Choral Works (SSA)

Nine Reproducible Choral Works for Soprano and Alto Voices-Let the Women Sing! is a new reproducible collection of chorals for soprano and alto voices and is the follow-up to the best-selling collection Let the Men Sing! Folk songs holiday music spirituals inspirational songs and patriotic themes fill this nine-song collection. This budget-stretching kit includes an enhanced CD-ROM with accompaniment and performance tracks information about the composer as well as reproducible vocal parts and instrument pages. Whether you have 10 or 100 female singers this must-have collection will keep you on budget while supplying your program with excellent choral literature for your young female singers for many years to come.

The Litanies a la Viergne Noire signaled a new phase in Poulenc’s career one marked by religious choral works of a mysterious ethereal and often extremely moving nature. Not surprisingly this was influenced by personal losses in his life.A beautiful work for female (SSA) voices which features a modal chant-like style which avoids conventional cadences. Available here is the Vocal score for SSA Choir with Organ Accompaniment.

Adiemus has become one of the most familiar and distinctive choral works with Jenkins' quasi-wordless approach to vocal composition. Vocalise features music not originally composed by Jenkins but arranged and re-worked through the Adiemus concept. These five pieces offer an unusual but highly accessible suite for a chorus of high voices with Piano.

For Children's and Female Voices. Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Z. 15009), this volume includes Bartók's complete works for children's and female voices. The lyrics in this Urtext edition are in the original languages, but literal English translations are provided in the appendix, which also includes English versions of those of the 27 Two- and Three-Part Choruses that were authorized by the composer.The edition is complete with an informative preface (in Hungarian, English, and German) and detailed Editorial Comments (in Hungarian and English). The Comments give an overview of the textual, folk-music, and compositional sources, and provide detailed information on the performance practice of Bartók's choral works. The edition has been printed on high-quality and environmentally-friendly paper.This volume is also available cloth-bound, along with the volumes for male voices and for mixed voices, in slipcase (Z. 20076). Separate editions of each work included in this volume are also available.

Hugo Cole (1917-1995) was a British composer cellist and music critic. He studied under Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He is best remembered for writing several operas and choral works as well as much chamber music but he also wrote a series of pedagogical Cello books and had a successful career as a music critic for The Guardian and Country Life. Cole’s Magnificat was set in the key of G major and first published in 1957. It is scored for Female or Boys’ Choir (SSAA) with Piano accompaniment.

Bob Chilcott's Dancing in Memory's Stream for SSA and Piano.This joyous and upbeat piece sets a text by Delphine Chalmers full of vivid imagery of childhood memories and with a compelling refrain: 'Though the years may make us strangers our voices set the ripples dancing in memory's stream'. Alternation between passages of 4/4 and 7/8 gives a spirited offbeat feel and the pleasingly simple melodic lines and long unison passages make the piece especially suitable for school or children's choirs.Bob Chilcott has been involved with choral music all his life first as a Chorister and then a Choral Scholar at King's College Cambridge. Later he sang andcomposed music for 12 years with the King's Singers. His experiences with that group his passionate commitment to young and amateur choirs and his profound belief that music can unite people have inspired him both to compose full-time and through proactive workshopping to promote choral music worldwide.

Edition no.: BA 5690-90 ISMN: 9790006542819 Volume / Series: Female Choir Arranger: Breuer, Heribert / Focke, Martin Language(s) of work: Latin Language(s) of text: German, English Product format: Piano reduction Comments: For performance material please see BA 5342 Binding: Stapled Pages / Format: IV, 53 S. - 27,0 x 19,0 cm The choral scene is in a state of change! On the one hand, more and more choirs are lacking in male voices, yet at the same time, more and more female choirs are looking for high-quality literature beyond folksong arrangements. Bärenreiter is responding to these general trends with the publication of arrangements for three-part female choir (SMA) of well-known, frequently-performed works. The first editions to be published are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Coronation Mass” K. 317 (BA 5691), a much-performed work within the standard repertoire and the “Missa brevis in D major” K. 194 (BA 5690-90), a charming alternative for use in church services. With great skill and sensitivity to the music, Heribert Breuer has carefully retained the substance of the original works, at the same time giving them a completely new sound quality. - Arrangements for female choir (SMA) based on the Urtext of the “New Mozart Edition” - Idiomatic piano reductions The arranger Heribert Breuer was professor of choral conducting and music theory at the Berlin University of the Arts until 2010. He is founder and director of the Berlin Bach Akademie, and has made a name for himself with his numerous arrangements of works from Bach to Schubert.

The traditional Welsh melody Deck The Hall was arranged for SSA Female Voice Choir by David Cox with a Piano reduction for rehearsal purposes. It is dedicated to Sheila Mossman and the Orpington Junior Singers: a highly regarded girls choir which appeared at the BBC Proms and gave several other high-profile performances in the 1950s 60s and 70s.David Vassall Cox (1916-1997) was a British composer pianist and music critic. He is best known for his choral and vocal works but also spent many years working for the BBC in various roles.

