Choral Music

Title: Sigh No More Ladies, Four Songs from Shakespeare.
Scored for: SAB Chorus and Piano
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Catalog: AWP0015
Level: High School level and up.         
Description: A set of four short choral settings (with piano accompaniment) of four of the song lyrics found in Shakespeare plays.

1. It Was a Lover and His Lass (c. 2′, 10″)
2. Sigh No More, Ladies (c. 2′)
3. Take, O Take Those Lips Away (c. 1′, 40″)
4. O Mistress Mine (c. 2′, 20″)
   (©, 2012)
   
   

Title: Caroling
Scored for: SATB voices
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Catalog: AWP0020
Level: All levels
Description: A collection of 115 carols presented in traditional hymn-book form. designed to be used for holiday caroling.
(©, 2016)

Title: Spring Returns, Three New Madrigals on Old Madrigal Texts
Scored for: SAB chorus and piano
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Catalog: AWP0024
Level: High School and above
Description: Four new settings of 16^th cent. Madrigal lyrics.

1. Spring Returns (c. 1′ 25″)
2. Rest, Sweet Nymphs (c. 1′ 50″)
3. Mother, I Will Have A Husband (c. 2′, 30″)
   (©, 2016)

Title: Six Sifted Thistles
Scored for: SAB chorus and piano
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Catalog: AWP0029
Level: High School and above
Description: Six Mother Goose Settings.

1. The Queen of hearts (2′ 10″)
2. Little Boy Blue (1′ 40″)
3. Thomas A’ Tattamus (38″)
4. Solomon Grundy (55″)
5. Theophilus Thistle (1′ 25″)
6. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (1′)
   (©, 2017)

Title: I Am, You Anxious One (c.5’35”)
Scored for: a cappella choir a4
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Catalog: AWP0030
Level: College:
Description: SATB a cappella setting of a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke from “Poems from the Book of Hours,” in translation by Babette Deutsch (by permission from New Directions Publishing). This was written for a commission by Sine Nomine choir.
(©, 2017)

Title: O Come, Let Us Sing (3′)
Scored for: A cappella chorus (SATB)
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Catalog: AWP0032
Level: College
Description: SATB a cappella setting based on Psalm 95. This was written for a commission by the Bucks County Choral Society, 1997 for their director, Elma Heckler on her Twentieth Anniversary as Artistic Director
(©, 1998)

Title: Psalm Settings of the Scottish Psalter (1650), Vol. I, Psalms 1 – 10
Scored for: A cappella chorus (SATB)
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Catalog: AWP0047
Level: Experienced
Description: These are choral (SATB) settings of the metrical psalms found in the Scottish Psalter of 1650. This first volume includes settings of psalms 1 through 10.
(©, 2020)

Title: Psalm Settings of the Scottish Psalter (1650), Vol. II, Psalms 11 – 20
Scored for: A cappella chorus (SATB)
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Catalog: AWPP0081
Level: Experienced
Description: These are choral (SATB) settings of the metrical psalms found in the Scottish Psalter of 1650. This first volume includes settings of psalms 11 through 20.
(©, 2020)

Title: Three American Settings (6′, 30″)
Scored for: SATB Choir & piano
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Catalog: AWPP0085
Level: H.S.
Description: These three settings are adapted from shape-note hymns: 

1. Consolation 
2. When Jesus Wept
3. Evening Shade 
(©, 1985)

Title: Song For The Nativity (2′, 30″)
Scored for: SATB Choir & piano
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Catalog: AWPP0092
Level: H.S.
Description: This is a new setting of the late Medieval carol tune, Personent Hodie
(©, 2022)

Title: Psalm Settings of the Scottish Psalter (1650), Vol. III, Psalms 21 – 30
Scored for: A cappella chorus (SATB)
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Catalog: AWPP0094
Level: Experienced
Description: These are choral (SATB) settings of the metrical psalms found in the Scottish Psalter of 1650. This first volume includes settings of psalms 21 through 30.
(©, 2022)

Title: The Gouty Carol (4′, 35″)
Scored for: SATB Choir & piano
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Catalog: AWPP0102
Level: H.S.
Description: This is a setting of the wonderfully odd Provencal carol, Recueil des noëls provençaux.
(©, 1998)