New Publications

MusicEase Software is pleased to announce the release of the Christian Virtual Hymnal 10K providing transposable sheet music for over 10,000 hymns, Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem.

Hymns can be transposed to any key, scaled to different sizes and automatically reformatted, verses can be deleted/re-ordered/fully edited, and any combination of parts can be extracted. The music can be displayed as standard music, chord charts, or shape notes. Many other customizations are available.

Complete information is available via our website at www.cvhymnal.com. A free evaluation version is available at www.cvhymnal.com/download.html. The Christian Virtual Hymnal 10K is available for both Windows and the Mac.

Included here are examples of several of the many different ways the exact same hymn can be displayed/printed in the Christian Virtual Hymnal 10K.

I’m excited to announce that Personage Press has published three recent compositions of mine for a cappella SATB choir. All of them will well reward the effort your choir puts in with unexpected sonorities, rhythmic interest, and dramatic text-painting. The pieces are:

As kingfishers catch fire: a Brittenesque, polyrhythmic setting of the Gerard Manley Hopkins sonnet, about 2.5 minutes long. Perusal demo video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APF37yht3r0

O Clavis David: an upbeat, 5/4 Advent antiphon, about 4.5 minutes long. Perusal demo video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBoWtwwHLE

Songs in Time of Peril: a largely octatonic three-movement cycle setting Hebrew sacred texts from Job, Psalms, and Micah; about 17 minutes for the whole set, but each movement can stand on its own. Premiere performance video of movement 3 available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCrSuB65HOs

All these pieces are available through personagepress.com, Sheet Music Plus, and my score purchase page, nicholasweininger.com/scores. I’ve also made eight more pieces from my catalogue available through Sheet Music Plus Press, all of which can also be found on my score purchase page. Happy perusal!

“From Where We Stand” is a stirring, patriotic anthem that is especially needed at this time. It is the finale song from the upcoming musical “American Twistory” with Larry King as the executive producer. It is available at no charge for performances in the hopes that it will inspire and unite all Americans.

A link to the music is: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/SQX03HEfZw
(note: press download arrow)

A link to the lyrics is: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/MIrt0alN4z

For sheet music and additional information, please contact Sandy Sherman
Tel. 310-541-3487

You can read for free DIRIGO, the new Magazine of the National Association of Italian Choral Directors, at our website https://www.dirigo.cloud/en/

Announcement to the Choralnet Community:

Paul Ayres has just written a Latin text a cappella Mass for Two Voices — it’s a setting that we hope may be useful, especially at the moment. As no-one has sung this yet, there’s no live recording to share, but there is a very basic piano playthrough here:

A perusal PDF score, plus ordering link, can be found here:

https://www.paulayres.co.uk/catalogue/522

Kate Simmons (Paul’s promotion assistant)

Another free piece to choir directors until its publication date, Oct. 19th, “as the snow falls”. Includes permission to make copies for your choir(s). Email request to . Please include your position and location, and I will send you PDFs for your use.
Listen at https://youtu.be/DTTGebJZ_kw
“as the snow falls” is a newly composed choral setting for mixed choir and piano which can be an effective addition to winter and holiday concerts as well as advent services. The melody sings gently with tenderness and expression and has the feeling of a traditional carol.