The New Novello Book Of Short and Easy Anthems For Upper Voices is a wonderful collection and an invaluable resource for Upper Voice choirs who have the desire to sing a variety of beautiful anthems, but who have an unfortunately limited amount of rehearsal time. Selected and edited by David Hill, this collection includes anthems that are easy to learn, enjoyable to sing but also sound simply fantastic.Some works included in this collection are universally-loved, pieces like Ave Maria by Marcel Dupré, The Lord's Prayer by John Tavener and James Whitbourn's wonderful A Prayer Of Desmond Tutu. Despite the title of Short And Easy, these pieces are anything but mundane or tired, they are all exciting, versatile and enjoyable, making this collection perfect for any choir. The collection is an antidote to the fact that many choirs have to rehearse on a limited time, with limited resources. Learning from this collection is quick and efficient, but the songs don't compromise in beauty.With a range of styles, and settings for Eucharist and Evensong, this collection offers a carefully-chosen diversity for Upper Voice Choirs large and small. With James Davy's Sun Of My Soul, Philip Moore's Listen To The Song Of The Children and Elizabeth Poston's The Dormouse's Carol, the selection here is brilliant, including pieces for all occasions and events throughout the year. This makes Short And Easy Anthems indispensable for Upper Voice Choirs and directors who will instantly be able to draw from a wealth of songs that can be learnt quickly. The works here include simple unison settings, while most of them can be performed with some flexible scoring, allowing the music to be opened up to wider choirs.Featuring a vast number of anthems that can be learnt and sung quickly, The New Novello Book Of Short and Easy Anthems gives Upper Voice choirs a grand selection of songs that will prevent a reliance on the same ones. Whether your choir is large or small, the music contained within this collection is perfect for beautifully versatile melodies that can be learned very easily. / Choeur SSA Et Piano

One of the finest works of all Vivaldi's choral settings arranged for the upper voices by Desmond Ratcliffe. Uplifting and melodic the intoxicating tunes and spellbinding optimism of Gloria have helped it to become one of the most popular works in the Baroque choral repertoire.

Novello New Choral Series-A Gaelic Blessing is a simple and catchy piece by Craig McLeish. This piece will be particularly useful for school junior and community choirs and a tuneful introduction to singing simple contrapuntal lines.The second soprano part repeats the tune at bar 33 and should dominate here; the first sopranos and altos should support appropriately. Ease and beauty of tone should be of paramount importance throughout.An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs including sacred and secular works from simple four-part settings to moreexpansive yet accessible repertoire in an exciting variety of styles.Craig McLeish began his musical life as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral under Barry Rose. He began composing at the age of ten and his preces and responses for four trebles are still in the repertoire. After a degree at York University he returned to London to study at the Guildhall and sang again at St Paul’s as a tenor. At the time he also arranged and copied music for West End shows such as Les Miserables and Miss Saigon and played bass guitar for various groups. This led to a spell in the cult pop band ‘Fat & Frantic’ who shaved the top 100 twice with the whimsical anthem Last night my wife hoovered my head. He also worked as musical assistant for David Heneker (Half a Sixpence) and David Fanshawe (African Sanctus).In 1992 Craig became director of the Methodist Association of Youth Clubs Orchestra and Singers performing concerts throughout the UK and becoming involved in a number of recordings and BBC broadcasts. During this time he arranged more than 250 orchestral scores ranging from Queen to Calamity Jane Stravinsky and Stevie Wonder. Alongside this he began arranging and writing songs for children’s collections (Big Blue Planet Love Shone Down) and producing recordings and string arrangements for various artists (Sheila Walsh

This short benediction set to familiar words from Corinthians Thessalonians and the first book of Peter is an enduring favourite. Informally known as the Navy blessing or the Scottish blessing the words are sensitivelyenhanced by Shaw’s tune and harmonies and can create an inspiring meditative finale.Composer conductor and producer Martin Shaw was of the Holst and Vaughan Williams generation of composers that was key in reviving publicinterest in the work of Purcell and was also a co-founder of the Royal School of Church Music. He once toured Europe as conductor to dancer Isadora Duncan and was briefly engaged to the daughter of theatrical star Ellen Terry.His works number more than three hundred published pieces.

Of Noblest Cities is intended for a choir of between 12 and about 40 voices although it may also be given by just six singers one to a part (SSATBB). The piece can be performed unaccompanied if no suitable organ is available simply by leaving approximately two crotchet beats of silence between the end of the last note of one verse and the beginning of the next.Underlying the melody is a simple rhythm which is sometimes expanded or contracted. In the first verse the position of the main beats in this rhythm is made clear by the barlines. In the remaining verses however the barlines are only there to help the singers to keep together and forconvenience in rehearsal: singers should observe their own strong beats which fall in different places for each part and not regard the barlines as indicating downbeats. A few of the strong beats which underlie individual parts and appear to be contradicted by the barlines are marked by the symbol / .The words are a beautiful Victorian translation of a Latin hymn by Prudentius which meditates on the story of the three wise men. Each verse is set to the same melody in an increasingly rich counterpoint inspired by the wonderful sound of Tudor choral polyphony.An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs including sacred and secular works from simple four-part settings to more expansive yet accessible repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. Jeremy Thurlow is a composer writer and pianist. His music has been described as ‘seductive innovative full of freshness’ by Henri Dutilleux. It has been performed by the BBC Philharmonic the Fitzwilliam String Quartet Rolf Hind the BBC Singers Endymion Carmen Elektra Peter Sheppard Skaerved Matthew Schellhorn and Sequitur (New York) among others. In 2007 he won the George Butterworth Award for new composition. As a musicologist he writes on French music in

Contemporary British composer and conductor James Whitbourn an award-winning creator of Choral music film and television scores and works for the concert hall scored this simple profound poem for Djembe drum treble Voices Organ and speaker. The African drum lifts A Prayer of Desmond Tutu from a chordal evocative prayer setting and places it in history. Archbishop of South Africa Desmond Tutu was in office at the end of apartheid and the releaseof Nelson Mandela from prison. His leadership to truth and reconciliation in South Africa has been instrumental in that country’s development since 1994. He is the winner of the Nobel Prize. This poem is characteristic ofhis optimism and faith.