New Publications

MusicEase Software has released Messiah Sheet Music which provides transposable, customizable sheet music and MIDI for the full score of Handel’s Messiah. Features include: Scale the music to different sizes and automatically reformat it to fit the margins/page size; Use any available font and size for lyrics; Extract any combination of parts; Scale any combination […]

A brief, delightful and whimsical setting of a text by American poet Gertrude Stein, by composer Rich Campbell. It may be learned quickly. It is almost entirely built on a round, which underscores the poem’s wordplay. For 3-part treble choir, with piano accompaniment. Secular. A winner of the “Pioneering Voices” composition competition at Mt. Holyoke […]

If you are looking for a new engraving of this public domain setting in its original form, you have come to the wrong place. When I set about the task of typesetting it, the reason was that I could not find a clean copy of it anywhere, either in paper form or as a PDF […]

In 1874, Charles M. Scammon, captain of the U.S. Revenue Marine, published Marine Mammals of the North-Western Coast of North America, a thick tome documenting his experience as a whaler on the American west coast Whaling has since come to be regarded, rightfully, as cruel and unsavoury. Yet Scammon’s curiosity was such that he made […]

Love Came Down at Christmas was first written for my church as a closing one verse unison benediction for the Services in Advent,  2021.  I later expanded the lovely  Christina Rossetti text into a choral piece for the North Mesquite Chamber Singers, Ryan Forkner director.  This choral version  was sung at their concert in 2022 […]

Here is a delightful and accessible canon for up to four parts that can be done in any number voicings such as SATB, SSAA, young children, etc…. It paraphrases Psalm 96:1-2. I’ve done it with children’s choirs, SATB festival, and SATB HS choir. Enjoyed by all and a great learning piece. Full perusal score and […]