New Publications

For your kind consideration, I offer a selection of my compositions for Lent and the Easter Season.  https://www.bobmooremusic.com/compositions Highlights include:   Defenseless Now He Hangs (text by Herman Stuemplfe) Easter Introit (SATB with organ, trumpet and opt. chimes/handbells) Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven (SAB with piano)               […]

Looking for a happy, sunny song for your summer concert? This unaccompanied SATB setting of The Peanut Vendor will light up your choir and have the audience on the edge of their seats. Here’s a computer playback to give you some idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvgU-Gw1N6s&t=4s The full score and sound files of the whole thing and of […]

HOT OFF THE PRESSES! My new edition of 18th Century composer Johann Caspar Aiblinger’s CONFITEBOR TIBI (Psalm 111) for SATB choir with keyboard or optional strings (Carl Fischer CM9655). Highly accessible for younger mixed choirs and beyond. Aiblinger adds some striking harmonic twists to this Classical period piece!

From the Composer: “The setting of this work expresses the hollowness of longing and intimacy to be with the one you love. This interpretation begins with the single tone that is followed by the two-note motive in the top melodic line to give a feeling of hollowness, your longing to be with one you admire. […]

The Sarah MacDonald Choral Series — Music for the church [by women] The only way to have more women composers’ music used in our church services and choir performances is to find good compositions and then program them. But these anthems have been hard to find. Selah is pleased to announce a new series of […]

Introducing a new piece for your TTB ensemble – “Good Timber.” A powerful text and beautiful melody await your TTB group in this lovely setting of the Douglas Malloch poem about how hardships and struggles make for a better man. Accessible to your junior high or high school group, it works well as a concert […]