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 […]
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Comme Une Rose – Anthony Sylvestre (for SATB choir (divisi) a cappella)
Hello, I’ve just composed a few days ago a new choral work entitled ‘Comme Une Rose’, for a cappella SATB choir (divisi) with French lyrics. Performance Time: 5’05. Listen to the demo here with English subtitles: https://youtu.be/OqLnLF_yPDE. Digital sheet music available on the website ASTURIA MUSIC : Comme Une Rose – sheet music. This song […]
Messiah Sheet Music
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 Very Valentine (SSA) – Quick to learn!
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 […]
2013 Edition of “Kol Nidre” – Setting by Henry Russotto – Adapted and Edited by Stanley M. Hoffman
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 […]
Midnight Sea – by Robert Rival
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 […]