OUP Women Composers Orchestral, Opera, Chamber, Instrumental and Choral Catalogue

Women Composers 

Orchestral, Opera, Chamber, 

Instrumental and Choral 

Catalogue

Women Composers Catalogue 

This catalogue draws together a complete list of works by women composers published 

by Oxford University Press. The works encompass a wide variety of styles, subjects and 

instrumentation - including full orchestral and choral works, individual choral leaflets/ octavos, 

repertoire for small ensemble and pieces for solo instruments or voice. You will find works by 

living composers including Sarah Quartel, Cecilia McDowall, Libby Larsen, Hilary Tann, Nikki 

Iles, Becky McGlade and more, as well as historical composers including Rebecca Clarke, Grace 

Williams and Phyllis Tate. 

Each composer section is divided by instrumentation, and choral titles are divided into Sacred, 

Secular, Advent & Christmas and Spirituals. 

If you would like to find out more information about any of the composers or pieces featured in 

this catalogue, please get in touch. 

Catalogue Guide: 

Choral Sacred 

Choral Secular 

Choral Advent & Christmas 

Choral Spirituals 

Orchestral/ Ensemble 

Opera 

Solo Instrumental 

Solo Voice 

† - Title made available individually from an anthology in digital format only. 

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Contents 

4.........Kerry Andrew 

5.........Carol Barnett 

5.........Barbara Bell 

5.........B. E. Boykin 

6.........Valerie Capers 

7.........Rebecca Clarke 

13.......Valerie Showers Crescenz 

14.......Sarah Dacey 

15.......Eleanor Daley 

17.......Reena Esmail 

18.......Jeanette Gallant 

19.......Malin Gavelin 

19.......Nina Gilbert 

20.......Elaine Hagenberg 

21.......Laura Hawley 

22.......Imogen Holst 

24.......Laura Jekabsone 

25.......Betty Jackson King 

26.......Nikki Iles 

28.......Libby Larsen 

44.......Jenny Mahler 

45.......Cecilia McDowall 

62.......Becky McGlade 

65.......Jenny McLeod 

65.......Selga Mence 

66.......Tawnie Olson 

66.......Dorothy Papadakos 

67.......Nina Perry 

67.......Kim Porter 

68.......Elizabeth Poston 

69.......Rosephanye Powell 

70.......Sarah Quartel 

80......Andrea Ramsey 

80.......Val Regan 

81......Earlene Rentz 

82.......Zanaida Steward Robles 

82......Annabel Rooney 

83......Debra Scroggins 

84......Martha Shaffer 

85......Joan Szymko 

86......Hilary Tann 

94......Phyllis Tate 

106...Ellen Gilson Voth 

106...Judith Watson 

107...Nancy Wertsch 

108...Grace Williams

Kerry Andrew 

Charm 

SSAA unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193527560 

Digital 9780193544741 

Setting the modernized words of an Anglo-Saxon metrical 

charm, this thrilling piece is unusual, dramatic, and 

beguiling. Featuring a whispered list of potion ingredients 

for the intro and outro, it also includes whistling, modal 

touches, and some very funky riffs—to be performed with 

freedom, energy, and imagination! 

2.5 minutes 

The Contest of the Ivy and the 

Holly 

SATB unaccompanied 

Digital † 9780193544734 

Originally published in The Ivy and the Holly, Andrew’s 

polymetric setting of this traditional text is evocative 

and energetic, with sustained vocalizations and creative 

melodies that bounce around the voices. 

4 minutes 

- Kerry Andrew - 

b. 1978 

Kerry Andrew is a composer, performer and author 

and the winner of four British Composer Awards. 

With a PhD in composition from the University of 

York, Kerry specialises in experimental vocal and 

choral music, music-theatre and community music, 

and as a performer, sings with the award-winning 

Juice Vocal Ensemble and with her alt-folk band You 

Are Wolf. 


The earth hath voice 

SATB (with soprano semi-chorus), piano, & 

optional percussion (bass drum, tam-tam/gong, & 

3 tom-toms) 

Vocal score 9780193379633 

This is a colourful and dramatic celebration of nature 

and its powerful and hypnotizing sounds. The listener is 

taken on a captivating journey through the natural world, 

via ‘tongues of thunders’, the ‘singing sea’, and ‘trumpetthroated 

winds’. Clustered harmonies, cross-rhythms, 

and vocal effects are combined with bell-like passages 

and rippling figurations in the piano, and the optional 

percussion part adds further rhythmic and dynamic 

interest. The semi-chorus part can be sung by one or more 

sopranos or a children’s choir. 

5 minutes 

Hevene Quene 


Vocal score 9780193355606 

Digital 9780193550506 

The composer has combined a single line of Latin, ‘O virgo 

splendens’, with an earthy, late 13th-century Marian text 

in Middle English to create a work which reflects both 

the divine and the human qualities of the Virgin Mary. 

Beginning and ending with plainchant-style passages, 

Hevene Quene is by turns restrained, sparkling, pensive, and 

pleading. Suitable for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary 

and for concert use, this is an approachable and rewarding 

anthem. 

5 minutes 

O lux beata Trinitas 


Vocal score 9780193359055 

This luminescent setting of ‘O lux beata Trinitas’ (ascribed to 

St Ambrose) uses a variety of textures and vocal techniques 

to reflect the joy expressed in the text - from simple 

homophony to improvisatory techniques and free metre. 

5 minutes 

Choral Leaflets Sacred 

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Adam and the Mother 

SSATB (optional Soprano solo) unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193365674 

Combining a number of early lullaby texts in one setting, 

Adam and the Mother is a haunting carol recalling the fall 

of Adam. It combines irregular melodic lines with lilting 

ostinato passages and will appeal to experienced choirs 

looking for a unique addition to the Christmas repertory. 

4 minutes 

- Carol Barnett - 

Angelus ad virginem 

SATB unaccompanied and opt. tambourine 

Vocal score 9780193393073 

This is a spirited arrangement of the popular fourteenthcentury 

carol for mixed voices, with an optional part for 

tambourine in the final verse. The familiar melody weaves 

between the vocal parts, and the piece is characterized 

by medieval harmonies and a rocking thirds motif. An 

English singing translation is presented alongside the 

original Latin, allowing choirs to perform the carol in either 

language. 

3 minutes 



La Berceuse (French Lullaby) 

arr. Rutter 

SATB and piano or chamber orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193413870 

Digital 9780193536357 

Hire conductor’s score and parts 9780193512047 

This charming carol, composed in 1975 by Barbara Bell, 

was discovered by John Rutter, who enlisted the help of 

John Suchet and Classic FM to track down the composer. 

Haunting in character, but with a delightful French waltz 

feel and a sweeping piano part, La Berceuse has been 

recorded by Voces8 on the Decca label. 

4 minutes 

- Barbara Bell - 


Music of Life 

SSA or SABar & piano 

SSA vocal score 9780193561670 

SSA Digital 9780193561687 

SABar vocal score 9780193561700 

SABar Digital 9780193561717 

Music of Life is a vibrant setting of a poem by George 

Parsons Lathrop that describes how music underpins all 

earthly life. An active piano part provides an energetic 

undercurrent to compelling vocal lines, with the voices 

beginning in unison before opening out into two and then 

three parts. 

3 minutes 

- B. E. Boykin - 


Andrew - Barnett 

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Valerie Capers 

- Valerie Capers - 

b. 1935 

Dr. Valerie Capers was born in the Bronx and 

received her early schooling at the New York 

Institute for the Education of the Blind. She earned 

her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The 

Juilliard School of Music, the first blind person to do 

so. For several years she served on the faculty of the 

Manhattan School of Music. She was also a member 

of the faculty in the Department of Music and Art at 

Bronx Community College of the City University of 

New York (CUNY) where she introduced several jazz 

courses to the music curriculum. 


It Came upon the Midnight 

Clear 

Tenor Solo and SATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193864573 

Available from Banks Music Publishing 


Portraits in Jazz 

Piano solo 

Score 9780193385627 

This selection of twelve pieces draws on a variety of jazz 

styles associated with famous artists including Duke 

Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald. The pieces are 

simple yet delightful, and this volume presents a refreshing 

approach to exploring jazz while improving your piano 

technique. This volume is perfect for intermediate standard 

players (approximately Grades 4-5) of any age, and includes 

a CD with performances by the composer. 

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Rebecca Clarke 

- Rebecca Clarke - 

1886 - 1979 

The self-styled ‘viola player and composer’ Rebecca 

Clarke (b. Harrow, England, 1886; d. New York City, 

1979) played violin until her composition teacher, Sir 

Charles Stanford, urged her to shift over to the viola 

because then she would be ‘right in the middle of the 

sound, and can tell how it’s all done.’ 

The viola became the basis of Clarke’s world-wide 

career as a soloist and as a partner in chamber music 

with many of the greatest artists of the early twentieth 

century, including Schnabel, Casals, Thibaud, 

Rubinstein, Grainger, Hess, Monteux, and Szell. 

Her mature songs – perhaps her finest body of work, 

running the gamut from Blakean simplicity to brutal 

tragedy to outright farce — are also widely performed 

and recorded. Her choral and vocal-ensemble music 

was virtually unknown until publication of her Ave 

Maria and Chorus from Shelley’s ‘Hellas’ , but has since 

been performed and recorded. Several of her shorter 

instrumental chamber pieces, especially Morpheus, 

Two Pieces for Viola (or Violin) and Cello, and Prelude, 

Allegro, and Pastorale, have been performed, 

recorded, and broadcast worldwide. 

Clarke’s compositional output was extensive (about 

100 works, including juvenilia). Her Viola Sonata and 

Piano Trio are often played and recorded, and are now 

generally regarded as masterpieces. 

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Chorus from Shelley's 'Hellas' 

SSSAA unaccompanied 

Vocal Score 9780193861909 

Digital 9780193560109 

Although quite short, this is one of Clarke's boldest and, 

in some respects, most ambitious compositions. It sets 

Shelley's magnificent ode to the Evening Star. 

5.5 minutes 

Come, oh come, my life's delight 


Vocal Score 9780193866607 

Digital 9780193560147 

This is a lilting take on the Elizabethan lute-song full of 

smooth Stanford-like nineteenth-century harmonies, 

exquisitely tempered with modal effects. 

