Secular Choral
For all pieces of music, you will be sent a pdf of the score and/or parts and you can make as many copies as you want for the price quoted.
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Time, Real and Imaginary
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Performance by Vox Philia |
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A secular a cappella piece for SATB with a text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The text is an intriguing image of a brother and sister who are chasing each other. One of them is blind and has no idea where the other is in the race. Both of them represent time in it's different forms: real time and imagined time! The multiple meters and rhythms from each voice part capture the conflict between the two.
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$40.00 for unlimited copies
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Old Dreams
$40.00 for unlimited copies |
A piece for SATB and piano on a text by William Butler Yeats. The text refers to a person "nodding by the fire" and getting down his/her book of life and looking back on the life he or she has lived. (Performance by the Princeton Singers)
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Before the Sun Goes Down
$15.00 for a quartet $40.00 for a chorus |
A wonderful wedding piece!
This piece for unaccompanied SATB quartet or chorus was originally written for a wedding. The text is by Astrid Hjertenaes Andersen and speaks of wildflower hands and kisses living like birds on the lovers' shoulders. The music sets the text in a flowing and gentle way. |
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Winter's Passing - A Secular Holiday/Winter Concert Piece (with piano)
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I. Mother's Song (piano version) from "Winter's Passing"
$20.00 for this mvm't. $40.00 for all 3 movements of "Winter's Passing" |
SATB and piano. This piece is a gentle, simple song about a mother asking a crane to warm her child in it's wings. (Performance by Reading Choral Society)
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II. There's A Certain Slant of Light (piano version) from "Winter's Passing"
$20.00 for this mvm't. $40.00 for all 3 movements of "Winter's Passing" |
SATB and piano. A haunting text by Emily Dickinson about an oppressive slant of light on winter afternoons. The accompaniment represents the harsh slant of light and the chorus with its smooth melodies tries to get it's bearings above it. (Performance by Reading Choral Society)
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III. After A Long Winter (piano version) from "Winter's Passing"
$20.00 for this mvm't. $40.00 for all 3 movements of "Winter's Passing" |
SATB and piano. The text says it all...
"After a long winter, giving each other nothing, we collide with blossoms in our hands." (Performance by Reading Choral Society) |
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I. Mother's Song (orchestral version) from "Winter's Passing"
Same prices as above. $20.00 additional charge for orchestral parts for each movement. |
SATB and full orchestra. This piece is a gentle, simple song about a mother asking a crane to warm her child in it's wings. (Performance by Reading Choral Society and Reading Pops Orchestra)
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II. There's A Certain Slant of Light (orchestral version) from "Winter's Passing"
Same prices as above. $20.00 additional charge for orchestral parts for each movement. |
SATB and full orchestra. A haunting text by Emily Dickinson about an oppressive slant of light on winter afternoons. The accompaniment represents the harsh slant of light and the chorus with its smooth melodies tries to get it's bearings above it. (Performance by Reading Choral Society and Reading Pops Orchestra)
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Contact David for full score and parts.
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III. After A Long Winter (orchestral version) from "Winter's Passing"
Same prices as above. $20.00 additional charge for orchestral parts for each movement. |
SATB and full orchestra. The text says it all...
"After a long winter, giving each other nothing, we collide with blossoms in our hands." (Performance by Reading Choral Society and Reading Pops Orchestra) |
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Requiem and Prayer
$50.00 for Score and percussion parts |
A piece for SATB Chorus, recorder, 2 marimbas and world percussion ensemble. The texts are about war and freedom and are by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and South African poet Dennis Brutus. (Performance by the Kutztown University World Percussion Ensemble and Fall Festival of the Arts Chorus)
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hoop snake
$40.00 for unlimited copies |
A piece for SATB chorus and piano that emulates the vibrant poetry of Rebecca Liv Wee. There is the image of the hoop snake, that takes it's tail in it's own mouth and rolls on forever, juxtaposed with lightning, lush grass and unheard melodies. The varied meters of 7/4 and 3/4 reflect the hurried, ungrounded snake and warm, supportive sections of text.
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The Glass and the Bowl from "Four Women"
$30.00 total for reduced choral version and parts. The sample is the full score. |
A piece for SATB and 10 piece instrumental ensemble. A beautiful text by Louise Erdrich that contrasts the images of a father caring for his child and the "burst ropes of stars" overhead.
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