SKU: M7.DOHR-28810
ISBN 9790202018101.
SKU: M7.DOHR-94100
ISBN 9790202001004. German.
SKU: MN.50-8800
UPC: 688670588006.
Based on WYLDE GREEN with inclusive language version ofPraise We Now Famous Men text. Patriotic occasions, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and All Saints Day. Mostly Unison and SATB, grandiose ending.
SKU: AP.46941
UPC: 038081535906. English. Traditional Spiritual.
A grandiose choral introduction travels through several keys to open this polished setting of the traditional spiritual, which soon breaks into a joyously brisk treatment featuring call-and-response between sections, terraced dynamic contrasts, and thick divisi textures. Fantastic a cappella writing for advanced choirs.
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The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: AP.47585
UPC: 038081542782. English.
A bombastic and stately theme, based on stacked modal harmonies, gives a triumphant air to this contemporary setting of the traditional Latin text. Hushed B and C sections offer contrast before recapitulating the grandiose opening and an even fuller final cadence. Timpani, tubular bells, and triangle (which may be downloaded for free) may be performed by a single percussionist and add to the riveting drama.
SKU: BP.1138
This choral fantasia of Old 113th provides all the fanfar and power the text deserves. The boisterous vocal parts combine with organ, timpani, and congregation to create a grandious experience for all involved.
SKU: MN.50-9028
UPC: 688670590283. Text: Charles Wesley.
Lush, grandiose setting of Charles Wesley text. Excellent for large experienced groups, community choruses, college/university choirs. High tessituras. Independent accompaniment. Written for SATB and Organ.
SKU: CA.966300
ISBN 9790007167684. Language: Latin.
Matsushita has conceived his setting of the Pentecost sequence entirely in the Renaissance polychoral tradition. He employs the full choir (within individual choirs divisi passages also occasionally occur) solely for magnificent sounding climaxes at conclusions, prior to these occurrences he repeatedly combines groups of voices or he allows individual choirs to sing, effectively, in alternation. This type of reduction is even carried over to quasi Gregorian passages sung by one voice in unison. The piece is tonal throughout, with occasional diatonic seasoning. The consistently homophonic setting is oriented towards the declamation of the Latin text. Melodically it is in the style of modal, Gregorian structures, without quoting the well-known sequence. A fast, rhythmically syncopated declamatory section introduces, the dramaturgically appropriate climax to the solemn conclusion, which, molto legato, returns once again with large upward swings to the text of the first strophe. Matsushita writes in a comfortable vocal range so that the work can be sung, at the same time, in both a relaxed and grandiose manner. For large choirs, even for oratorio choirs with only limited experience in a cappella singing, this piece is aptly suited for performance and the music is both grateful and brings much joy for singers.
SKU: CA.966900
ISBN 9790007181062. Text language: Latin.
This is how the composer presents the coming glory which, according to the text, is experienced in Holy Communion (the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist): magnificent, solemn, exalted, and exuberant. To achieve this, Schurch exploits the polychoral compositional techniques of the late Renaissance to the full. He combines these with syncopated rhythmic overlayerings which inject energy into the repeated upswings leading to the grandiose concluding Halleluja. With its colorful sonority and dynamic range from pianissimo to a tremendous fortissimo, the piece is effective in concert performance or in competition.