2 minutes 

A Lover's Dirge 


Vocal Score 9780193866652 

Digital 9780193560086 

Taken at a slow processional tempo this work has a 

predominantly canonic texture. The syncopated passages 

are at once sombre and sensual, and the balancing 

homophonic phrases achieve real power. A short, fairly 

easy piece that establishes a compelling mood, it is 

suitable for school and adult choirs. 

2.5 minutes 

Music, when soft voices die 


Vocal Score 9780193866669 

Digital 9780193560185 

Music, when soft voices die combines aspects of nineteenthcentury 

English pastoral style with some of the tonal 

adventurousness of Vaughan Williams's Shakespeare 

settings. This is an exceptionally beautiful setting of this 

familiar text. 

3.5 minutes 

My spirit like a charmed bark doth 

float 


Vocal Score 9780193866676 

Digital 9780193560130 

This is one of Clarke's many pieces on love, and one of the 

best. It combines the English modality of earlier times with 

foretastes of the adventurous chromaticism of her later 

work. It is a lovely piece, enjoyable to sing, and creates a 

compelling mood. 

2.5 minutes 

Now fie on love 

TTBarB unaccompanied 

Vocal Score 9780193866621 

Digital 9780193560093 

Now fie on love is a rollicking glee with all the usual 

imitative points and a somewhat unusual allotment of 

brawny sarcasm. It makes an effective encore. 

1.5 minutes 

Philomela 


Vocal Score 9780193866638 

Digital 9780193560161 

This is an appropriately aching setting of Sir Philip Sidney's 

poem of unending desire and longing. There are gorgeous 

chromatics and enharmonics and a masterful use of a 

triplet pattern which becomes the restless hunger driving 

the poem. 

5.5 minutes 

Weep you no more, sad fountains 


Vocal Score 9780193866683 

Digital 9780193560178 

Weep you no more, sad fountains is a modern take on 

the Elizabethan lute-song, integrating the characteristic 

alternations of minor and major, fondness for crossrelations, 

and vivid word-painting. The synthesis is 

remarkably compelling. 

2.5 minutes 

When cats run home and light is 

come 


Vocal Score 9780193866690 

Digital 9780193560123 

This work sets text by Tennyson and seems suitable to 

the type of picturesque Victorian part-song that Clarke 

emulated. 

2 minutes

Ave Maria 

SSA unaccompanied 

Vocal Score 9780193860803 

Digital 9780193560116 

This exquisite setting for SSA unaccompanied voices of a 

well-known Marian motet (in Latin) was the first of Rebecca 

Clarke's choral works ever to be published. 

2 minutes 

He That Dwelleth in the Secret 

Place of the Most High 

SSAATTBB unaccompanied, SAATB soloists 

Vocal Score 9780193866614 

Digital 9780193560079 

He That Dwelleth evokes Holst and Vaughan Williams in 

their more visionary modes. This is especially true of the 

opening and closing passages with their gently bi tonal 

effect that surrounds the highly varied and often quite 

passionate inner verses. The harmonies are bracing and the 

work is technically demanding. 

7 minutes 




There is no rose 

Solo baritone & ATBarB unaccompanied 

Vocal Score 9780193866645 

Digital 9780193560154 

The setting is full of gentle hemiola and canonic effects, 

and makes much use of parallel sixths and thirds. 

3 minutes 

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Songs with piano 

Voice and piano 

Solo Voice 

Vocal score 9780193864207 

This collection includes all Clarke's songs with piano 

published by OUP during the 1920s and 30s, plus eight 

songs never before published. The songs are extremely 

varied, and the piano partners the voice to a rare degree. 

Contents: 

The Aspidistra 

Binnorie: a ballad 

The cherry-blossom wand 

Come, oh come, my life's delight 

Cradle Song 

The Donkey 

God made a tree 

Lethe 

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah 

Tiger, tiger 

Weep you no more, sad fountains 

Songs with violin 

Voice and violin 

Vocal score 9780193863705 

By turns charming, tender, and ironic, these songs make an 

excellent concert suite and wonderful encores. 

Contents: 

I know my love 

I know where I'm goin' 

As I was going' to Ballynure 

Down by the Salley Gardens 

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Morpheus 

Viola and piano 


Score 9780193864368 

This piece is one of the finest compositions for viola by 

one of the instrument's greatest players. It is luxuriant 

in melodic inventions and startlingly beautiful in its 

instrumental colours. The piano is a full partner to the 

viola, contributing an equal share of melodic interest and 

colouristic effects. 

6 minutes 

Shorter pieces for Cello and Piano 

Cello and piano 

Score 9780193866553 

This collection contains all the extant shorter pieces 

by Rebecca Clarke for cello and piano, both original 

compositions and arrangements. Clarke's transcriptions 

make up around half of her works for cello. They are always 

carefully crafted, and are therefore often significantly 

different from the originals. 

Contents: 

Epilogue 

Passacaglia on an old English tune 

I'll bid my heart be still 

Shorter Pieces for Violin and Piano 

Violin and piano 

Score 9780193868625 

All Clarke's shorter pieces for violin and piano, comprising 

new editions of 'Chinese Puzzle' and 'Midsummer Moon' 

and the first publication of 'Lullaby', all edited from 

materials from Clarke's personal library. 

Contents: 

Lullaby 

Chinese Puzzle 

Midsummer Moon 

Shorter Pieces for Viola and Piano 


Score 9780193865990 

A collection of six pieces for the viola - the instrument 

which made Rebecca Clarke a well-known name. The 

pieces aren't too difficult (most being suitable for around 

Grades 6-7) and several would make fine recital pieces. 

Contents: 

Lullaby 

Lullaby 

Untitled 

Chinese Puzzle 

Passacaglia on an Old English Tune 

I'll bid my heart be still 


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Small Ensemble 

Prelude, Allegro, and Pastorale 

B flat clarinet and viola 

Score 9780193862388 

Composed in 1941, this is the first publication of this work. 

14 minutes 

Dumka 

Violin, viola, piano 

Score 9780193867482 

This work was written around 1940, placing it near the 

beginning of a series of Clarke's late compositions. It 

both looks forward to her lean, linear, avowedly modern 

conceptions and backwards to works which are explicit 

homages to ancient styles, forms, and composers. A strain 

from the gypsy-rondo of Brahms's Piano Quartet Op. 25 

echoes throughout the opening pages and is heard again 

in the piece's remarkable conclusion. 

11 minutes 

Two movements for string quartet 

String quartet 

Score and parts 9780193867499 

Rebecca Clarke worked in the string quartet medium over 

virtually the whole of her long life, either as a performer, 

a composer, or a teacher. The two movements published 

here are Clarke's only known 'pure' music (music that 

'means only itself', as she put it) for string quartet. 

Two Pieces for viola (or violin) and 

cello 

Viola (or violin) and cello 


Clarke's duo is in two contrasted movements, 'Lullaby' and 

'Grotesque', and was originally written as a concert piece 

for the composer to play with the English cellist May Mukle. 

5 minutes 

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- Valerie Showers Crescenz - 

Just as he said 

SATB 

Crossing the Bar w 

SATB 

Vocal score 9780193868670 

Available from Banks Music Publications 

Loveliest of trees 

SATB and piano 

Vocal score 9780193869936 

A. E. Housman’s secular text ‘Loveliest of trees’ is a reflection 

of the beauty of nature from the perspective of a young 

person. The charming setting in 3/4 features gentle and 

sturdy arpeggios in the left hand of the piano balanced 

with accessible choral lines, which rock back and forth 

through modal and nostalgic harmonies. 

1.5 minutes 

Where Go the Boats? 

SA and piano 

Vocal score 9780193869943 

This wonderful poem by Robert Louis Stevenson explores 

the tender and inquisitive nature of the youthful mind. 

As a child casts his own miniature boat along the river, he 

wonders where it will end up, and where other children’s 

boats go. The melody rings of a children’s lullaby and the 

watery accompaniment flows along, just like the river 

depicted in the poem, which “flows along forever with 

trees on either hand.” 

2.5 minutes 


Vocal score 9780193858640 




Christmas in Saint Petersburg 

SSAATTBB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193868724 

2.5 minutes 

Night of Dreams 

SATB 

Vocal score 9780193856653 


Valerie Showers Crescenz 

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Sarah Dacey 

- Sarah Dacey - 

b. 1979 

Sarah Dacey is a British singer, composer and 

teacher based in London. A graduate of the 

University of York and the Royal Academy of Music, 

she is studying for a PhD in Composition at the 

University of Westminster, supervised by Shirley 

Thompson. Her music has been broadcast on Radio 

3 and performed in the Wigmore Hall, the Tate 

Modern, the Three Choirs Festival, the National 

Theatre and the Tête à Tête Opera Festival. Recent 

commissions include a chamber opera (‘Liquid 

History’) for Gestalt Arts and an arrangement of 

the folk ballad, ‘Cruel Mother’ for the Viol Consort, 

Fretwork. 

Love Letter 


Vocal score 9780193543881 

Digital 9780193543898 

Settings words from part of a letter by Edna St Vincent 

Millay to her lover Arthur Davison Ficke, this is a gentle, 

charming piece that celebrates our freedom to love. Also 

published in Breath of Song. 

3 minutes 


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- Eleanor Daley - 

b. 1955 

Born and raised in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, 

Eleanor Daley received her Bachelor of Music Degree 

in Organ Performance from Queen’s University in 

Kingston, Ontario, and holds diplomas in piano 

and organ from the Royal Conservatory of Music, 

Toronto and Trinity College, England. She has been 

the Director of Music at Fairlawn Avenue United 

Church in Toronto, Ontario since 1982. 

A prolific composer, Eleanor has a remarkable gift 

for melody. Her works are most notable for their 

sensitive interweaving of text and music. 


Christ hath a garden 


Vocal score 9780193505209 

Set to an allegorical and evocative text by Robert 

Bridges, this gentle anthem is characterised by a simple, 

fluid melody which imparts a quiet sense of wonder. 

An instantly accessible and memorable setting, it is 

appropriate for many occasions. 

3 minutes 

Christ the Lord is ris’n today 

SATB and organ or brass quartet and timpani 

Vocal score 9780193804753 

Hire score & parts 9780193371194 

This Wesley text is set in a majestic and declamatory, just 

as one would expect from an Easter fanfare, with a hint 

of modal harmony, resulting in a strong and accessible 

Eastertide anthem. 

