Purity of line and harmony focus attention on the expressive text of this beautiful ballad. / Voix Mixtes
SKU: GI.WW1937
UPC: 785147041269. English. Text by Alec Powell.
Melodically , rhythmically, and lyrically rich, In Love with You expresses the way that the world looks different when one is falling in love. Leaning into a neo-Broadway style, composer Alec Powell's unique point-of-view paints a beautiful picture here.
SKU: CF.CM9787
ISBN 9781491164587. UPC: 680160923496. Key: D major. English. Original.
The text for the first voicing (SSA) of this piece came to me in the fall of 2020 while teaching at Crosby High School in Crosby, Texas. My students, though enthusiastic to be back in Choir, were struggling to cope with the civil unrest around them, in addition to the pandemic. When considering how I could help them navigate this time, I realized that they were in need of some sort of consistency, of feeling grounded in themselves. As we focused on building of community and citizenship, this text and tune came to mind, each phrase highlighting an element of personal and community wellness.I lead with my spirit keeping love in the circle around me. (Social)Expressing my spirit (Occupational)Loving what I can see and cannot see, I'll take care of the vessel I am in (Physical)I love with me that's under the skin (Emotional)Taking care of my mind (Intellectual)Envisioning the me I want to be (Spiritual)I had the honor of collaborating with composer/educator Saleel Menon to create the beautiful piano accompaniment and SATB setting.Who I Want To Be opens with a solo functioning as a mantra throughout the tune. As the piece continues, voices join in unison and harmony to emphasize the intent.When the repeats in mm. 48–51 occur, invite students to share some of their own mantras and affirmations, or feel free to borrow from the words my students in the Crosby HS choir inspired me to write:Allow yourself graceI am persistentI am fragile, not brokenYou are worthyI am worthyI know that your success is not my demise!The only validation I need is my ownI believe in myselfI see youIt’s okay to not be okayBreatheI love and I am lovedPrepare yourself for not only a powerful performance, but a rewarding experience and conversations with your students.THIS is the piece you want stuck in your students’ heads!~CRM.
SKU: ST.EM21
ISBN 9790220200854.
CONT ENTS Adieu, sweet love (SSA(or T)B) Alas, where is my love? (SSA(or T)TB) And must I needs depart? (SSATB) Ay me, my mistress scorns (SST) Beauty is a lovely sweet (SAT) Come, follow me, fair nymphs (SAT) Dame Venus hence to Paphos go (SSAT) Dear if you wish my dying (SSATTB) Down from above falls Jove (SATB) Fair Hebe, when dame Flora (SST(or A)T(or A)TB) Hark, hear you not? - Oriana's farewell (SSATB) If love be blind (SATB) Love would discharge (SST) Merrily my love and I (SST(or A)T(or A)B(or T)B) Music some think no music is (SSATTB) O fly not, love (SSA(or T)A(or T)T) Phyllis, farewell (SATB) Phyllis, farewell (SSA(or T)A(or T)TB) Sister, awake (SSATB) Strange were the life (SAATB) Sweet Gemma (SSATB) The nightingale so soon as April (SST(orA)) Those sweet delightful lilies (SSATB) Thyrsis on his fair Phyllis' breast (SSAA(or T)TB) When Oriana walked (SSATTB) Who prostrate lies (SSAT(or A)B) Wither so fast? (SATB) Yet stay alway (SSA(or T)TB) Your shining eyes (SAB).
SKU: ST.EM7
ISBN 9790220218507.
CONT ENTS A silly Sylvan (SSAAT) Ah cannot sighs, nor tears? (SSAAA (or T) B) Ah, cruel Amarillis (SST (or A)) All pleasure is of this condition (SSAT (or A) B) As fair as mourn (SAA (or T)) As matches beauty (S (or A) S (or A) TB) Change me, O heavAns (SSA (or T) B (or T)) Come shepherd swains (SSA (or T)) Despite thus unto myself (SSA (or T) A (or T) T (or B) B) Down in a valley (SSATB) Draw on sweet night (SSAA (or T) TB) Flourish ye hillocks (SST) Fly not so swift, my dear (SA (or S) A (or T) B (or T)) Happy streams whose trembling fall (SST (or A) T) Happy, oh happy he (SA (or S) A (or T) B) Hard destinies are love and beauty (SSATB) I live, and yet me thinks (S(or A) S(or A) T) I love, alas, yet am not loved (SSA (or T) B) Long have I made these hills (SSAATB) Love not me for comely grace (SAA (or T) T) O what shall I do? (SST (or A)) O wretched man (SSAT (or A) T (or B) B) Oft have I vowed (SSATB) So light is love (SSA (or T)) Softly, O softly, drop my eyes (SSAATB) Stay, Corydon, thou swain (SSATTB) Sweet honey sucking bees (SSAAB) There is a jewel (Risposta) (SST) There where I saw (SSATB) Weep, weep mine eyes (SSA (or T) TB) When Cloris heard of her Amyntas (S (or A) S (or A) A (or T) T) Where most my thoughts (SSA (or T) A (or T) T (or B) B) Ye that do live in pleasures (SSAA (or T) B) Yet, sweet take heed (SSAAB).
