1000 Christmas Hymns was released earlier this year. It contains transposable, customizable sheet music and MIDI for over 1200 Christmas hymns and carols. No CCLI license is needed. Resize, delete/re-arrange verses, display as SATB or lead sheet with chord names or Integrity Music style chord charts, optionally display using shape notes, etc. Our website at […]
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The Heavenly Son – by Dr. Larry Nickel
“The Heavenly Son” is a Christmas classic from Dr. Larry Nickel. This delightfully singable and easily memorable piece will be a joy for your choir to sing and audience to hear at your choir’s Christmas concert. Enjoy! Sheet Music available – https://cypresschoral.com/composers/larry-nickel/west-coast-mennonite-chamber-choir/the-heavenly-son/
HOPE for SAATB Chorus (2024) | Text by Emily Dickinson
HOPE was composed this year for a call for scores for the Atlanta Master Chorale. While it was not chosen, this brief, attractive, easy-to-perform choral work awaits a world premiere performance Click here to view and hear a scrolling score music video of HOPE on YouTube which was created using the NotePerformer sound engine. Click […]
Musica International – Favorite Piece of November 2024
The Favorite Piece of Musica for November 2024 is “Shine, little light” by David Massong (Germany) published by Helbling Musikverlag KG in 2023.A soft piece for four voices, ideal to give a light of hope to those who doubt. Find all the details about this piece at https://www.musicanet.org/fr/cdc/202411/ Video illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZT5AuuLVXw Musica International is a […]
Melissa Dunphy in St. Louis
Philadelphia-based composer, Melissa Dunphy, travels to St. Louis (MO) for the first performance of her arrangement of “Hurt” by Trent Reznor. This exploration of drug addiction and psychological despair was a powerful song of its time (1994) and best known through interpretations by both Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash. The new version is scored […]
Wyandot’s Realm (Huron Carol) – by Andrew Balfour
The “Huron Carol” is Canada’s oldest Christmas song, written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Huron Tribe in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wyandat people; the song’s original Huron title is “Jesous Ahatonhia” (“Jesus, he is born”). The beloved carol has […]