2.5 minutes 

Direct us, Lord through 

darkness 

SATB with divisions and organ 

Vocal score 9780193869639 

With text by American hymn-writer Thomas Troeger, this 

canticle includes an a cappella verse for textural contrast 

and a soprano descant brings the work to a powerful finish. 

2.5 minutes 

Eleanor Daley 

Angels visit when we sing 

SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193869646 

This beautiful canticle sets a text by the distinguished 

American hymn-writer Thomas Troeger. Suitable for Easter 

and throughout the year. 

3 minutes 

Ave maris stella 


Vocal score 9780193869585 

Suitable for the seasons of Advent and Christmas or for 

any Marian feast, this anthem takes as its starting point 

a reflective and compelling tune from Piae Cantiones, a 

sacred collection from 1582. Daley successfully creates 

a fresh new sound, however, by using contemporary 

harmonies. 

3.5 minutes 

The hidden stream that feeds 


Vocal score 9780193869554 

This canticle sets a text by the distinguished American 

hymn-writer Thomas Troeger. It is an accessible work 

whose opening bars suggest the gentle undulation of a 

stream. The exquisite tune receives varied treatment in 

each verse. 

3 minutes 

Hymn to God 


Vocal score 9780193869547 

This lush setting of a text by John Donne is particularly 

appropriate during Lent but is also suitable for general use. 

4 minutes 

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Eleanor Daley 

Let all the world in ev’ry corner 

sing 

SATB and piano or organ 

Vocal score 9780193804739 

Eleanor Daley sets well-loved texts by George Herbert 

in this suite of three pieces. They may be performed 

separately as part of a church service, or together for an 

impressive concert piece. This suite is particularly suitable 

for Easter and Trinity Sunday. 

1.5 minutes 

Love Never Ends 

SATB unaccompanied and Solo or semi-chorus 

Vocal score 9780193805071 

The text from Corinthians, ‘Love is patient, Love is kind’ 

set as a descant above a repeated, polyphonic, and 

homophonic SATB chant of the Latin text Ubi caritas et 

amor Deus ibi est. 

3 minutes 

Make our church one joyful choir 


Vocal score 9780193869653 

This canticle sets a text by the distinguished American 

hymn-writer Thomas Troeger. It enlivens Troeger’s already 

joyful text with an exciting 7/8 rhythm and a thrilling 

soprano descant. 

2 minutes 

My soul is exceeding sorrowful 


Vocal score 9780193505216 

This highly effective setting of the Tenebrae Responsories 

powerfully captures the sense of anguish and tension 

inherent in the text. Emotive chromatic harmonies and 

brief passages of strong unison writing combine to create a 

poignantly expressive Lenten anthem. 

3 minutes 

O come, let us sing unto the Lord 

SATB & organ 

Vocal score 9780193869578 

This is an exuberant setting of Psalm 95. A memorable 

rhythmic pattern is established by the organ toccata 

as it alternates between 4/4 and 7/8 for the outer 

sections of the anthem. The inner section offers a more 

straightforward setting of the text ending in D major, softer 

and a cappella. 

3.5 minutes 

Upon Your Heart 

SATB unaccompanied and soli or semi-chorus 

Vocal score 9780193426511 

Digital 9780193537392 

This is a straightforward and effective anthem set to a 

well-known text from the Song of Solomon, reinforcing the 

message of love’s power to bind people together. 

3 minutes 

Veni Creator Spiritus 


Vocal score 9780193869561 

This gentle, calm anthem fills a need in the repertoire for 

Pentecost. It begins with a statement of the traditional 

chant tune accompanied by a homophonic ostinato in the 

upper voices. The original hymn then sounds in the inner 

voices, and the work concludes with a restatement of the 

opening motifs. 

2 minutes 

The Lake Isle of Innisfree 

SSA or SABar or TTB & piano 


SABar vocal score 9780193561793 


TTB vocal score 9780193560840 

Suitable for concert use, this simple, delightful setting of a 

Yeats poem embraces nature’s beauty and the secret joy of 

solitude. Soaring melodies, rich harmonic language, and 

a piano part that is both driving and supportive create a 

piece that is evocative and poignant. 

3 minutes 

O ye who taste that Love is sweet 


Vocal score 9780193541030 

Digital 9780193543614 

This is a warm and tender piece setting the last three 

verses of Christina Rossetti’s ‘What good shall my life do 

me?’, which encourages leading a life of love as an example 

for others. 

3 minutes 


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Listen 

SA & piano 

Vocal score 9780193563759 

Digital 9780193564114 

In this beautiful setting of words by the composer, based 

on a quote by Brian Palmer, singers are encouraged to 

listen to the sounds and people around them in order to 

learn and grow: ‘one act of love, I know, for sure, is to listen.’ 

3.5 minutes 

- Reena Esmail - 

b. 1983 

Indian-American composer Reena Esmail works 

between the worlds of Indian and Western classical 

music, and brings communities together through 

the creation of equitable musical spaces. 

Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2020- 

2023 Swan Family Artist in Residence, and Seattle 

Symphony’s 2020-21 Composer-in-Residence. 

Previously, she was named a 2019 United States 

Artist Fellow in Music, and the 2019 Grand Prize 

Winner of the S & R Foundation’s Washington Award. 


TaReKiTa 

SATB or SSAA or TTBB unaccompanied 

SATB vocal score 9780193540750 

SATB Digital 9780193540774 

SSAA vocal score 9780193552173 

SSAA Digital 9780193552180 

TTBB vocal score 9780193560833 

TTBB Digital 9780193560956 

TaReKiTa is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly 

blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The 

composer’s scats are combined with a fast triple metre, 

vocal slides, and captivating melodies built on the Jog 

raga. Also published in Breath of Song. 

2 minutes 


A Winter Breviary 


Vocal score 9780193561908 

The three movements of A Winter Breviary are entitled: ‘We 

look for you’, ‘The year’s midnight’, and ‘The unexpected 

early hour’. The movements are each based on an Indian 

classical Raag and reflect upon the Christmas story from 

the perspective of evening, midnight, and daybreak. 

8.5 minutes 

Reena Esmail 

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Jeanette Gallant 

- Jeanette Gallant - 

Dr. Jeanette Gallant is a Canadian musician with 

over 25 years of diverse experience as a voice 

teacher, music lecturer, composer, conductor, 

performer, and administrator in Canada, S.E. Asia, 

and the United Kingdom. Jeanette has a doctorate 

from the University of Oxford, and she has held 

positions at the University of Reading (UK), Hong 

Kong Academy for the Performing Arts (HKAPA), Red 

Deer College (AB, Canada), Havergal College (ON, 

Canada), the University of Windsor (ON, Canada), 

and various Oxford Colleges (UK). An accomplished 

ethnomusicologist, her speciality is folksong and 

her most recent publication can be found in the Yale 

Journal of Music and Religion. Jeanette has created 

various research-based cross-cultural community 

engagement choral projects which have garnered 

her invitations to talk at various universities 

and cultural institutions. As a vocal pedagogue, 

she focuses on vocal technique for choirs, vocal 

physiology, teacher-training, and the rehabilitation 

of damaged voices using vocal massage and other 

embodied vocal techniques. 

Marie Madeleine 


SATB or SSAA body percussion, & spoons 





Gallant’s take on this Acadian folksong is lively and 

engaging, featuring the quintessential elements of the 

tradition: podorythmie (seated foot-tapping), diddlage 

(mouth music), and the spoons. With playful vocal slides 

and energetic rhythmic motifs, this arrangement offers a 

modern twist on this well-loved melody from the French- 

Canadian oral tradition. 

3.5 minutes 

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Håll mig kvar/Hold me fast 

arr. Nilson 

SAATBB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193394278 

Digital 9780193536159 

The signature tune for the award-winning Swedish 

a cappella group Vocado, this poignant love song is 

characterized by mixed messages: the lover wants to leave, 

but can’t quite bring himself to walk out the door. 

4.5 minutes 

- Malin Gavelin - - Nina Gilbert - 


Pandangguhan (Dancing the 

Pandanggo) 

TTBB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193867369 

Tagalog is the major language of the Philippines, related to 

the Indonesian language. 

3.5 minutes 

Irish Carol 

SATB 



Vocal score 9780193858732 


3 minutes 

Gavelin - Gilbert 

I got a robe 


Spirituals 

Vocal score 9780193860940 


2 minutes 

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Elaine Hagenberg 

- Elaine Hagenberg - 

Elaine Hagenberg’s music “soars with eloquence 

and ingenuity” (ACDA Choral Journal). Her awardwinning 

compositions are performed worldwide 

and frequently featured at American Choral 

Directors Association conferences, All-State festivals, 

Carnegie Hall, and other distinguished international 

concert halls from Australia to South America and 

throughout Europe. 

In addition to composing full-time, Elaine actively 

engages in bringing her music to life as the guest 

artist and featured clinician for professional 

conferences and festivals both in the U.S. and 

abroad as a composer, conductor, and accompanist 

of her work. 

The Music of Stillness 

SATB (with divisions) and piano 

Vocal score 9780193517929 

Digital 9780193537422 

The Music of Stillness is a beautiful and emotive setting of 

Sara Teasdale’s poem ‘There Will Be Rest’. Sonorously scored 

choral phrases conjure up images of ‘stars shining, rooftops 

covered with snow, crystal peace...finding the music of 

stillness’. 

3.5 minutes 

My Companion 


Vocal score 9780193527515 

Digital 9780193531512 

This is a tender setting of a text by American poet Edith 

Franklin Wyatt that speaks of companionship and the joys 

of sharing it as we travel along the road of life. Hagenberg 

employs her characteristically rich harmonic language to 

create a piece with great depth and immediacy. 

5 minutes 


A Farewell 


Vocal score 9780193522664 

Digital 9780193537897 

Based on Frances Anne Kemble’s poem ‘An Entreaty’, this 

enchanting piece describes the experience of leaving a 

beloved time and place. Lush, expressive harmonies and 

lyrical melodies create a touching musical manifestation of 

Kemble’s poignant words. 

