This exclusive collection brings together 12 of Nico Muhly?s sacred works for mixed-voice choir. These vivacious fresh and dramatic pieces will make an impact whether in the church or in the concert hall and range from the intimate Lord keep us modest when we claim to the effervescent Bright Star Carol alongside service music such as Muhly?s Third Service. All are accessible to learn and offer choirs a new slant on contemporary choral music at its very best.  'Choral music has always been at the emotional core of my musical output. Even when I?m writing large-scale orchestral works (or indeed chamber music) I alwaysfind myself returning to techniques and textures I?ve greedily stolen from centuries of music from Tye to Howells early and recent. I try to design my own choral music primarily for use in worship where the measure of the success of the piece is if it helps guide the listeners? ears upwards and elsewhere as sacred architecture and the various rituals of the church themselves are meant to do. The specificity of music heard only in certain seasons is for me an important and thrilling element of the choral tradition: a Beethoven Symphony is welcome at any point in the year but an anthem for Candlemas works only then at a certain time of day and on a certain day of the year. With this functional spirit at the heart of the compositional process I hope that the music collected here makes equal sense in a concert setting. These works range from ordinaries of the mass to hymns to motets and represent a decade and a half of output.' - Nico Muhly

CHORAL VIVACE is a major new choral series by the internationally-acclaimed Australia composer Sandra Milliken. Contact us to receive your free CHORAL VIVACE sampler CD / Travaux Pour Choeurs

Selected by the ACDA Publications Committee, this stunning anthology reveals the overlooked American composers of choral music from the Romantic Era. 33 superb compositions are carefully edited along with historical commentary byDr. David P. DeVenney. Recordings of many of the pieces are also included. This is a resource that will be required at every American choral institution. Includes works by William Batchelder Bradbury, George F. Bristow, DudleyBuck, George Whitefield Chadwick, William Wallace Gilchrist, Henry Hadley, John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, and James Cutler Dunn Parker. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed ordownloaded.

Ready-to-Use Resource Material for the Choir Rehearsal. MASTER STRATEGIES FOR CHOIR presents over 70 ready-to-use reproducible rubrics and activities for the choral rehearsal grades 6-12. It is organized into three areas: 1) choir as a sound laboratory covering choral techniques; 2) choir as a rehearsal-classroom addressing history style and theory; and 3) choir as a concert venue addressing concert etiquette and assessment. Add variety to your choral rehearsal with this new resource. Available: Resource Book (with reproducible activity pages). For Gr. 6-12.

La véritable raison d'être de la pratique du chant choral est la démarche vers l'Autre. Les facteurs humains constituent le fondement essentiel de tout travail d'élaboration chorale.

A travers cet ouvrage, l'auteur engage une réflexion sur l'espace choral, appréhendé dans la globalité de ses richesses et de ses contradictions. Il s'adresse à tous ceux qui s'adonnent au chant choral (choristes, chefs de choeur, musiciens...) se consacrant à des degrés divers à magnifier la voix chorale.

Un survol historique permet de mettre en évidence la nature de toute entité chorale, incarnation éphémère d'un art musical en perpétuelle évolution, puis de réfléchir aux incidences de l'héritage des siècles passés sur une pratique partagée, au coeur d'un présent sans cesse à réinventer. / Classique / Livre /

William Walton Edition vol. 6 Hardback-Choral composition was an important and constant thread throughout Walton's composing career and this volume brings together all his choral works designed to be sung a cappella or with organ: anthems carols partsongs and service settings.

Brahms's deeply moving Alto Rhapsody is one of the glories of the choral repertoire. Though it was written as a wedding song for the daughter of his friend Clara Schumann, the work clearly seems a deeply personal one for Brahms. Perhaps, as some have suggested, a melancholy reflection on his own solitary life. This great concert favorite is based on portions of the text of Goethe's Harzreise im Winter (Winter Journey in the Harz Mountains), and set for alto solo, men's chorus, and orchestra. In addition to the Alto Rhapsody, this volume contains three other major Brahms choral works: the Song of Destiny, a setting of a poem by Hölderlin: Nänie, a dirge for Brahms's friend Anselm Feuerbach, set to a text by Schiller: and Song of the Fates, set to passages from Act IV of Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris. All four works have been reprinted from the authoritative edition published by Breitkopf

Part Exercises-Part Exercises. This supplemental volume of part exercises follows the sequence of The Jenson Sight Singing Course but can be used in conjunction with any sight singing method. It has been compiled to provide choral directors with graded material in parts for use with choral ensembles and consists of predominantly 4-part exercises along with rounds 2-part and 3-part exercises. Ranges allow for flexibility in voicing for various groups. Available in the Jenson Sight Singing Course: Teacher's Edition Vol.I

On Eagles' Wings is a wonderfully uplifting piece by Alexander L'Estrange for upper voices featuring glorious soaring melodies and an infectious rhythmic drive. It can be performed either with organ or showcasing L’Estrange’s jazz background with piano and double bass. Ideal both in a liturgical context and as part of a concert programme.On Eagles' Wings is part of the Faber Choral Signature Series which introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of living composers offering a thrilling array of varied styles.

Long considered the noblest most inspired musical treatment of the crucifixion of Christ Bach's St. Matthew Passion remains an immensely popular work. First performed in the late 1720s the great choral masterpiece was scored for a vast ensemble of double chorus soloists double orchestra and two organs. Richly dramatic and theatrical its deeply moving story unfolds in recitatives ariosos arias and majestic choral movements.Reproduced here from an authoritative early edition the score appears with bar-numbered movements. Ideal for classroom or home study.

Festive fare for a Christmas of close harmony-The Boosey & Hawkes Concerts For Choirs series is an innovative approach to concert planning for choirs. Each volume contains a wealth of material to help the choral director assemble a concert programme - all from one volume. The anthology draws on the vast Boosey & Hawkes archive and also includes many specially-composed or newly-arranged pieces. The information included at the end of each book will give the choral director invaluable material for brief concert announcements or program notes. Christmas In Blue is a collection of familiar and not-so-familiar festive songs brought together by Nigel Short former member of the King's Singersand conductor of Tenebrae. His own new arrangements join those by Christopher Norton (Microjazz) Karl Jenkins Will Todd Geoff Richards Carol Canning (a former member of the Swingle Singers) and Ward Swingle himself.