New Publications

My composition Riding on the Plank, for SATB and piano, sets a poem about a bumpy and painful trip down one of these 19th century highways! The students who premiered it had a lot of fun singing it, and the history behind it provides abundant opportunities for curricular connections with your colleagues in other departments. […]

As we swing into the New Year and reconsider the political atmosphere of the past 12 months, it “strikes” me that the Gershwins’ “Strike Up the Band,” a paean to patriotism and peace written for the 1927 musical of same name, is more relevant than ever before. Back in the late ‘70s, Chanticleer premiered my […]

Dear friends, from Fidelio Musica we would like to present the world’s first publication of Misa de requiem (requiem mass) by the Spanish composer Antonio Gallego (c.1530). Antonio Gallego was a Spanish Renaissance composer whose existence has been totally unknown up to the present day. His Pro-Defunctis Mass has recently been discovered by the Spanish […]

Nixon Waterman’s poem “Today” serves to remind us that we should not allow our focus on future accomplishments to distract us from what we should be doing in the present. This new release could be considered a musical “call-to-arms” and would be ideal for a graduation ceremony, a choir’s alumni concert, or similar choral celebration. […]

A new setting of Cantate Domino is now available. This setting takes Giovanni Gabrieli’s Canzona per Sonare No. 2 and adds the text. A wonderful polyphonic piece that once was restricted to brass ensembles is now available to choirs. Click the link to see a sample and hear the piece. https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/20685933

NEW RELEASE: Colla Voce Music, LLC is excited to announce this new arrangement of “Abide With Me” by Christopher Matthews. Utilizing only the first stanza of Lyte’s stirring text, the brevity of this arrangement makes it ideal for use in a church service as a benediction or as accompaniment for a moment of prayerful reflection. […]