Humphrey Clucas is known for a wide range of choral and vocal music alongside a growing body of instrumental music and this beautiful and evocative song is set to words by A.E. Housman. Originally for voice and lute Evenfall also works well with piano accompaniment and the edition includes versions for high voice (A minor) and low voice (E minor). The accompaniment is simple and supportive allowing the flowing melody to soar above with a tonal and accessible style which should appeal to singers of all ages and abilities.Humphrey Clucas was born in 1941 and read English at King's College Cambridge where he was also a Choral Scholar. Having taught Englishfor twenty-seven years he subsequently became a Lay Vicar at Westminster Abbey but is now retired. As a composer he is self taught and although he is well-known for a set of Anglican Responses written as an undergraduate almost all his serious music has been written over the last twenty-five years. He has a growing reputation as a choral composer and has produced an impressive and steady stream of choral works both sacred and secular alongside much instrumental music. He has written works for Cathedrals in Chichester Guildford Salisbury and Winchester as well as for King's College Cambridge Southwell Minster and Westminster Abbey.

10 Inspirational Songs for Solo Voice-Greg Gilpin has compiled a book containing inspirational vocal solos that will touch the heart of both the singer and listener. Why We Sing: Ten Inspirational Songs for Solo Voice includes: Through the Eyes of a Child • All Things Bright and Beautiful • A Christmas Trilogy • I Hear Liberty Singing • In Many Wonderful Ways • Maybe We'll Meet Again • Rock Me to Sleep • The Face of Love • Think on Me • Why We Sing. These titles have been choral favorites and are now available for solo voice and an accompaniment CD. This solo collection can be used for both secular and sacred performances throughout the year and will certainly be a treasured addition to the vocal soloist's library.

230 folk songs and spirituals religious and secular arranged for piano and voice. From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans - at work in church and for pure entertainment. Included are spirituals blues work songs and a variety of social and dance songs.This is an indispensable treasury of music for singers musicians and all readers seeking a comprehensive sourcebook of black American folk music. It will be equally welcomed at parties family get-togethers sing-alongs church events and other gatherings where people want to play and sing these classic folk songs thatare an integral part of American musical history.

Lyrical direct and exhibiting a masterful understanding of vocal writing Carl Vine’s secular cantata for soprano and strings The Tree of Man is a gift to audience and musicians alike. The 11-minute work written in 2012 for the Australian Chamber Orchestra and soprano Daniele de Niese is based on a passage from a novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick White. Vine knew White personally (having written music for several of his stage plays in the 1980s) and his setting perfectly complements the simplicity and sincerity of the prose. The music moves in an arc from its quietly insistent beginnings and rhapsodic central section to a hauntingconclusion where the brooding opening returns before evaporating into the air...