4 minutes 

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- Laura Hawley - 

b. 1982 

Laura Hawley has been steeped in choral art 

since childhood, and her stylistic versatility is 

demonstrated through her output for a variety 

of artists, from the developing chorister to the 

professional choral ensemble. Her works have 

been commissioned, performed, and recorded 

by esteemed choirs including Canadian Chamber 

Choir, Pro Coro Canada, and Toronto Children’s 

Chorus. Often influenced by creative community 

connections and exchanges, Hawley’s music has 

been described as conjuring ‘the forces of nature 

and its effect on the human spirit’. Her piece 

Alhamdoulilah became internationally famous 

overnight when a video recording entitled ‘Welcome 

to Canada Syrian Refugees’ went viral on YouTube 

in December 2014. Hawley is also a highly regarded 

conductor and educator, and directs various treble 

and mixed choirs as well as teaching theory and 

composition at university level. 

Laura Hawley 

The Arrow and the Song 

Alto solo & SSATB or SSSAAA unaccompanied 

SATB Vocal score 9780193546769 


SSSAAA vocal score 9780193550889 

SSSAAA Digital 9780193550896 

This imaginative setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 

poem encourages the use of evocative bird and wind 

noises to capture the text’s natural imagery. In a fresh, a 

cappella style, Hawley’s charismatic melodies soar through 

the vibrant texture, and offer plenty of opportunities for 

soloists. Also published in Breath of Song. 

4 minutes 


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Imogen Holst 

In heaven it is always Autumn 


- Imogen Holst - 

1907 - 1984 

Imogen Holst was a British composer and conductor, 

and the only child of composer Gustav Holst. She 

entered the Royal College of Music in 1926 to study 

composition with George Dyson and Gordon Jacob, 

harmony and counterpoint with Ralph Vaughan 

Williams, and conducting with William H. Reed. She 

won several prizes for composition including the 

Cobbett prize for a string quartet (1928). She was 

appointed a fellow of the Royal College of Music in 

1966, an honorary member of the Royal Academy of 

Music in 1970 and to the CBE in 1975. 


Vocal score 9780193413528 


Choral Leaflets Secular 

All under the leaves 

(The Seven Virgins) 


Vocal score 9780193403727 


Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads 


Vocal score 9780193511767 


Greensleeves 


Vocal score 9780193403925 


I must live all alone 


Vocal score 9780193394858 


Choral Works Secular 

The Sun’s Journey 

Cantata for women’s voices and chamber orchestra 

or piano 

Hire conductor’s, vocal scores & parts 9780193369238 

25 minutes 

Welcome Joy and Welcome 

Sorrow 

SSA and harp or piano 

Hire vocal, conductor’s scores and parts 9780193369054 

Six songs for SSA chorus, and harp or piano to words by 

John Keats. 

12 minutes 

The Twelve Kindly Months 


Vocal score 9780193511743 


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Cherry, holly, and ivy 


Vocal score 9780193511750 

Vocal score available from Banks Music Publications 

Six Traditional Carols (First Set) 


Vocal score 9780193532038 

These short, simple settings are suitable for choirs 

beginning to sing in parts. Each part is easy enough to be 

learnt by rote if necessary, and each setting is short enough 

for choirs to learn by heart. 


Six Traditional Carols (Second Set) 


Vocal score 9780195366419 





Contents: 


O little town 

In dulci jubilo 

God rest you merry 

This Endris night 

Lord Jesus hath a garden 

Joseph dearest 

Six Traditional Carols (Third Set) 

SSA or SSAA unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193532052 






Six Traditional Carols (Fourth Set) 

SSA or SSSA unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193532069 







Fall of the leaf 

Solo cello 

Score 9780193572522 

Available from archive 

In heaven it is always Autumn 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193413528 


Six Pictures from Finland 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193539679 


Six Canons For Violin Classes 

Solo violin 

Score 9780193572508 


Imogen Holst 

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Laura Jekabsone 

As Joseph was a-walking 

SATB (with div) & 2 soloists unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193562530 

Digital 9780193562547 

In this beautiful setting, Latvian composer Laura Jekabsone 

presents a modern, popular take on Henry John Gauntlett’s 

familiar carol text. The piece is led by two soloists (one 

upper voice, one lower voice), who the choir underpin with 

a rich harmonic cushion of a cappella-style scats. 

3.5 minutes 

- Laura Jekabsone - 


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Psalm 57 


SATB (with divisions) 

Vocal score 9780193565326 

A powerfully emotive setting that contrasts moments 

of reflection with declamatory exultation, Psalm 57 uses 

passages from the eponymous psalm in the King James 

translation. Written in 1972, it is dedicated to the Brazeal 

Dennard Chorale, an ensemble known for championing 

the music of Black composers. 

6.5 minutes 

- Betty Jackson King - 

Betty Jackson King 

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Nikki Iles 

- Nikki Iles - 

b. 1963 

Multi award-winning jazz pianist and composer, 

Nikki Iles, was a founder member of the innovative 

Creative Jazz Orchestra. She has a busy freelance 

career, with over 25 CDs recorded over 3 decades, 

and has been described as the Heroine of British 

Jazz. Composition remains a major part of her 

musical life with commissions from The London 

Sinfonietta, the International Society of Jazz 

Composers and Arrangers, and The National Youth 

Jazz Orchestra. With a parallel career as a much 

loved and respected teacher, Nikki is also Professor 

of Jazz Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and The 

Guildhall Music and Drama. 


Jazz in Springtime 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193391550 

This piano album takes players on a musical tour of 

springtime, presenting well-loved jazz standards such 

as ‘April in Paris’ and ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ alongside cool 

original compositions by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles. 

The nine pieces present a variety of jazz styles, including 

swing, folk, samba, and contemporary, drawing inspiration 

from the likes of Keith Jarrett, Oscar Peterson, Count Basie, 

and Chick Corea. 

CD included 

Jazz on a Summer’s Day 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193379794 

Jazz on a Summer’s Day is a unique collection of stylish jazz 

arrangements and original compositions for solo piano. It 

conveys the many sides of summer through swing, blues, 

samba, calypso, and folk, and draws inspiration from 

jazz artists including Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Grover 

Washington Jr, and Sonny Rollins. 

CD included 

Grooves for Two 

Piano duets (4 hands) 

Score 9780193400511 

Grooves for Two is a collection of seven groovy pieces for 

piano four-hands, written by leading pianist-composers 

working in jazz and other popular styles. Designed for 

teacher-pupil duos, the pieces provide foot-tapping fun 

while exploring rhythmic styles often reserved for bands, 

encouraging good ensemble playing and a strong sense of 

CD included 

Jazz in Autumn 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193394650 

This stylish piano album takes players on a musical tour of 

autumn, presenting well-loved songs such as ‘September in 

the Rain’, ‘Witchcraft’, and ‘(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow’ 

and original compositions on other seasonal themes. The 

nine pieces reflect a wide variety of jazz styles, including 

swing, waltz, calypso, and shuffle, and draw on artists such 

as Billie Holiday, Keith Jarrett, Stan Getz, and Frank Sinatra. 

CD included 

Jazz on a Winter’s Night 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193365902 

Jazz on a Winter’s Night is a Christmas piano album of 

stylish, swinging arrangements. Favourite Christmas carols 

and songs receive the complete jazz treatment, with 

rhythm, harmony, grooves, and solos all carefully notated. 

The expertise of the arranger, a celebrated jazz pianist 

and composer, guarantees an authentic jazz sound, and a 

range of styles from Nat King Cole to John Coltrane. While 

paying homage to American Christmas jazz, the collection 

also reflects a European tradition, in such time-honoured 

classics as ‘In the bleak mid-winter’. 

CD included 

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Jazz on a Winter’s Night 2 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193517691 

Following the success of the first volume in Nikki Iles’s 

acclaimed jazz series, this collection features sophisticated 

new jazz arrangements of Christmas classics, including 

‘Let it snow!’, ‘Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer’, ‘Away in 

a manger’, and ‘Past three o’clock’. A wide variety of styles 

are represented, from swing and stride to boogaloo and 

calypso. 

CD included 

Nikki Iles 

Violin Jazz in Autumn 


Score 9780193407671 

This stylish album for violin and piano takes players on a 

musical tour of autumn, presenting well-loved songs such 

as ‘September in the Rain’, ‘Autumn Leaves’, ‘Danny Boy’, and 

‘(Somewhere) Over the Rainbow’ and original compositions 

on other seasonal themes. The nine pieces reflect a wide 

variety of jazz styles, including swing, blues, calypso, and 

bossa nova, and draw on artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, 

Stéphane Grappelli, Didier Lockwood, and Regina Carter. 

CD included 

Violin Jazz on a Winter’s Night 


Score 9780193393448 

Violin Jazz on a Winter’s Night is a Christmas album of 

stylish, swinging arrangements for violin and piano. 

Favourite Christmas carols and songs are given the 

complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, embellishment, 

grooves, and solos all carefully notated. The expertise of 

the arranger, a celebrated jazz musician and composer, 

guarantees an authentic jazz sound, and a range of styles 

from Nat King Cole to John Coltrane. While paying homage 

to American Christmas jazz, the collection also reflects a 

European tradition, in such time-honoured classics as ‘In 

the bleak mid-winter’. 

CD included 

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Libby Larsen 

Photo: Ann Marsden 

- Libby Larsen - 

b. 1950 

Libby Larsen is one of America’s most prolific and 

most performed living composers. She has created a 

catalogue of over 200 works spanning virtually every 

genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to 

massive orchestral and choral scores. Her music has 

been praised for its dynamic, deeply inspired, and 

vigorous contemporary American spirit. Constantly 

sought after for commissions and premières by major 

artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, 

Libby Larsen has established a permanent place for 

her works in the concert repertory. 

In April 2003, the Library of Congress announced 

Libby Larsen’s appointment as the first holder of 

the Harissios Papamarkou Chair in Education and 

Technology in the John W. Kluge Center. She has 

received numerous awards and accolades, including 

a 1994 Grammy, and has held residencies with the 

California Institute of the Arts, the Arnold Schoenberg 

Institute, the Charlotte Symphony, and the Colorado 

Symphony. Larsen’s many commissions and recordings 

are a testament to her fruitful collaborations with 

a long list of world-renowned artists, including The 

King’s Singers, Benita Valente, and Frederica von Stade, 

among others. Her works are widely recorded on 

such labels as Angel/EMI, Nonesuch, Decca, and Koch 

International. 

Libby Larsen is a vigorous, articulate champion of 

the music and musicians of our time. In 1973, she 

co-founded (with Stephen Paulus) the Minnesota 

Composers Forum, now the American Composers 

Forum, which has been an invaluable advocate for 

composers in a difficult, transitional time for American 

arts. Larsen’s commitment to the wider issue of music 

in society has led her to activity on a national level. 

