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America’s most beloved and prolific composer of operas and song cycles, Thomas Pasatieri continues his series of “Album Leaves” songbooks with 12 settings of diverse poetry — ranging in scope from Thackeray to French folk songs through Lotte Lehman. Texts are in English, French, and German, where appropriate. For advanced performers.

Theodore Presser Company
111-40241 - Score - $16.99  Add to Cart
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As part of the New Critical Edition of Gustav Mahler works, Das Lied von der Erde appears here in a thoroughly researched and corrected edition for voices and piano, somewhat different from the original UE publicaion of 1911. Sources indicate that the piano version was originally concieved by Mahler, in addition to the orchestral setting. The critical edition provides lengthy notes and analysis, along with examples of the composer's manuscripts. For advanced performers.

Universal Edition
UE033906 - Piano/Vocal Score - $64.95  Add to Cart
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Gordon's Autumn Valentine was created in collaboration with the premiering artists: soprano Angelina Réaux, baritone Michael Sokol, and director Kieth Warner, all poring over the short stories and poems of Dorothy Parker. In the end, Gordon composed a cycle of eleven songs and duets which tell the tale of a failed marriage. Unlike traditional opera, in Autumn Valentine, no one dies. Selected songs already appear on YouTube - listen as Audra McDonald sings The Red Dress, while Gordon, himself, performs Bric-a-Brac in a beautiful video.

Theodore Presser Company
411-41133 - Piano/Vocal Score - $19.99  Add to Cart
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Swiss composer Frank Martin was exposed to the two folk songs during a trip into the mountains, and was immediately taken with them. He took pains to transcribe the verses and melodies, then wrote piano accompaniments to complete the settings. The two songs, Chanson de métamorphoses and Il faut partir pour l'Angleterre, are lighter fare from Martin, but fine additions to the vocalist's repertoire. For intermediate to advanced.

Universal Edition
UE035923 - Score - $23.95  Add to Cart
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Commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, Dorff uses the familiar Old MacDonald to introduce children to various instruments within an orchestra, calling upon each in turn for examples of their sounds, and then merging all of the soloists into an original variation on the theme. An effective showcase for children's concerts. Dur.: 6'

Theodore Presser Company
111-40244 - Complete Set - $62.99  Add to Cart
111-40244S - Piano Score - $26.99  Add to Cart
111-40244M - Set of Parts - $45.99  Add to Cart
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British composer Elaine Hugh-Jones has set two poems by Joseph Campbell to music for medium voice and piano. Hugh-Jones has enjoyed a multi-faceted career as a professional pianist, accompanist, composer and teacher. Her keyboard training was with Dr. F.W. Wadeley, Harold Craxton and Juluis Isserlis, and compositions lessons with Sir Lennox Berkely. She was also an official accompanist for the BBC for 37 years. For advanced musicians.

Hildegard Music Publications
491-00628 - Score - $11.95  Add to Cart
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Premiered in 1988 by Renée Fleming, Ranjbaran's Three Persian Songs are disparate settings of poems by contemporary Persian authors, in English translation. Reflected in Ranjbaran's unique style are Poverty (by Ahmad Shamlu), It Is Night (Nima Yushij), and The Windows (Mehdi Akhavan-Sales), expressing alienation, darkness, and friendship, respectively. For advanced performers. Dur.: 8'

Theodore Presser Company
111-40239 - Piano/Vocal Score - $9.99  Add to Cart
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Commissioned, premiered, and frequently performed by Roundabout Opera for Kids, Mooch the Magnificent is a 40-minute opera (with a 30-minute alternate version), scored for SATB principal roles, extra speaking and non-speaking parts, and an ensemble of Clarinet, Cello, Percussion, and Piano. It may also be performed in piano reduction.

In a zoo of the future, populated not by animals but by robots in animal form, Mooch, an orphan girl, convinces the zookeeper to hire her to fix the robots when they break down, but she is actually reprogramming them to be increasingly wild. The opera takes place in a dome-covered city that is part of a worldwide network of such cities, connected by travel tubes, sealed off from the outside. The time is late twenty-first century, after human beings, afraid of the wilds, have moved indoors.

