Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day is an English carol usually attributed as 'traditional'; its first written appearance is in William B. Sandys' Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern of 1833. It is most well known in John Gardner's adaptation but numerous other composers have made original settings of it or arranged the traditional tune including Gustav Holst  Igor Stravinsky. The verses of the hym…

Angelus ad Virginem describes the Annunciation the biblical event in which the Angel Gabriel communicated with Mary about the forthcoming birth of Jesus. The tranquil music is intended to depict the angelic voice of Gabriel and the voice of Mary through its chant-like nature and exotic shifting harmonies. Douglas Mason began his musical training as a chorister in Gloucester Cathedral Choir un…

We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance is a collection of some of the finest pieces of choral music on the theme of remembrance. We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance is suitable for church, cathedral, school, youth and community choirs. It contains music appropriate for Remembrance Sunday services, and beautiful pieces suitable for concerts, memorial and funeral services and other ac…

Ces magnifiques volumes permettront d'initier les chanteurs classiques à l'American art song, et comprennent les pièces les plus étudiées dans ce genre. Ce sont les capacités vocales et musicales des institutions musicales et universités qui ont guidé le choix des oeuvres mises à disposition dans cette série. Les volumes Soprano et Mezzo-Soprano/Alto contiennent les mêmes chansons dans des tonalit…

Renowned Welsh composer Paul Mealor's Sanctuary Haunts was commissioned by the University of Aberdeen and first performed by the award-winning choir 'Polyphony.' This sheet music is for unaccompanied SATB Choir (with divisi). The piece lasts around 12 minutes and is split into three settings: I. Sanctuario by R.S Parkes (trans. John Barnes)II. Lantern of Stone by Peter DavidsonIII. Locus Iste Eac…

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's Quodlibet for Baritone String Quartet and Piano (or Harp) dating from 2009. Written for Leigh Melrose and the Hebrides Ensembleon the occasion of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th birthday. The text paraphrases fragments of William Shakespeare: 'Music to Hear'and John Dowland: 'Flow my Tears'.

Score-Paul Creston's Liberty Song '76 for Band.Liberty Song '76 is based on three principle songs of the Revolutionary period: 'The Liberty Song ' the first American patriotic ballad written by John Dickinson to the tune of 'Hearts of Oak'by William Boyce; 'Enraptured I gaze' by Francis Hopkinson the earliest American composer of secular music and a signer of the Declaration of Independance; and …

The piece The Farthest Shore was expertly composed by British composer Paul Mealor. The Farthest Shore was commissioned by the John Armitage Memorial Trust St Davids Festival and Edinburgh Royal Choral Union and first performed at St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh conducted by Michael Bawtree.Mealor was catapulted to international attention when 2.5 billion people heard his motet Ubi caritas p…

Par BRALEY BERNARD. Bernard Braley The first volume in a series telling in depth the life stories of some great hymnwriters. The stories can easily be turned into occasional performances of hymns with interspersed readings. There are numerous quotations helpful to this end. The volume covers Thomas Ken, Reginald Heber, John Ellerton and William Walsham How. The book is full of the unexpected and m…

Chanteur, compositeur, théoricien de la musique, Thomas Ravenscroft (vers 1590-1635) est passé à la postérité comme collecteur et premier éditeur de chansons populaires et de canons anglais (rounds ou catches).
Conçus pour être chantés à l'unisson dans des tessitures variées, les canons étaient également appréciés sur des instruments tels que flûte à bec ou violes.
Les canons s'appuient su…