She has also been Vice-President of the American 

Music Center and a director of the College Music 

Society. 

Recognized as a leader in the generation of 

millennium thinkers, Libby Larsen’s music and ideas 

have refreshed the concert music tradition and the 

composer’s role in it. 

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Choral Works Sacred 

The Nothing That Is 

Baritone solo, SATB choir, 3 speakers, and chamber 

ensemble 

Hire conductor’s, vocal score and parts 9780193370128 

A contemplation of faith in supreme being through faith 

in numbers, in particular the mystical number zero. With 

excerpts from Apollo 13 flight transcript, Psalms 90, 13, 

and 131, Ptolemy, John Donne, Charles Pierce, and John F. 

Kennedy, adapted by Larsen. 

36 minutes 

Choral Leaflets/ Octavos Sacred 

Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless 

round 

SATB, organ, and opt. congregation 

Vocal score 9780193404809 

Commissioned for the American Guild of Organists 2014 

National Convention in Boston, Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless 

round is a joyful and exuberant setting of the well-known 

hymn by John Chadwick. 

4.5 minutes 

Fanfare and Alleluia 

SATB, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, handbells, chimes, 

organ 

Vocal score 9780193860414 


2 minutes 

Flee we to our Lord 


Vocal score 9780193869349 

This is a lovely, hushed and meditative hymn that is simple 

and eloquent. The brevity and expressive beauty of this 

piece can be equally used in both sacred and secular 

settings. 

4 minutes 

God so loved the world 


Vocal score 9780193856646 

This is a moving arrangement of the familiar passage from 

the Book of John. Larsen takes an original melody and 

arranges beautiful harmonies underneath with delicate 

suspensions. 

3 minutes 

i am a little church 

SATB and organ 

Vocal score 9780193868885 

This ravishing setting of a heartfelt and emotional poem by 

e. e. cummings captures a sense of the ineffable place of 

faith in existence that transcends mere worship, doctrine, 

even humankind itself. The musical setting is mostly 

consonant, bittersweet, and well-attuned to the emotional 

content of the words. 

4 minutes 

Libby Larsen 

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Libby Larsen 

I will sing and raise a psalm 


Vocal score 9780193860438 

I will sing and raise a psalm has a text from St Francis of 

Assisi and works well as a concert piece or as an anthem. 

The music is rewarding for organist and choir alike. The 

conclusion, with its evocative radiance, is especially 

attractive. 

4 minutes 

Is God, our endless day 


Vocal score 9780193864092 

This is an affirmation of faith through music, which Larsen 

describes as ‘perhaps the strongest means we have to 

recall the moment of God’s touch’. 

3 minutes 

Lord, before this fleeting season 


Vocal score 9780193864085 

3 minutes 

Natus est Emmanuel 


Vocal score 9780193865730 

This works sets an anonymous text from Piae Cantiones 

(1562), with a poetic translation by Philip Freeman. 

3.5 minutes 

Psalm 121 

SSSAAA unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193863644 

A setting of the familiar psalm text with interpolations from 

nature writings by the American naturalist John Muir and 

by Patricia Hennings. 

9 minutes 

So Blessedly it Sprung 

SATB and piano or oboe, viola, and harp 

Vocal score 9780193861299 


This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the 

choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic 

bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental colour. Both the 

singer and the audience will be swept up in the ecstasy of 

the birth and the peacefulness of renewal. 

8 minutes 

30


The Ballerina and the Clown 

SAA and harp 

Vocal score 9780193866737 

Seven songs for children’s chorus (SAA) and harp to texts 

by Sally M. Gall. The Ballerina and the Clown develops a 

completely new story inspired by some of Hans Christian 

Andersen’s charming papercuts. 

17 minutes 

Eleanor Roosevelt 

Speaker, mezzo-soprano solo, SATB Chorus 

(playing percussion), and ensemble 


Hire vocal scores 9780193371231 

A dramatic cantata, based on the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, 

which is vibrant, varied, and in the end deeply moving. This 

is a striking programming choice for a dedicated chorus and 

an accomplished speaker. Text by Sally M. Gall. 

Vocal score available on sale from Banks Music Publications 

35 minutes 

I It Am: The Shewings of Julian of 

Norwich 

Soprano, countertenor, baritone soli, SSAATTBB 

chorus, and orchestra 



A cantata, in five movements, is an exposition of human 

experience revealed to us through the writings of Julian of 

Norwich and her European contemporaries. Focussing on 

a theme of unity (one is all = all is one), Larsen researched 

periods of history where cultures coexisted in a civilisation 

of respect and admiration leading her to the Andulusian 

and European culture of the period around 750- 1492, and 

the teaching that within each person is dark and light, and 

through experiences, as humans we ultimately love. 

17 minutes 

Love Songs 


Vocal score 9780193861336 

Five songs for SATB chorus and piano on texts by 

twentieth-century women poets. Each has a unique 

perspective on love, ranging from reflections on loss, to the 

delights of everyday familiarity, and the thrill of spring and 

new passions. 

Contents: 

Looking at each other (Muriel Rukeyser) 

Clinging (Jeanne Shepard) 

Dirty No Gooder Blues (Bessie Smith) 

Dear Love (Willa Cather) 

At April (Angelina Weld Grimke) 

18 minutes 

Seven Ghosts 

Soprano solo, SATB chorus, and brass ensemble 

Vocal score 9780193860087 


A brilliant choral celebration of seven American legends 

(Phillis Wheatley, George Washington, Jenny Lind, Harriet 

Beecher Stowe, Clyde William Thornbaugh, Charles 

Lindbergh, Louis Armstrong). Energetic and appealing, 

the music culminates in a wordless finale which celebrates 

Louis Armstrong and the jazz clubs of the 1930s by mixing 

up six familiar classics. 

25 minutes 

Song - Dances to the Light 

Narrator, children’s chorus, full orchestra, and Orff 

instruments 

Chorus part (including speaker) 9780193859951 


Hire Orff instrumental parts 9780193859968 


A setting of specially-written texts by children, the subject 

matter is the sun, the moon, and the stars. The songs are 

linked by spoken narration, resulting in a rich and vivid 

tapestry. 

19 minutes 

Libby Larsen 

Sweet and Sour Nursery Rhymes 

SATB and french horn 

Vocal score 9780193862760 

French horn part 9780193862777 

Using as its basis two traditional nursery rhymes and an 

achingly nostalgic poem by Eugene Field, Larsen deftly 

captures the essence of childhood in her clever setting 

of the three texts whilst offering her own, more adult, 

interpretations to the moral of each. 

9 minutes 

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Libby Larsen 

Choral Leaflets/ Octavos Secular 

At April 


Digital † 9780193546677 

From the collection Love Songs, ‘At April’ sets a text by 

American activist Angelina Weld Grimké. Scored for SATB 

and piano, and featuring a driving accompaniment, this 

piece is a wild dance of spring, youth, and freedom. 

2.5 minutes 

Clinging 

SATB & piano 

Digital † 9780193546684 

From the collection Love Songs, ‘Clinging’ explores a 

woman’s experiences of losing love, both past and present. 

Scored for SATB and piano, its use of discords creates a 

sense of poignancy while the overall slow tempo conveys 

an atmosphere which is regretful yet resolved. 

4 minutes 

Day Song 


Vocal score 9780193862418 

An exuberant song of rejoicing at the dawn, with a catchy, 

toe-tapping refrain of ‘Cry jubilee’. 

3 minutes 

Dear Love 


Digital † 9780193546707 

From the collection Love Songs, ‘Dear Love’ sets a 

text by American writer Willa Cather. Scored for SATB 

unaccompanied, this meditation on the universality of love 

features rich, lucid harmonies and creates a hauntingly 

wistful atmosphere. 

3.5 minutes 

Eine kleine Snailmusik 

Treble voices or SSA and double bass 

Vocal score 9780193864351 

Larsen’s fun setting of a sweetly humorous text by May 

Sarton will provide enjoyable and rewarding learning for 

school or amateur choirs. The contrabass part would also 

be suitable for the younger pupil. 

3 minutes 

I find my feet have further goals 


Vocal score 9780193861527 

The music, superficially simple with a gently rocking 

rhythm framing a declamation of the text, allows the words 

to speak for themselves whilst simultaneously enhancing 

their expressive power. 

3 minutes 

I just lightning 

SSAA and percussion 

Vocal score 9780193860445 

Percussion part* 9780193860452 

A riveting setting for women’s voices and percussion of 

a Mexican Indian chant evoking the Divine Spirit and 

praying for healing and spiritual strength. Full of Larsen’s 

characteristic atmospheric effects and vivid word-painting, 

the text and music celebrate the significance of women in 

the quest for spiritual enlightenment. 

*Percussion part available from Banks Music Publications 

7 minutes 

Dirty No Gooder Blues 


Digital † 9780193546745 

From the collection Love Songs, ‘Dirty No Gooder Blues’ 

is a raucous composition which pays homage to worldrenowned 

blues singer and lyricist Bessie Smith. Scored for 

SATB and piano, it features Smith’s lyrics alongside bluesinfluenced 

rhythms and harmonies. 

4 minutes 

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If I Could Stop One Heart 

From Breaking 

SSA chorus and chamber orchestra 

Conductor’s score and parts on hire 9780193865907 

Originally the last movement of Today, this spring, the 

work reflects the infinite joyous spirit of two women who 

succumbed to breast cancer and their courageous example 

of peacefulness in the face of adversity. Also published in 

Flexible Choral Songs. 

3 minutes 

Invitation to Music 

SATB and piano/string quartet/orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193860704 


A haunting depiction of the “magic made by melody . . . 

Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep”, from a poem by 

Elizabeth Bishop. 

5 minutes 

Jack’s Valentine 


Vocal score 9780193865952 

This piece is the brash inside echo of what so many of us 

stumble to put into words in the outside world. Aldeen 

Humphreys’ poem is a tribute to Jack Kerouac and is a little 

packet of courage for shy lovers. 

1.5 minutes 

Looking at each other 

SATB & piano 

Digital † 9780193546691 

From the collection Love Songs, ‘Looking at each other’ sets 

a text by renowned poet Muriel Rukeyser. Scored for SATB 

and piano, this piece uses paired voices and parallel thirds 

to explore the image of two people long acquainted and 

attracted to each other. Recurring motifs and clipped piano 

phrases enhance the atmosphere of tension. 

