Contents:ÊRoses Red Are Blooming ¥ Hey There, Gypsy ¥ Heaven's Light Streams Bright

Composer: Johannes Brahms

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Composer: Franz Liszt

This timeless Byrd motet removes the modern barlines that obscure the natural stress of the text. Extensive notes and a word-for-word translation are provided. A great tool for teaching Renaissance style, as well as simply being a piece every choir should know!Ê

Composer: William Byrd

Composer: Camille Saint-Saens

Arranger: Richard Kenneth Fitzgerald | Composer: T. Tertius Noble

This plea for Christ to come into our lives moves along with a fair amount of unison singing that nonetheless requires careful attention to phrasing and nuance. It expands into two parts in octaves (ST/AB), building into an SATB f then ff, finally tapering off into a four-part canon that fades into a ppp ending. A fairly easy piece that requires a disciplined choir.

Composer: Roger Ames

From the Evoking Sound Choral Series this solfege edition of "The Virgin's Cradle Hymn," a translation from the obscure Latin by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is among GIA catalog's most unique: "Sleep, sweet babe! My cares beguiling....Come, soft slumber, balmily!"The extensive notes are invaluable to performance practice and interpretation, and the treatise on the solfege analysis of the Phrygian and Lydian modes is a good education in itself!Effective preparation and teaching will make this piece both fascinating and fulfilling for singers.

Composer: Joel Phillips

Composer: Michael Waldenby

From Liebeslieder Walzer, Three Gypsy Love Songs. Performed at the Choral Arts Symposium, Vance George, conductor

Composer: Johannes Brahms

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Composer: Pero de Gamboa

Composer: Johannes Brahms

On a text by Opus Dei founder St. Josemaria Escriva, "Do everything for love," the composition is a musical homage to Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. For accompanied SATB voices, it demands that the choir be able to navigate the Stravinsky-esque harmonic vocabulary. Ê

Composer: Ronald A. Hemmel

Solfege edition: Major mode.

Composer: Johannes Brahms

This a cappella jazz arrangement of the English carol features tight harmonies and strong rhythmic drive. Although this piece may pose a challenge for less experienced choirs, the musical rewards will be well worth the effort. Great for a holiday concert or service of carols.

Arranger: Marilyn Shenenberger

Composer: George Frideric Handel

Three Gypsy Love Songs. Performed at the Choral Arts Symposium,Vance George, conductor

Composer: Johannes Brahms

This edition of the Mendelssohn masterpiece Song of Simeon not only features careful editing, but it includes both German and English texts, with Harmonic Immersion Solfege, making it a fine performance edition as well as being important for choral pedagogy.Ê

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

Three Gypsy Love Songs. Performed at the Choral Arts Symposium,Vance George, conductor

Composer: Johannes Brahms

Composer: Thomas LaVoy

Keeping with this series' concept of maximizing the pedagogical potential of performed works, this motet, a sacred choral standard, offers solfege syllables for learning the parts and an "aural anchor accompaniment," a unique tool for developing better intonation. Minus the solfege and accompaniment the cherished Tallis motet stands ready to perform.

Composer: Thomas Tallis

"Of course, in the Renaissance 'dying' also frequently referred to the 'little death' of sexual release." -composer's notes.An English translation provided.

Composer: Jacques Arcadelt

A 16th-century secular madrigal in the dorian mode that depicts a dialog between two women who are poking fun at one of the women's cuckolded husband. It is superbly crafted with an onomatopoeic depiction of clucking chickens.Percussion part is for hand drum.

Composer: Pierre Passereau

From Liebeslieder Walzer, Three Gypsy Love Songs. Performed at the Choral Arts Symposium, Vance George, conductor

Composer: Johannes Brahms

Audio track below performed by The Choir of Saint Thomas Church in NYC-Gerre Hancock, conductor

Composer: Jackson Hill

Composer: Gerald Custer

Arranger: Brian A. Schmidt | Composer: George Frederick Root

Solfege Edition.

Composer: Josef Rheinberger

Composer: Louis Vierne

Contents: When You Fondly Glance at Me, O Broken Heart, Oh, the Ladies, My Beloved, Not So Close, Crashing Waters from on High, In Conclusion

Composer: Johannes Brahms

Composer: Roger Ames

In 2013 I had the great honor of receiving a major commission from the Marquette Symphony Orchestra to compose a 45-minute work dedicated to the victims of the Italian Hall disaster. On Christmas Eve of 1913 inCalumet, Michigan, a man shouted "Fire!" in the crowded Italian Hall, causing a stampede that would leave 73 innocent people, the vast majority of them young children, dead on the stairs leading down to the street below.The man who cried "Fire!" was never positively identified or made to pay for his crime, and even today his dark celebrity is often more prevalent in discussions about the disaster than the identity of the victims themselves.A Child's Requiem, with a libretto written by my mother, poet Esther Margaret Ayers, seeks to posthumously elevate the dead out of the context of the Italian Hall disaster; to celebrate them as they were in life and deathand not as a statistic used to apportion blame. "Lux aeterna" is the flagship movement of the work, a supplication to God

Composer: Thomas LaVoy

Composer: Henry Purcell

Composer: Anthony Bernarducci

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Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

From Liebeslieder Walzer, Three Gypsy Love Songs. Performed at the Choral Arts Symposium, Vance George, conductor

Composer: Johannes Brahms

From The Divine Gift.

Composer: Richard Kenneth Fitzgerald

This choral staple of the Christmas repertoire is given in an edition that omits the modern bar lines- except for light, dashed barlines through the top line of each staff-bringing the appearance closer to authentic Renaissance vocal music.Light editorial brackets over each voice part help the singer visualize the phrasing.A pedagogic edition with pronunciation and interpretation guides.

Composer: Tomas Luis de Victoria

Composer: Peter Relph

Newly edited, this haunting setting of the tragic Aquinas text is perfect for Holy Thursday. A word-for-word translation is provided as well as solfege syllables for learning the piece.

Composer: Anton Bruckner

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

Three Gypsy Love Songs. Performed at the Choral Arts Symposium,Vance George, conductor

Composer: Johannes Brahms

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Composer: William Byrd

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Composer: Orlando di Lasso

The chromatic harmonies and well-placed vocal divisi make this arrangement of "Coventry Carol" particularly poignant. Optional handbells can be played by choir singers. Attention to dynamics and use of rubato will make for a stunning performance.Optional 7 handbells.

Arranger: Steve Pilkington

Composer: Eunbi Kwak

Composer: Blake R. Henson

Composer: Gerald Custer

If you have a college choir, or an above-average high school or church choir, and if you've grown a bit weary of the same or similar Christmas repertoire year after year, look at these settings of two classic carols: a 16th-century translation of part of Luther's Vom Himmel hoch and an 18th-century work by an under-appreciated poet. Ê

Composer: Gerald Custer

The audio track with the pdf preview is performed by Williamson Voices of Westminster Choir College-James Jordan, conductor

Composer: Jackson Hill