Merion Music, Inc.
441-41028 - Piano/Vocal Score - $50.99  Add to Cart
446-41293 - Chamber Study Score - $71.99 (letter size)  Add to Cart
446-41293L - Chamber Large Score - $142.99 (11 x 14)  Add to Cart
446-41293M - Set of Parts - $98.99 (includes piano score)  Add to Cart
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Along with volumes of songs to poems of Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, and Dorothy Dow, Baksa gathers together poems which have not been included in his previous collections in Poetic Women. Also set to poems by women, these seven songs were written between 1978 and 2002, and perfectly reflect the composer's impressions of the texts, in ranges that allow for maximum articulation of those texts. The PDF sample provides a glimpse of all seven songs.

Composers Library Edition
491-00642 - $37.50  Add to Cart
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Louis Gruenberg (1884–1964) came to the United States with his parents in the late 19th century, and in the early 1920s he studied with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, who also encouraged him to compose. In the late 1930s, Gruenberg moved to Hollywood, where he became a successful film score composer. The song collection Animals and Insects was written in the early 1920s, but its tonal language was too advanced for the American taste in music at the time, so it has been republished. Gruenberg adopted the humorous, folk-singing tone of poems by Vachel Lindsay, at times giving them popular, cabaret-style rhythms and also creating a more abstract sound. For advanced singers.

Universal Edition
UE007774 - Piano/Vocal Score - $29.95  Add to Cart
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The composition of the Princess Songs marked the beginning of a particularly productive phase for Karol Szymanowski. Based on a series of poems by his sister Zofia, Szymanowski composed this colorful and glittering music in 1915; its exotic, lyrical and fantastical world is expressed in the coloratura soprano’s many passages, featuring trills and rapid runs. The princess herself remains mysteriously undefined. Love is her only recurrent theme. By withdrawing into internal fantasy during a time of war, Szymanowski found an opportunity to retreat into a dream world, and composing songs remained an important part of his lifelong work; in 1933 he arranged three of the six Princess Songs for voice and orchestra. (Sakari Oramo orchestrated the other three and conducted their first performance in 2012). (Translation on UE website by Grant Chorley.)

Universal Edition
UE035837 - Piano/Vocal Score - $34.95  Add to Cart
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The Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) book of poems was a 19th-century German collection intended to scare children out of bad habits. The macabre nature of these verses inspired Lowell Liebermann to set three of the poems for Soprano, Viola, and Piano, resulting in the Struwwelpeterlieder (Slovenly Peter Songs). The publication includes the authentic 19th-century cover illustration, and translations of the poems. For advanced musicians.

Theodore Presser Company
111-40165 - $24.99  Add to Cart
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Leisner works wonders with just a baritone voice and a cello. Using a compositional style that has come upon him over the years, he has created a cycle of five songs of varied moods, based upon a German translation of classic Chinese texts. His markings ("ethereal," "with energy," "with fiery excitement," or "relaxed and simple, without artifice") impart a fair indication of the music to follow. For advanced performers.

Merion Music, Inc.
141-40083 - Two Shared Scores and Part - $36.99  Add to Cart
141-40083S - Single Score - $19.99  Add to Cart
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Lowell Liebermann sets poetry to music with three poignant songs about night, based on "Good Night" by Mark Van Doren, "She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep" by Robert Graves, and "A Variation on 'To Say to Go to Sleep'" by Randall Jarrell. This work is also available for Low Voice and Piano (111-40206). Dur.: 6’

Theodore Presser Company
111-40207 — High Voice — $8.99  Add to Cart
111-40206 — Low Voice &mdash $8.95  Add to Cart
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Lowell Liebermann has chosen six poems by Nelly Sachs, whose dark reflections of the Holocaust earned a Nobel Prize in Literature. Liebermann's poignant, somber settings are published here for soprano with piano, and are also available with orchestral accompaniment. A recording is available on “Little Heaven: Songs of Lowell Liebermann”, released on Albany Records (TROY1359)

Theodore Presser Company
111-40227 — $12.99  Add to Cart
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America’s most beloved and prolific composer of operas and song cycles, Thomas Pasatieri offers 12 songs of diverse mood and text, launching a series of Album Leaves songbooks. In this mixture of old and new songs, texts range from Shakespeare and Walt Whitman to scripture and Sheila Nadler’s “Overweight, Overwrought, Over You.”

Theodore Presser Company
111-40238 — $16.99  Add to Cart
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Germaine Tailleferre (19 April 1892 – 7 November 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six. Her works ranged from ballets to film scores to opera and much more. For the first time, Tailleferre’s “4 Pocket Operas” are available as a piano reduction-vocal score in two volumes. Volume 1 contains “La fille d’opéra” and “Le bel ambitieux,” and Volume 2 contains “La pauvre Eugénie” and “M. Petitpois achète un château.”