3 minutes 

May Sky 


Vocal score 9780193866225 

Commissioned for the 2002 World Choral Symposium, ‘May 

Sky’ is based on haiku written by Japanese and Japanese- 

American detainees in camps in the American West. 

6 minutes 

Reasons for Loving the 

Harmonica 


Vocal score 9780193866218 

This short, light-hearted setting of a Julie Kane text is 

suitable for school or youth choirs, its homophonic texture 

and fun words making it easy to learn. 

4 minutes 

A Salute to Louis Armstrong 


Vocal score 9780193862289 

Digital 9780193541016 

This salute to the spirit of Louis Armstrong breathtakingly 

incorporates ‘Basin Street Blues’, ‘Lady be good’, ‘Tiger Rag’, 

‘When the saints go marching in’, and more surprisingly 

excerpts from ‘Clair de Lune’ and from Brahms’ A flat major 

Piano Serenade. It is in one movement, which may be 

performed on its own, taken from the choral suite Seven 

Ghosts. 

3 minutes 

Libby Larsen 

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Libby Larsen 

Today, this spring 

SSAA and piano 

Vocal score 9780193860407 

This set of three pieces for treble voices and piano was 

commissioned by David L. Cooper and Thomas Scott in 

remembrance of David’s wife and Tom’s sister, both of 

whom succumbed to breast cancer. 

8 minutes 

Western Songs 1: Buffalo Gals 


Vocal score 9780193869387 

The arrangements by turn spin contrapuntal and 

antiphonal textures then relax into meltingly beautiful 

chords, while glissandi and yipping vocal slides evoke the 

sounds of the barn dance and the cattle drive. 

3 minutes 

A Young Nun, Singing 


Vocal score 9780193868557 

A Young Nun, Singing, is a collection of four poems 

arranged to tell the story of a young woman, chafing at her 

parents’ plans for her, faced with the prospects of marriage 

or a life of seclusion. 

7 minutes 

Western Songs 2: Green grow the 

lilacs 


Vocal score 9780193869400 

3.5 minutes 

Western Songs 3: The Ol’ Chisholm 

Trail 


Vocal score 9780193869424 

9 minutes 

The Witches Trio 


Vocal score 9780193863958 

Larsen’s take on the famous witches’ incantation, ‘Double, 

double, toil and trouble,’ from Shakespeare’s Macbeth is 

filled with lurid word-painting and rhythmic tricks. 

4.5 minutes 

The Womanly Song of God 

SSSSAAAA unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193867550 

The choir acts both as a singing group and as a drumming 

group, spinning sung rhythmic patterns into a buoyant 

accompaniment to the sung text. As the piece progresses, 

foot-stomping and hand-clapping is added to make a 

vibrant song-dance. 

7 minutes 

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Choral Works Christmas 

Canticle of Mary 

SSA and piano duet or chamber orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193859852 


An unusually joyous setting in which straightforward vocal 

lines portray Mary’s humility, and the accompaniment 

expresses exuberance and freedom of spirit. This is a 

strikingly original setting of the Canticle for concert rather 

than liturgical use. 

9 minutes 

Choral Octavos Christmas 

A Simple Gloria 


Vocal score 9780193396296 

Digital 9780193531192 

Originally published in the anthology, An American 

Christmas, this is a serene setting of a macaronic text by 

M. K. Dean describing the song the angels sang for the 

birth of the Christ-child. 

4 minutes 

Libby Larsen 

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Libby Larsen 

Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me 

Many Flowers 

Mezzo-soprano and piano 

Vocal score 9780193863453 

This group of six songs for mezzo-soprano, piano, and cello 

began with Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Liebeslied” and grew 

into a cycle of songs about mature love, music, nature, 

and flowers. The piece was commissioned by Hella Mears 

Hueg and presented to her husband Bill Hueg for his 70th 

birthday in 1994. 


21 minutes 

Love after 1950 

Mezzo-soprano and piano 

Vocal score 9780193863453 

This song cycle uses texts by women poets and focuses 

on women’s experience with great humour and irony. The 

cycle will appeal to singers with real interpretative flair and 

is accessible to advanced students. 

15 minutes 

Margaret Songs 

Soprano and piano 

Vocal score 9780193861718 

Margaret Songs are a collection of three songs of Margaret 

Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen’s opera Eric Hermannson’s 

Soul, based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one 

woman’s emotional journey through a love affair. 

10 minutes 

Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) 

Mezzo-soprano, trombone, and orchestra 

Hire scores and parts 9780193863316 

Seven songs for mezzo-soprano, trombone, and orchestra 

with a set of fifteen colour slides of Cassatt’s paintings. 

29 minutes 

Solo Voice 

My Ántonia 


Vocal score 9780193867215 

Larsen’s song cycle is based on the novel by the American 

writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden’s 

memories of Ántonia Shimerda during their shared 

experiences of the pioneering period of European 

settlement in the American Midwest. 

16 minutes 

Notes Slipped Under the Door 

Soprano, piano or flute, and chamber orchestra 


Hire vocal score 9780193866935 

A piece that explores the delicate balance of parent-child 

love, with text by Eugenia Zukerman. Five notes slipped 

under a mother’s closed door are represented by five 

movements. 

15 minutes 

Songs from Letters 

Soprano and piano or chamber orchestra 

Soprano and piano score 9780193859760 


The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane 

to her daughter Janey, from 1880-1902. The five songs 

present a stirring picture of an independent woman’s 

struggle to earn a living to support her child. 

13 minutes 

Sonnets from the Portuguese 

Soprano and piano or chamber ensemble 

Vocal score 9780193859814 


Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets 

from the Portuguese explores the finding of a mature love 

by a woman who wonders what part of her she must 

sacrifice to the lover and to the world. Larsen transforms 

the dialogue into a musical metaphor of resolved and 

unresolved harmonies. 

20 minutes 

Me (Brenda Ueland) 


Vocal score 9780193861558 

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda 

Ueland’s 1938 autobiography. Although Ueland’s life was 

nothing out of the ordinary, the philosophy of her writing 

is to find the joy in everyday events and provides the 

motto: “Remember to live”. 

37 minutes 

Try Me, Good King 


Vocal score 9780193864184 

Digital 9780193544468 

Try Me, Good King is a group of five songs drawn from 

the final letters and gallows speeches of the six wives 

of King Henry VIII. The cycle is a psychologically intense 

monodrama that presents technical challenges to both 

performers. 

15 minutes 

36

Barnum’s Bird 

SATB soli, SSAATTBB ensemble, mixed chorus, and 

chamber ensemble 



Vocal score* 9780193866058 

Barnum’s Bird is a chamber opera in two acts with libretto 

by Bridget Carpenter and Libby Larsen. The opera explores 

the idea that art is on the one hand in service of humanity 

and in the other in service of commerce. The story 

focuses on Jenny Lind’s tour of America in 1850-51, which 

P.T. Barnum persuaded her to do and in turn created a 

merchandising phenomenon. 


90 minutes 


Libby Larsen 

Dreaming Blue 

SSATB soloists, SATB, SSA children, rhythm chorus, 

drumming group, and chamber orchestra 



Vocal score* 9780193866072 

This is an opera in one act. The libretto is by Libby 

Larsen with text contributed by students of Mountain 

View Elementary School, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; ‘Red 

Soliloquy’ by John Ziegenhagen; and poetry by James A. 

Emanuel, Mary O’Neill, Hiawyn Oram. Dreaming Blue is the 

story of how a person (child) who feels lost and floating 

responds creatively to life in all its agony and splendour. 


60 minutes 

Eric’s Hermannson’s Soul 

8 soloists, SATB quartet, chorus, dancer, and 

chamber orchestra 


Hire chorus scores 9780193863927 

Hire SATB quartet vocal scores 9780193863934 


This is an opera in two acts with a libretto by Chas 

Rader-Schieber after Willa Cather. It tells the story of a 

young Norwegian farmer who, after converting to Free 

Gospellism, destroys his violin and vows to never again 

dance. After falling in love, his new values are challenged. 

The struggle to find a sense of self and importance of 

selfless love are central themes. 

105 minutes 

37

Libby Larsen 

The Atmosphere of a Fluid 

System 

Flute and chamber orchestra or full orchestra 

Full Orchestra: flute solo, fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, timp, 3 perc 

(vib, wood block, sleighbells, orchestra bells, mba, 

bongos, low tom, large tam, tbells, sus cym (sticks, 

wire brushes), temple blocks, SD) pn, str 

Chamber Orchestra: flute solo, 3 perc, str 

Hire score and parts - full orchestra 9780193860193 

Hire score and parts - chamber orch 9780193370104 

The Atmosphere of a Fluid System suggests music which, 

while intricately interconnected, forms a gesture of fluid 

upward motion. There is no prescribed traditional musical 

form in which the music develops. 

12 minutes 

Blue Fiddler 

Full orchestra 

3 fl (I+picc), 2 ob, 3 cl (III+bcl), 2 bn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, 

tba, timp, 3 perc, pn, str 


Blue Fiddler, in three uninterrupted sections, is an essay 

which explores the relationship between American blues 

and country fiddling and the symphonic tradition. 

12 minutes 

Fanfare: Sizzle 


picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, bcl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 4 tpt, 4 tbn, tba, 

timp, 3 perc, pn, str Percussion: xylo, maracas, tamb, 

pod tattle, wood block (small), sus sym (small), high 

hat, chimes, slap stick, pod rattle, sizzle sym, mba 


‘The architectural structure of a fanfare challenges a 

composer to make a single statement that is concise and 

to the point without the need for the usual techniques one 

uses to spin out motivic and harmonic progression, texture, 

and tempo in order to construct a lengthy orchestral work.’ 

—Libby Larsen. 

7 minutes 

Orchestral Works 

Overture for the End of a Century 


2 fl, picc, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, timp, 3 

perc [1-tamb, sn drum, susp cymb, woodblock. 2-xylo, 

tri, orchestra bells, bongos. 3-marimba, tom-toms 

(medium, low)]. pno, str 


The Overture for the End of a Century takes its melody, 

harmony and colour from the tradition which has defined 

the orchestra in our century while at the same time 

exploring some ‘new’ approaches to sound which have 

become part of our musical world in the last part of this 

century, such as the mixing board, the computer screen, 

and the synthesizer. 

