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 […]
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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 […]
Endless Time – SSA with piano by Ivo Antognini
Hello conductors! my new piece “ENDLESS TIME” is now available for direct download. ENDLESS TIME (SSA & piano) by IVO ANTOGNINI It’s a setting of this wonderful Rabindranath Tagore poem: Time is endless in thy hands, my lord. There is none to count thy minutes. Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like […]
Christian Virtual Hymnal 20K released
MusicEase Software has just released the Christian Virtual Hymnal 20K, providing transposable, highly customizable, searchable sheet music and MIDI for 20,000 public domain Christian hymns and shape note hymns plus the full scores of Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem. Transpose to any key, resize and easily reformat, delete/re-order verses, extract any combination of parts, optionally […]
INSIDE – by Kathryn Parrotta
Kathryn Parrotta’s “INSIDE” is an energetic a cappella ear-worm for youth choirs. Perfect for themes of community, unity, and inclusion, “INSIDE” has a main message that “inside we’re all the same”. With basic body percussion and prescribed choreography (easy), singers will feel compelled to perform it with authority and conviction. This piece is a cousin […]