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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 the individual parts are available by email from
Have fun with it!
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. This motive is heard throughout the entirety of the work as the thought of wanting to be with them keeps returning.” Take a look and listen today and don’t forget to check out the “Related Items” for more works on the topic of love for SATB voices.
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 anthems for the church composed solely by women. Sarah MacDonald is editor of this liturgical music series, and she is renowned as a conductor, composer, and organist. MacDonald serves as Fellow and Director of Music at Selwyn College in Cambridge, and director of the Girl Choristers at Ely Cathedral. The series of individual octavos will include anthems for all seasons, and includes music from long-established composers and the first publications of young composers as well. A variety of voicings will be published semi-annually, so that all choirs will find something for their own services. Many of these titles will also be useful for collegiate and community choruses. The first set of 12 anthems was published in January, 2020, with contributions from eight women: Cecilia McDowall, Eleanor Daley, Stephanie Martin, Sarah MacDonald, Sarah Cattley, Elizabeth Coxhead, Elizabeth Kimble, and Annabel Rooney, composers from the U.S., Canada, and England.
Selah is a music publisher that has helped successful church musicians since 1989, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Selah’s ecumenical publications provide high-quality resources for choirs, congregations, organists, and instrumentalists, and are available online at www.selahpub.com or through most music dealers. This series introduction is at www.selahpub.com/MacDonald.html
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 or a festival piece.