Boosey & Hawkes

Introduce your choirs to the music of America's best known composer, Aaron Copland. Carefully edited and arranged, it preserves the original accompaniment and makes an excellent concert feature.

The slow harmonic rhythm and haunting chords of this beautiful setting are well-suited for the large, reverberant churches where this music was first performed.

Written for the 20th anniversary of the CME Institute, A Living Song serves to honor and reflect on the passion for music that CME has instilled in countless singers throughout the years.

Another gem from Stephen Hatfield celebrating the tradition and ancestry of Newfoundland.

Hauntingly beautiful, this is the story of a young girl exiled to a remote island by a hard-hearted uncle. The story of love and loss that unfolds is second only to the lush harmonies of the vocal lin...

This evocative setting reflects the relationship Native Americans have with the earth, animals and nature.

Winner of the 2004 Emerging Composer Competition awarded by the Yale Glee Club, this work is a setting of the Latin antiphon by Hildegard von Bingen. Alternating between joy and reflection, this buoya...

This breathtaking work, derived from unique fragments of plainchant from the 13th century, evokes a sense of serenity and peace. O Columba begins slowly and quietly with three verses of hymn in praise...

A joyous fanfare, heralding the great news of birth in the time of darkness. This piece is full of precise rhythms and should be sung with breathless enthusiasm.

A choral fantasy based on two tunes, Little David Play on Your Harp and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, this piece exercises the essential even eighth-note rhythms of Little David and the swing 8ths of Swin...

Written in May 2005, when the composer was living in the Netherlands, this piece is a set of four songs for a cappella chorus. Each movement addresses one direction of the wind, implying one season of...

A hauntingly beautiful setting of a Scottish poem, Six Bells captures an air of mystery that will enchant audiences and singers alike. Various small solo opportunities make this an ideal piece for bud...

An exciting setting of a nineteenth-century carol, The Manger Throne employs sustained, lyrical phrases, while also maintaining an energetic tempo and sense of motion.

Comprised of a children's song, a lullaby, and a love song, this collection of folk tunes is full of lively rhythms and enchanting melodies.

Introduce your choirs to the music of America's best known composer - Aaron Copland. Carefully edited and arranged, it preserves the original accompaniment and makes an excellent concert feature. Incl...

Based on the famous Ecclesiastes text, Rupert Lang has created a lovely piece that conveys a message of hope and the idea that there is balance in all things. For three-part treble voices and piano. D...

This arrangement of a British folk song is so authentic in its sound, you will almost be able to catch a hint of salt in the air. Buoyant four-part writing and accessible harmonies convey the story of...

February Twilight is a stark setting of poetry by Sara Teasdale. The controlled restraint used in the vocal lines creates the image of a cold, clear winter's night. You'll practically see the night sk...

A traditional Bulgarian folk song, Rumjana has the common rhythm of a 'lesnoto,' a stately dance in 7/8 time.

The sense of youthful, innocent longing so beautifully expressed in the poem of this Edna St. Vincent Millay text is beautifully mirrored in the large melodic leaps and occasional chromaticism of this...

Ned Rorem has been described as 'The world's best composer of art songs,' and these two contrasting and compelling works for chorus affirm this description. 'Dirge' poignantly expresses the pain of un...

Based on poetry by e.e. cummings, this setting is dedicated to the composer's mother on the occasion of her 87th birthday. Masterful vocal writing and an engaging piano accompaniment evoke images both...