6 minutes 

Ring of Fire 



timp, 2 perc, hp, str 


A tone poem expressing a line from section IV of T.S. Eliot’s 

poem, ‘Little Gidding’. Larsen uses the orchestral textures 

and solo instruments to create images of fire and passion, 

with flames created by short woodwind arpeggios, and 

rhythmic motifs in the brass. 

12 minutes 

Roll Out the Thunder 



timp, 2 perc, 2 hp, cel, str 


Written to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Des 

Moines Symphony Orchestra, Larsen uses tolling bell 

patterns from churches in and around Moscow to create a 

jubilant atmosphere. 

6 minutes 

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Solo Symphony 

(Symphony No. 5) 



timp, 3 perc, pn, str (inc. elec bass) 


A symphony for orchestra in four movements. Larsen 

says in her note for this piece: ‘A solo is a group. The effort 

of many becomes the effort of one to produce a unified 

sound, a unified music. This symphony is about the one 

and the many... This is a listener’s symphony, as well as a 

solo display. In fact, the listener is the true soloist.’ 

27 minutes 

Still Life with Violin 

Violin and full orchestra 

violin solo, 3 fl (+picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 2 hn, 4 tpt, 3 

tbn, tba, timp, 2 perc, str 

Score and parts on hire 9780193867222 

Larsen’s purpose when writing this piece was to ‘invite the 

listener to listen closely to the beauty of the violin as an 

instrument within the orchestral palette and at the same 

time to breathe in and deeply feel the power of the violin’. 

13 minutes 

Libby Larsen 

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Libby Larsen 

Concert and Wind Band 

Concert Dances 

Wind band 

picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, cl in A, bcl, 2 asx, 2 tsx, barisx, bn, 

3 hn, 3 tpt, 3 tbn, euph, tba, timp, 2 perc, mallets, 

pn 


In Concert Dances, Larsen applies the sensibilities of 

orchestral composition to concert winds, focussing on 

aspects such as solo lines, orchestral colour and texture, 

and lyrical melodies, as well as using wind instruments one 

normally would use the string section in a full orchestra. 

16 minutes 

Fanfare: Strum 

Wind band or orchestra without strings 

picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, 3 cl (I+Ebcl, II&III+cl in A), bn, cbn, 4 hn, 

3 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, timp, perc (high hat cym), db 


Commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra (USA) 

and premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing 

Arts, Washington D.C. in 1996. 

4 minutes 

An Introduction to the Moon 

Symphonic winds, tuned water glasses, and 

amplified voice 

picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, 3 cl, bcl, contra bcl, 2 bn, 5 sax, 4 hn, 3 

tpt, 3 tbn, tba, euph, db, timp, 3 perc 

Score 9780193868960 

Set of parts 9780193868977 

Hire conductor’s score 9780193371248 

The piece consists of nine fully notated sections which 

surround eight sections of improvised music. Each of the 

improvised sections includes the reading of a poem which 

refers to the moon. 

13 minutes 

Short Symphony 

Wind band 

picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, ca, 2 cl, bcl, 3 sax, 2 bn, 3 hn, 4 tpt, 3 

tbn, euph, 2 tba, timp, 3 perc, pn 


Short Symphony takes the listener on a journey through 

four movements: Allegro - Adagio in One Phrase - Scherzo- 

Rag - Vivace. This piece was commissioned by the United 

States Air Force Band. 

13 minutes 

Strut 

Concert band 

picc, 2 fl, 2 ob, bn, 3 cl, bcl, cbcl (opt.), 2 asx, tsx, 3 tpt, 

4 hn, 2 tbn, btbn, euph, tba, db, perc. 


Commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the Music 

Department, St Olaf’s College, Northfield, MN, Strut draws 

on all meanings of the word so the band can really ‘strut its 

stuff’. 

8 minutes 

String Orchestra 

String Symphony 

(Symphony No. 4) 

String orchestra 

Study score 9780193860834 


A celebration of orchestral strings in three strongly 

contrasting movements which showcase the lyrical, 

emotional, and diverse abilities of this core section of the 

orchestra. 

25 minutes 

40

Barn Dances 

Flute, clarinet, and piano 


Score 9780193865785 

Barn Dances is a set of four abstract pieces drawing 

their titles from a particular dance step used in cowboy 

dances. Larsen’s idea was to take a flight of fancy in 

each movement and create the musical equivalent of a 

character drawing. This lively set encompasses various 

styles including hoedown jig, swing, and waltz. 

13 minutes 

Bid Call 

Alto saxophone and cello 

Score 9780193868427 

This is a piece about how auctioneers’ styles, pitches, 

timing, and complex rhythms merge to become what is 

their own ‘bid call’. 

9 minutes 

Black Birds, Red Hills 

B flat clarinet, viola, and piano 


Black Birds, Red Hills is inspired by six Georgia O’Keeffe 

paintings, each exploring the flow of time and colour 

on her beloved red hills of New Mexico. This reflective 

portrayal is set in four movements, each focussing on a 

different aspect of perspective, beauty and meaning. 

9 minutes 

Blue Third Pieces 

Flute or B flat clarinet and guitar 

Score 9780193863002 

Blue Third Pieces is a homage to the interval of the third 

and its place in the blues. Including references to Ray 

Charles and using samples from Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny 

Clark’s 1945 jazz piece ‘Salt Peanuts’, a slow improvisatory 

movement is paired with a lively syncopated one. A stylish 

work for an interesting duo. 

6 minutes 

Brass Flight 

Brass choir - 2 trumpets, 4 horns, 3 trombones, and 

2 tubas 


In this three movement work, Larsen imagined a large, 

graceful, brass butterfly. The movements ‘Glint’, ‘Glow’, and 

‘Glide’ evoke particular aspects of this fantastical creature. 

The piece was commissioned for the inaugural concert of 

Monarch Brass. 

11 minutes 

Firebrand 

Piccolo or flute, violin, cello, and piano 


Larsen states that she chose the instruments for Firebrand 

for their colour, combination, and agility. However, rather 

than a nonstop, wildly virtuosic affair that might be 

suggested from the title, it is in fact quite the opposite: the 

piece centres on the image of a flame moving outwards 

towards its turbulent and flickering edges. A refrain from 

June Carter Cash’s song ‘Ring of Fire’ is also interwoven 

throughout the piece, in homage to the famous songwriter 

who died whilst Larsen was composing the piece. 

4 minutes 

Four on the floor 

Violin, cello, double bass, and piano 

Full score and set of parts 9780193861305 

Hire score and parts on hire 9780193405103 

In the 1940s and 50s, ‘four on the floor’ referred to a high 

performance car with a four-speed gearbox and a gear 

change mounted on the floor. And that is the characteristic 

of this piece - fast, loud, wild, and attention-grabbing. 

5 minutes 

Slang 

B flat clarinet, violin, and piano 


A one‐movement work in three sections for clarinet, 

violin, and piano. The title refers to the use of both jazz 

and boogie slang and twentieth-century ‘new music’ slang 

throughout the composition. 

13 minutes 

Libby Larsen 

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Libby Larsen 

String Quartet: Schoenberg, 

Schenker, and Schillinger 


Instrumental parts on hire 9780193860292 

The work is based around the three theorists named above, 

who have dominated the thinking of aspiring composers. 

Each movement reflects Larsen’s belief in a shift from 

melody-dominated to rhythmically-defined texture over 

the course of the 20th century. 

20 minutes 

Trio 

Violin, cello, and piano 


The piece is a fairly athletic work in three movements. 

The first and third are very rhythmic, fast, and hauntingly 

jazz-like in a style reminiscient of Miles Davis. The second 

movement is quite placid, free flowing, and very quiet. 

19 minutes 

Xibalba 

Bassoon and 2 percussion 

Hire score and parts 9780193859937 

Xibalba is a rhythm piece for bassoon and percussion 

named for the ancient city, the ruins of which are in the 

subterranean caves of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. 

12 minutes 

Yellow Jersey 

Two clarinets or two alto saxophones 

Clarinet score 9780193868410 

Saxophone score 9780193397606 

Composed during the year between Lance Armstrong’s 

fifth and sixth victories in the Tour de France, Yellow 

Jersey is a short wind sprint, originally composed for two 

clarinets. The form of the piece follows how the sprint 

would go as the cyclist moves through the stages of the 

race. 

8 minutes 

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Blessed be the tie that binds 

Organ 

Score 9780193864078 

Larsen’s fantasia on the familiar hymn-tune boasts richly 

atmospheric organ writing and is well-suited to weddings 

or services focussing on fellowship or reconciliation. 

3 minutes 

Concert piece for tuba and 

piano 

Tuba and piano 

Score 9780193862913 

This excellent addition to the tuba repertoire allows this 

oft-neglected instrument to demonstrate its more versatile 

side. This piece explores a 3-octave range, allowing the 

tuba to combine fast-paced passages (even including 

fierce glissandi) with lyrical contemplative melodies before 

returning to the exuberant tone of the opening. 

6 minutes 

Dancing Solo 

Clarinet 

Score 9780193859685 

Dancing Solo gives clarinettists an excellent chance to 

display their technical prowess in a widely varied, dramatic, 

and colourful context. 

25 minutes 

Fanfare for the Women 

Trumpet in C 

Score 9780193860070 

The music is composed to create layers of tonality which 

overlap in space, especially in a vast space with a long 

acoustic decay. 

2.5 minutes 

Holy Roller 

Alto saxophone solo and piano or wind band 

Alto saxophone and piano 9780193861275 

Hire score and parts - wind band 9780193863552 

Holy Roller is inspired by classical revival preaching and 

the music seeks to represent the language: cajoling 

and incanting, with the intention of magnetizing and 

mesmerizing the listener through the use of what Larsen 

describes as “musical masterpieces of rhythm, tempo and 

extraordinary tension and release.’ 

6 minutes 


Mephisto Rag 

Piano 

Score 9780193865891 

Larsen derives a Joplinesque ragtime theme from one of 

the most familiar passages from Liszt’s Mephisto pieces 

and builds it into a grand showpiece on the Romantic 

model for advanced pianists. It builds to a satisfyingly 

tempestuous climax. 

