New Publications

Dear conductors, Diluvium” is a TTBB piece (with some divisi…) and was commissioned by a wonderful Swiss male choir, Männerstimmen Basel.The text is from a poem by Sebastian Brant, a German humanist and poet born in 1457.It’s about a great flood that took place in Switzerland in the Middle Ages.This beautiful text in Neo-Latin has […]

Looking for wonderful music for your men’s choir or just wanting to feature your lower voices, Cypress has got you covered. Here’s a lower voices feature of 19 compositions in 19 minutes! Enjoy! There’s much more! All of our Lower Voices pieces are listed here: https://cypresschoral.com/male-choir/ There’s still MORE! Peruse through PROFONDO – the Mark […]

Based on one of only several poems written by my mother, Jewish Holocaust survivor Rita Hoffman of blessed memory (1927–2018), Only from Blood Does Freedom Grow echoes the words of Hatikvah (The Hope), the national anthem of Israel. I have to believe that she wrote this poem around 1948 because of how it is worded. […]

We know how you choir directors think. Winter is coming. Frances Farrell’s “Winter Proverbs’ is the winner of Chor Leoni’s inaugural C4 composition competition in 2017, this a cappella suite for men’s voices uses secular texts to depict the many shades of winter. This suite can be performed as a group or, alternatively, the last […]

Hi ChoralNet community! Choral Composer Bill Heigen is giving free access to his Sacred Choral Music Catalog! If you are interested in having perpetual access to freshly written and accessible sacred choral music (new pieces every month), please fill up the form below: Link Google Form For more information about Bill’s secular choral pieces, feel […]

Ron Smail’s rollicking hoedown-type arrangement of Stan Roger’s tune compares the joy and freedom of growing apples in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia with life in the big city. Enjoy! Sheet Music Available https://cypresschoral.com/composers/ron-smail/watching-the-apples-grow/