uses a syllable sound with historic roots that are explained in the perform...

Kane Bradley is a Junior and Senior high choral director and a relatively new composer on the scene. His De Profundis employs minimalism and contemporary harmonies that are quite compelling. He builds...

George Hernandez has become the recognized expert in a cappella choral arrangements of Filipino folk music. This delightful Tagalog tune is a playful love song. The bouncy vocal accompaniment figures...

Memley has set this thoughtful 19th century Barnes' poem in a contemporary madrigal style. Pensive moments cadence on stunning chords, gentle dissonances provoke the listener's ears, woven together in...

Eric Saari from North Dakota State University has captured Walt Whitman's text about sunset with vivid 21st century hues. Bursts of color unfold in words and sound creating pictures in your mind. High...

Matthew Emery is an emerging composer that writes with a maturity beyond his age. This imaginative setting of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem brings a freshness as real as the smells after a summer rain...

In the past few years Stacey Gibbs has become recognized as an excellent arranger of spirituals. His settings have been performed at numerous ACDA National and Regional conventions. Witness is one of...

This ancient prayer carries the depth of the ages clothed in sounds of our current times. Jesse Beulke is a relative newcomer whose maturity in composition is evident. The melodic content is engaging...

This traditional African-American slave song comes from the Georgia Sea Islands. The a cappella Spiritual style rocks this energetic and evangelizing song. Brian Tate brings a soulful passion to his a...

Pavane Publishing is proud to introduce Charlie Leftridge - an emerging composer and poet that deserves recognition. The poem artfully encourages us all to live every moment fully and the musical sett...

This piece is a polite adaptation by famed Scottish poet, Robert Burns, of a traditional bawdy song of the same name. This more charming version presents a poignant and emotive consideration of human...

Thula Baba is an African lullaby from the Zulu tribe that is a well-known melody through the continent. This a cappella arrangement maintains the gentle qualities of a mother's song to her child while...