Billaudot
Volume 1 — 511-03076 — $72.95  Add to Cart
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Co-commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival, Virginia Opera, the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond, and Texas Performing Arts at the University of Texas at Austin, Rapahannock County pairs the outstanding and celebrated talents of composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Mark Campbell. Rappahannock County is a theatrical song cycle that captures key emotional, sociological, and historical moments in the Civil War.

Much of the text was inspired by actual events and drawn from diaries, letters, and other accounts. The narrative follows the lines of history, from secession in 1861 to defeat in 1865, and is in five parts. Although the story is centered geographically in Virginia, its themes are universal to the Civil War. It is described as such by Wes Blomster of Opera Today: “The piece has the sense of a lens closing in on a spectrum of individuals and their feelings around slavery and morality in a profound and poignant way...’ The acclaim accorded Rappahannock County by the 2,200 people who packed Norfolk’s Harrison Opera House for the premiere made clear that Gordon and Campbell had achieved their goal.”

Theodore Presser Company
411-41131 - Piano-Vocal Score - $40.00  Add to Cart
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Composed as a dramatic one-act for the first-ever collaboration between legendary divas Catherine Malfitano and Lauren Flanigan, Thomas Pasatieri’s 21st opera is based on a riveting libretto by Daphne Malfitano that keeps the audience guessing as to why these two women are living as captives in a small apartment. Dur.: 80’

Theodore Presser Company
411-41132 – Piano-Vocal Score - $24.99  Add to Cart
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It was illegal in mid-19th century Sweden for a woman to act as church organist. Elfrida Andrée, a Swedish woman who was also an organist, was responsible for overturning this ban, an early effort that led to a lifetime of music-making and, ultimately, an impressive body of work. Of the more than 100 Andrée compositions, editor Susan Pickett was especially taken with Svanen, which appears to date back to the 1880s. The present edition is based primarily upon the first publication (1890) and Andrée's own orchestral version, retaining the Böttiger text in French, German, and Swedish, along with critical notes. For intermediate to advanced performers.

Hildegard Publishing Company
491-00636 - Score and Parts - $19.95  Add to Cart
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Theodore Presser Company
111-40237 - $56.99  Add to Cart
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The four songs in Notes on the Human Comedy have little in common aside from their humorous content. Of the authors, only D. H. Lawrence is widely known - and he is known for his novels rather than his poetry. Baksa matches his writing to the texts in effective, often playful fashion. For advanced performers.

Composers Library Editions
491-00639 - $24.00  Add to Cart
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A set of four short works for tenor voice, flute, and piano from the prolific Gary Schocker focuses on a central theme: fleeting time. Dynamic and melodic in a contemporary sense, Always and Forever contains a quiet power, bordering on art song. For advanced performers.

Falls House Press
CW-GS50 - Score and Part - $14.95  Add to Cart
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The dedicatee of this Ariettina, Zinaida Aleksandrovna Volkonskaya (1792-1862), was a famous Russian princess who was known as a writer, poet, composer and singer with a renowned mezzo-soprano voice. In October 11, 1825, the Princess Volkonskaya gave a private party in her house in Moscow on the occasion of her birthday. This was a gala event that included several orchestral and theatrical presentations by many artists. We know that Sor appeared in that event as a singer, singing a duet with a certain Mlle. Akulova. The poem O dolce amor di Zefiro, written by Italian poet Angela Veronese Mantovani (1778–1847), makes up the text of this work. This edition is based on an autograph manuscript. For an advanced vocalist and players.

Editions Orphée
494-02881 — $9.95  Add to Cart
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If, as the editor states, Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy is "one of the milestones of 20th century music theatre," its path to acceptance was rather arduous. Beginning with the troubled text by Oscar Wilde, Zemlinsky dove into the work "as if in a fever." A problem arose in requesting the rights to Wilde's text, not helped by timing (and World War I), and this was but one impediment to its performance. The editor provides a complete history of the work, in historical context, along with critical commentary, which, itself is fascinating reading. There follows the complete piano-vocal score in the 1916 UE edition, with revisions in 2011. See also the new study score..

