Do you have singers who struggle to match pitch?

Do you have singers who drone throughout your choir, hindering the balance and blend of your group?

What if I told you this is fixable?

Not only can your struggling singer learn to match pitch, your entire choir will benefit!

I have created a brand new online course!

How To Teach Anyone To Match Pitch

This course consists of 12 on-demand videos that will:

– bust the myths of being “tone-deaf”
– explains the main reasons a singer can’t match pitch
– explains the Choral Clarity 7-Steps to getting anyone to match pitch.

Also included are handouts that will be guide you and your singers!

I have spent the last 20+ years developing this system and apply this to every struggling singer.

How To Teach Anyone To Match Pitch

As I’ve shared more than 100 blog posts on Choralnet.org, I hope you will trust that this online course will offer an effective process!

I’m so excited for you to check it out!

I wrote my 1993 doctoral dissertation based on this set of songs. Nearly all of Zemlinsky’s music entered the Public Domain in 2012. In 2017–2018, I completed a newly edited piano/vocal score which includes my own English translations. I also orchestrated the songs and created versions of them for soprano solo and SATB chorus. Copyright issues related to several African-American song texts—in German translation only—prevented me from making these songs available sooner. Those issues were ironed-out in 2022, so I am now pleased to make my editions and arrangements available for performance. Links to watermarked PDFs of the four scores appear below.  Please contact me via my website to request performance materials: 

Available Editions:

• Piano/Vocal Score (soprano solo and piano; each song is also available separately) – link to a watermarked PDF

• Piano/Choral Score (soprano solo, SATB chorus, and piano; each song is also available separately) – link to a watermarked PDF

• Full Orchestral Score for vocal version – link to a watermarked PDF study score

• Full Orchestral Score for choral version – link to a watermarked PDF study score

• Instrumental Parts that work with both versions

Instrumentation – Chamber Orchestra:

Flute/Piccolo
Oboe/English Horn
Clarinet in B-flat/optional Soprano Saxophone in B-flat in songs 7–9
Bassoon

2 Horns in F
Trumpet in B-flat
Trombone
Tuba

Percussion

(Glockenspiel, Suspended Cymbal, Wind Chimes, Bass Drum, Timpani, Tom-toms [4]) 
Keyboard (Celesta/Piano)
Harp

Strings

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Duration:

ca. 17:00

As we head into a new year, peace and healing for our world and all of us living here is what we should hope for and endeavour to obtain. “Deep Peace, Healing Light” by Leonard Enns sets beautiful music to this heartfelt expression. Enjoy!

Available at Cypress Choral Music Publishing

DEEP PEACE, HEALING LIGHT

My most recent work is a setting of powerfully intimate words written by Mechthild von Magdeburg, one of the great medieval mystics. It is the third in a set of mystical works I have composed for intermediate/advanced women’s choir. Leave a comment if you would like for me to send you a perusal score. Here is a demo presentation:

All of my choral works are available at jwpepper.com.Information on all of my works can be found at https://www.johnnewellmusic.com.

“Mine eye hath play’d the Painter” by Michael A. Gray for SABpn is now available for free download.

A quick march chiding technique for missing the whole point. The work is part of an on-going project of setting Shakespeare’s “Book of Sonnets” to SAB choirs. You can download the pdf at
http://www.graymichael.com

See you on the flip side!
Michael A. Gray

We at Cypress had an opportunity to chat briefly with composer Darius Lim about exciting new works and his first concerts since the beginning of the world wide choral hiatus. The future looks bright and we’re looking forward to it. This piece isn’s quite an oldie but it sure is a goodie! Enjoy “A Puppet’s Dream”.

Available at Cypress Choral Music Publishing

A PUPPET’S DREAM