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Modern edition by James Johnson ASCAP 1551618.  This extraordinarily beautiful SATB motet for Maundy Thursday or Good Friday by Pierre de la Rue (c 1460-1518) is composed over two separate texts heard simultaneously. In soprano, tenor and bass the ancient chant "Vexilla regis prodeunt—" is heard, while the alto sings "Passio domini Jesu Christi—" announcing […]

TTBB setting of A. E. Housman’s poignant late autobiographical poem. As a student at Oxford Housman had fallen in love with a classmate, Moses Jackson who admired him greatly but could not share his feelings. Jackson later married without informing Housman and moved to Canada, and from that great distance he eventually resumed contact.    All my […]

Lighthouse Music Publications has recently released the following works:   Annunciation (2-part, melody instrument, piano) – Richard Nye Cradled in a Manger (SATB, flute, piano) – David Barton Holy, Holy, Holy (SATB) – Rick Bartlett Hostias et Preces (SATB) – Richard Nye I Saw a New Heaven (SATB) – Richard Nye Lord, Art Thou to Me (SATB, organ or piano) – […]

The arrangements of Danny Boy and Molly Malone are ready. You can listen to them on fabioalessi.webs.com. The score are free. In the case you are interested, just follow the instructions on my page. Best Regards Fabio

I have a new setting of  Ave Maria (in Latin) for SATB (with some div in the sopranos and altos) and cello. The choir music is chant-like (very multi-metered) in a homophonic texture and the cello part requires a very good player. I wrote it in memory of a choir member who passed away last year with […]

A simple setting of A. E. Housman’s well-known poem for SATB, but really in three parts  since T & S are in octaves, in the style of some early American hymn tunes. Easy.   All my works are written into Sibelius, and available directly from me in PDF or actual printed format, with each transaction […]