Universal Edition
UE033962 – Piano/Vocal Score – $99.95  Add to Cart
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An earlier work by a young Schickele, The Flow of Memory is a glimpse of what might have been, had the composer not developed into a different "voice." Atonal and a-tempo, the work is crafted for five almost individual performances by the ensemble, "each of whom proceeds in their own tempo," according to Schickele. The phrases surface and disappear, as fleeting as memory itself. For advanced performers. Dur.: c. 7'

Elkan-Vogel, Inc.
161-00081 — Complete set — $42.95  Add to Cart
161-00081S — Score only — $26.95  Add to Cart
161-00081M — Set of parts — $25.95  Add to Cart
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In an all-new set of German art songs, Rihm uses 13 poems of Goethe as the basis for his varied vocal compositions. The set is published in two versions, for tenor and for baritone, and is part of UE's celebration of Rihm's 60th birthday year. Dur.: 30'

Universal Edition
UE033705 – Baritone & Piano – $52.95  Add to Cart
UE033706 – Tenor & Piano – $52.95  Add to Cart
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Universal Edition UE033396 — $41.95  Add to Cart
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Cecilia Valdés, hailed as "the best Latin American novel of the 19th century," serves as the source for Gonzalo Roig's musical setting. At least one critic has hailed Roig's work as an improvement upon the tempo of the written work, with far better build-up, suited well to the operatic stage. Or, as Leo Brouwer is quoted, "The zarzuela Cecilia Valdes can be more pleasing to listen to than Verdi, and at times more profound than Meyerbeer or Bellini." Evan Hause presents this aria for soprano in piano reduction. Dur.: 4'

E.B. Marks (MarksPrint) — 491-00635 — $20.95  Add to Cart
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Robert Baksa has a deep appreciation of the writings of Emily Dickinson, and vocal arts practitioners have come to appreciate that fact. His musical lines are eminently singable, and each song communicates effectively Baksa's own understanding of the text.

"Baksa reveals her personal intimacy with her subjects... Where Copland's songs project the emotions of the poems outward as unto a large screen, Baksa's look inward to the private stirrings of the heart —drama versus lyricism... The voice brings the text to life in flowing vocal lines that are enhanced by the musical fabric that the piano weaves for each song... the melodic lines are expressive of the words." --Judith Carmen, Journal of Singing (March/April, 2008)

Composers Library Editions
491-00630 — Score — $36.95  Add to Cart
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Universal Edition UE035027 — $79.95  Add to Cart
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Kennedy uses 17th-century text by Francis Quarles for his tender wedding song, in a lovely setting for voice and guitar. He also offers an audio excerpt on his website, with sample score pages to follow along. For advanced performers. Dur.: 3'

Theodore Presser Company
111-40235 — $15.95  Add to Cart
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At the time of his partner’s tragic death, Ricky Ian Gordon found solace in Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America, befriending the playwright to produce this touchingly beautiful setting. At the request of legendary soprano Renee Fleming, it will also be scored for soprano and orchestra for a string of concerts in 2012. An orchestral accompaniment is available on rental from the publisher. Dur.: 10’

Theodore Presser Company 111-40236 — $9.95  Add to Cart
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Lowell Liebermann sets poetry to music with three poignant songs about night, based on “Good Night” by Mark Van Doren, “She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep” by Robert Graves, and “A Variation on ‘To Say to Go to Sleep’” by Randall Jarrell. This work is also available for high voice and piano (111-40207). Dur.: 6’

Theodore Presser Company
111-40206 — Score — $8.95  Add to Cart
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A long-time contest and concert favorite in its setting for women's chorus, O Lady Moon is here made available in its 1964 edition for voice, piano, and clarinet.

E.B. Marks (MarksPrint) 491-00634 — $24.95  Add to Cart
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E. B. Marks releases their 1964 edition of an important vocal solo from Roger Sessions. Written in 1930, On the Beach at Fontana is Sessions' contribution to a collection of 13 works by 13 composers, all based on James Joyce poems, and intended to honor the poet's 50th birthday in 1932.

E. B. Marks (MarksPrint) 491-00633 - $16.95  Add to Cart
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Baksa has, for years, been taken with texts of William Shakespeare, and had previously released five works for a cappella SATB chorus (see below). Now we present an augmented set of twelve vocal works with guitar accompaniment, featuring Baksa's musical lines, each exquisitely matched to the quoted text.

Composers Library Editions
491-00632 — Performance Score — $44.95  Add to Cart
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Peter Schickele has set some of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches to not only modern, but distinctly non-classical music including pop, jazz, and country styles. Written to sing along with his brother (the composer singing from the piano), the Schickele brothers have performed them to considerable acclaim at parties and assemblies, and for more than fifty years they have been the finale to the composer’s song programs, first with David Schickele, and later with David Düsing. Songs from Shakespeare is recorded (with David Düsing) on the Telarc label.

Elkan-Vogel 161-00080 — $9.95  Add to Cart
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"Schickele's trademark humor was present throughout in works ... in which famous Shakespearian texts are given hilarious contemporary settings."  --Maine Sunday Telegram

This compelling cycle composed by English composer Elaine Hugh-Jones sets four moving poems by Wilfred Owen. Hugh-Jones' many years writing for and accompanying singers have given her the expertise to treat the vocal line with great artfulness. In these songs, the piano and the singer form a true duet to bring Owen’s moving text to life.

Hildegard Publishing Company
491-00629 — Score — $14.95  Add to Cart
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Commissioned by the Young Audiences organization, Daniel Dorff’s Stone Soup: An Operatic Fable in One Delicious Act is being published for the first time by Theodore Presser Company. This work has received well over a thousand school performances in its original piano version, as well as many full productions with orchestra. Using catchy tunes, humor, and a story about food, the message that “it takes all kinds of people to make up a happy town” is heard as a clear parallel to “it takes all kinds of food to make stone soup.” Orchestra score available on custom print and parts available on rental. Dur.: 35’ See sample pages (PDF)

Theodore Presser Company
411-41126 — Piano/Vocal Score — $19.95  Add to Cart

Blank adds his own voice to the musical translation of Dickinson's poems with three diverse settings for voice, flute, and cello. He chooses A Fuzzy Fellow, Wild Nights, and I'm Nobody, matching the texts to evocative compositions. For advanced performers.

Falls House Press
CW-BL21 – $21.95  Add to Cart
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Kennedy sets five Carl Sandburg poems effectively for voice, clarinet, and piano. For a 2006 performance, Kennedy wrote, "Touch of Dreams is cyclical in design, with motifs recurring throughout the work. Most notably, a lullaby theme that is heard in the first song, I Sang, returns frequently throughout the piece to reinforce the ‘nighttime story’ theme of the poems.” For advanced performers. Dur.: c. 10'

Theodore Presser Company
111-40222 — Two Scores and Clarinet Part — $38.95  Add to Cart
111-40222S — Single Score — $19.95  Add to Cart
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On July 4th, 2011, Arvo Pärt performed his Vater Unser (Our Father) for Pope Benedict XVI at a ceremony in the Vatican celebrating the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Pärt also presented the Pope with a copy of the manuscript, which is dedicated to him. To commemorate this historical occasion, Universal Edition has released this edition of Pärt’s Vater Unser, which includes a CD recording of the composer performing the work with boy soprano Heldur Harry Põlda, who performed with Pärt at the Vatican.

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Universal Edition UE034689 — $14.95  Add to Cart
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Often called "the Ellis Island of the West," Angel Island in San Francisco was used as an immigration station in the first half of the 20th century, processing some one million Asian immigrants. Because of U.S. policy of the time, many spent years on Angel Island awaiting entry. Recently named a National Historical Landmark, Angel Island and its history is the inspiration behind Chen Yi's Angel Island Passages, commissioned by the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Chen explores the experiences of the immigrants, even using poems carved in the walls, to express the mood, the patient yearning, and the ultimate release and embrace of a new country. Angel Island Passages was premiered June 4-5, 2010 by the SFGC and the Cypress String Quartet at the San Francisco Conservatory. For advanced performers. Dur.: 15'

Theodore Presser Company
312-41859 — Choral Score — $7.95  Add to Cart
312-41859S — Full Score — $36.95  Add to Cart
312-41859M — Set of Parts — $26.95  Add to Cart
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Distance Can’t Keep Us Two Apart was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association Endowment in memory of Raymond W. Brock. The text reflects greetings of love that have been popularly used among Chinese people to share their friendship, love, trust, and encouragement. The composer was deeply inspired and encouraged by the ACDA’s vision towards the 21st century, in improving our education and communication for the new world through our music making and creation. Dur: 5’

Theodore Presser Company
312-41863 — $1.95  Add to Cart
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This gorgeous setting of a text by Francis Quarles was written especially for Scott Williamson and the Virginia Chorale. Though implicitly sacred, this work’s lullaby quality transcends the spiritual genre and would be suitable for concert use as well. Dur.: 5’

Theodore Presser Company 312-41862 — $1.65  Add to Cart
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We are pleased to present a short, fun duet (or two-part choral) from Schickele, long featured on his personal programs. If You Will Try It was written for the 86th birthday of Schickele's mother.

Elkan-Vogel, Inc.
362-03422 - $1.50  Add to Cart
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Composed in response to 9/11, this optimistic and peaceful text is equally appropriate for secular and sacred use, with inspirationally calming music. Dur.: 2’

Theodore Presser Company
312-41861 — $1.50  Add to Cart
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Theodore Presser Company announces the release of its first P.D.Q. Bach octavo in about ten years, a hilarious and satirical ode to the King of France, who was beheaded during the French Revolution, complete with sound effects. The historical tie-in makes Long Live the King appropriate for high school choir in particular. The program notes have a fictitious story about how the composer found an old manuscript written by his departed uncle, with a note - “I have just composed a major choral work in honor of the recent revolution in France, called Long Live the King; the title, I hasten to assure you, is meant to be ironic – my sympathies are always with the people, especially the people who run taverns. The invention of the guillotine gives, I think you will agree, new meaning to the term “head of state.” For intermediate choirs.
Duration: 2'

Theodore Presser Company
312-41856 • $1.65  Add to Cart

Commissioned by the composer’s college music instructor, William Reese, for his choir in Rockland County, New York, Schickele’s setting of the first part of the Magnificat text. It was premiered in April of 1998 by the Rockland Camerata. As most of Schickele’s choral works are secular, this is a rare and truly lovely contribution to the sacred choral library from a well-known composer. From Schickele’s notes: “In the outer sections of the work the three musical entities (chorus, piano, and the strings) are given overlapping homophonic phrases much in the manner of Monteverdi’s and the Gabrielis’ antiphonal choir pieces in early 17th-century Venice, although, of course, the harmonic language is completely different. The middle sections feature lyrical vocal lines over repeated instrumental figures, leading to a climactic ending.” String parts available on rental. Duration: 4’30”

Theodore Presser Company
362-03418 • $1.80  Add to Cart

The earliest of Ives’s many psalm settings, Psalm 42 (As Pants the Hart) was said to be premiered when the composer was 16, with sketches beginning several years earlier. The setting is a fairly traditional verse anthem with organ interludes and a vocal solo, illustrating Ives’s early mainstream writing, and occasional glimpses of the young composer’s penchant for surprise. Dur. 3’30”

Merion Music, Inc.
342-40197 — $2.25  Add to Cart
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Inspired by and composed upon four evocative poems of Paul Pines, Daniel Asia’s The She Set is a choral cycle whose movements are titled "Isis in Despair" (celebrating the myth of Isis and Osiris), "Orpheus" (celebrating Eurydice), the longer third movement title "She," of broader and more abstract celebration, capped by the epilogue "Prayer Before Drowning." The She Set has been recorded by the BBC Singers, conducted by Odaline de la Martinez (Summit Records DCD550). Dur.: 9’

Merion Music, Inc.
342-40200 — $2.95  Add to Cart
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Daniel Asia’s Sound Shapes is a fascinating trilogy of studies in choral sonority and vocal textures, enriched by pitchpipes – often in relief to the pitchless choral effects rather than their more familiar role in cueing pitches. Sound Shapes has been recorded by the BBC Singers, conducted by Odaline de la Martinez, on Summit Records (DCD550). Dur.: 8’

Merion Music, Inc.
342-40199 — $2.95  Add to Cart
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Spring Rain was commissioned by the Singapore Anglo-Chinese Junior College Choir, directed by Valerie Wilson. The text, sung in Chinese, is from an ancient Chinese poem by Du Fu (712-770), titled “Happy Rain on a Spring Night.” Dur.: 4’

Theodore Presser Company 312-41858 - $1.95  Add to Cart
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Sung in English and interspersed with Chinese nonsense syllables, With Flowers Blooming is a fascinating blend of folk-style melodies and rich exploratory textures for a cappella women’s chorus. The 8th-century text celebrates happy leading to flowers blooming; Chen Yi has also composed a Chinese-language setting of the same poem with different music for SATB chorus, Spring Rain (312-41858). Dur.: 4’

Theodore Presser Company 312-41860 — $1.80  Add to Cart
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This has proven to be an invaluable resource, and Theodore Presser Company is pleased to have four of our new choral works featured in their 2010 package! Below is a sampling of the Part by Part offering, which also includes all new 2012 chorals from BriLee Music, as well.