8 minutes 

On a day of bells 

Organ 

Score 9780193867864 

The piece is a fantasy memorializing the peals of the bells 

of Moscow square. Larsen writes, ‘I have loosely transcribed 

bell patterns from a field recording of Russian bells . . . the 

Communist persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church 

included the removal and destruction of Russian bells, 

many of which were melted down into ammunition.’ 

8 minutes 

Penta Metrics: Five pieces for 

solo piano 

Piano 

Score 9780193869318 

Penta Metrics is a set of five short pieces for intermediatelevel 

pianists. The set is composed so that it can be 

played as a group of five works, or with pieces performed 

individually. Each piece is composed to highlight certain 

aspects of music and certain scales. 

8 minutes 

Prelude on ‘Veni creator spiritus’ 

Organ 

Score 9780193864603 

Larsen’s flowing meditation on the ‘Veni creator’ tune 

was written as the Pentecost entry for a multi-composer 

anthology based on the liturgical year. It was given one 

of the highest rankings in a survey of pieces that most 

strongly moved listeners to prayer. 

2 minutes 

Viola Sonata 


Score 9780193865983 

Larsen’s beautiful piece is absolute music in a standard 

classical layout with an emphasis on long lyrical lines. A 

good piece for conservatory and university students. 

19 minutes 

Libby Larsen 

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Jenny Mahler 

Come Alive 

SSA & piano, with optional melody instrument 

Vocal score 9780193561342 

Digital 9780193561397 

With lyrics by the composer, Come Alive explores the 

scientific notion that energy never dies, but instead 

transforms into or transfers to something new. The optional 

instrumental part may be played by any suitable melody 

instrument in C, including glockenspiel, xylophone, flute, 

and violin. 

4 minutes 

The Compass 

SA & piano 

Vocal score 9780193561359 

Digital 9780193561403 

The Compass uses evocative imagery to describe how 

feelings of being lost and adrift can be assuaged by 

journeying towards self-acceptance and positive change. 

A characterful four-note motif punctuates the piano 

part, which provides a steady rhythmic cushion for the 

stylistically syncopated and catchy melodic lines. 

4 minutes 

Snow is Silent 

SATB, body percussion & congas 

Vocal score 9780193544062 

Digital 9780193544079 

An energetic piece setting a text full of natural imagery. 

Mahler’s catchy melodies are combined with speech, 

body percussion, and congas to imitate the contrasting 

characteristics of rain. Dramatic and expressive - this is 

the perfect performance piece to get stuck into! Also 

published in Breath of Song. 

2.5 minutes 

- Jenny Mahler - 


The Tide 

SSA & piano 

Vocal score 9780193561366 

Digital 9780193561410 

In this captivating piece Mahler explores feelings of doubt 

and insecurity, employing the compelling metaphor of 

the tide and asking searching questions in a quest for 

existential meaning. Bewitching piano cascades and rolling 

broken chords accompany addictive melodies, with strong 

three-part harmonies in the chorus providing a supportive 

anchor to the more soloistic verses. 

2.5 minutes 

44

- Cecilia McDowall - 

b. 1951 

Cecilia McDowall 

Born in London, Cecilia McDowall has won many 

awards and been short-listed eight times for the 

British Composer Awards. In 2014, she won the Choral 

category of the British Composer Awards for her 

haunting work, Night Flight (for SSATB and cello solo), 

which celebrates the pioneering flight of the American 

aviatrix, Harriet Quimby, across the English Channel. 

Cecilia is a signed composer with Oxford University 

Press and is currently Composer-in-Residence at 

Dulwich College, London. In 2013, she received an 

Honorary Doctorate in Music from the University of 

Portsmouth. 

Cecilia McDowall has a distinctive style which speaks 

directly to instrumentalists and singers as well as to 

listeners. Her most characteristic works fuse fluent 

melodic lines with occasional dissonant harmonies 

and rhythmic exuberance. Her music has been 

commissioned and performed by leading choirs, 

including the BBC Singers, Kansas City Chorale, 

the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, and many 

instrumental and orchestral ensembles. Her music is 

performed, recorded, and broadcast worldwide. 

McDowall’s works are regularly broadcast on BBC 

Radio and readily available on CD and streaming 

platforms. Recent releases that feature her work 

include The Sixteen’s Song of the Nativity (Coro), 

Christmas with St John’s (Hyperion) by St John’s 

College Choir, Cambridge and Trinity College Choir 

Cambridge’s ‘Cecilia McDowall: Sacred Choral Music 

(Hyperion). Three Latin Motets were recorded by the 

renowned American choir, Phoenix Chorale; this 

Chandos recording, Spotless Rose, won a Grammy 

award and was nominated for Best Classical Album. 

Recent significant commissions include Da Vinci 

Requiem (2019) for Wimbledon Choral Society, written 

to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s 

death, and Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo 

(2018), commissioned by the National Children’s Choir 

of Great Britain. Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo 

tells the story of Kurdish teenager, Nujeen Mustafa’s 

incredible journey across Europe from war-torn Syria 

in a wheelchair, never giving into despair but affecting 

those around her with her never-ceasing spirit of 

optimism and wonder. 

In December 2020, McDowall was presented with the 

prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Works 

Collection. 

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Ave maris stella 

SATB and string orchestra or keyboard 

Vocal score 9780193359499 


Vocal score on hire 9780193376748 

This beautiful and moving piece in seven sections 

combines text from the Ave maris stella antiphon and 

Psalms 26 and 106. Starting and finishing in a mood of 

peace and certainty, the work is structured around a 

turbulent middle section anticipating the gathering storm. 

12 minutes 

Da Vinci Requiem 

Soprano solo, baritone solo, SATB, and orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193519022 



This significant seven-movement work from Cecilia 

McDowall presents an imaginative pairing of extracts 

from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci with texts from 

the Latin Missa pro defunctis. Da Vinci’s reflective and 

penetrating insights into the nature of mortality and all 

that it encompasses cast new light on the familiar Requiem 

texts, and McDowall employs her orchestral forces to create 

a rich, atmospheric backdrop to the profound narrative 

presented by the chorus and soprano and baritone soloists. 

Dark, sonorous writing precedes an energetic ‘Sanctus’, 

and the closing bars of the luminous ‘Lux aeterna’ create a 

powerful allusion to da Vinci’s concept of ‘The Perspective 

of Disappearance’. 

35 minutes 

Magnificat 

SATB, soprano solo, mezzo-soprano solo, and 

chamber orchestra or piano 

2 ob (I+ca), bn, str 

Vocal score 9780193359482 



McDowall has skilfully united luscious harmonies with 

fresh melodies and crisp rhythms in this vibrant work. 

Divided into six movements, Magnificat is ideal for SATB 

choirs seeking fresh and inspiring new sacred repertoire 

suitable for concert use. 

28 minutes 

Choral Works Sacred 

Missa Mariae 

SSA and organ 

Vocal score 9780193417540 

Digital 9780193537200 

This concise Latin mass setting is entirely suitable for 

liturgical use, but the sharply delineated characters of the 

different movements make it also an appealing concert 

work. The organ part is supportive, but full of interest and 

not merely accompanimental. Particularly memorable are 

the Gloria, with its constantly shifting time-signatures, and 

the haunting Agnus Dei. 

11 minutes 

Some corner of a foreign field 

Tenor solo, SATB (with divisions), strings, and 

harp 

Vocal score 9780193404540 


Vocal material on hire 9780193411517 

Written as part of McDowall’s tenure as composer in 

residence at Dulwich College, Some corner of a foreign field 

was commissioned to mark the centenary of the First World 

War. A profoundly moving cantata, it draws on biblical texts 

associated with the acclaimed pupil of Dulwich College, 

Sir Ernest Shackleton, his 1916 Antarctic Expedition, 

and Rupert Brooke. This beautiful work, with its lustrous 

harmonies and its poignant tenor solo, offers choirs an 

immensely rewarding experience. 

18 minutes 

Stabat Mater 

Baritone solo, SATB, children’s choir or semi-chorus, 

and small orchestra or keyboard 

fl, cl, bn, 2 hn, hp, str 

Vocal score 9780193400498 



McDowall’s setting of the Stabat Mater comprises seven 

movements in a symmetrical structure. A plaintive 

meditation on the sorrows of the Virgin Mary as she stands 

by the Cross, McDowall’s Stabat Mater is a sophisticated 

modern alternative to more well-known settings. 

30 minutes 

46

Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred 

Adoro te devote 

SSATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193408272 

Setting part of a Eucharistic hymn text by Thomas 

Aquinas, this piece is flowing and expressive. It features 

homophonic sections, melismatic lines, and optional 

soaring soprano solos. Adoro te devote is dedicated to the 

memory of the victims of the Nepalese Earthquake in 2015. 

4 minutes 

Alma Redemptoris Mater 

SSATBB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193378339 

This is a beautiful six-part unaccompanied Marian motet 

written for the Marian Consort. The work combines 

reminiscences of Renaissance settings of this text with 

McDowall’s distinctive contemporary voice. 

4.5 minutes 

Aurea luce 

SATB (with divisions) and organ 

Vocal score 9780193378063 

Commissioned and first performed by the choir of 

Liverpool Cathedral, this anthem is ideal for use during 

the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. The choral lines move 

between sonorous homophonic writing and vibrant 

imitative passages, and are underpinned by a repeated 

quaver motif in the organ, combining a sense of joy with 

moments of reflection. 

4.5 minutes 

Ave Maria 


Vocal score 9780193355569 

Digital 9780193535770 

This is the second and most intimate of the composer’s 

Three Latin Motets. Scored for upper voices, this gentle 

supplication to the Virgin is built on a plainchant opening, 

and contains expressive dissonances and suspensions in a 

setting of great purity and directness. 

2 minutes 


Ash Wednesday 


Vocal score 9780193524200 

Digital 9780193538528 

Ash Wednesday sets typically fervent verses by Christina 

Rossetti. The vocal lines are mostly simple and affecting, 

with some highly individual harmonies, while the organ 

part is by turns expressive and showy. 

5 minutes 

Ave Regina 


Vocal score 9780193355576 

The first of Three Latin Motets, ‘Ave Regina’ is a gentle and 

lyrical setting of the text ‘Hail, Queen of the Heavens’. 

The calm and memorable opening phrase is hinted at in 

passages of more intensity, and its partial statement at the 

end leaves it lingering after the voices have faded away. 

2 minutes 

Bless to me this day 

SSA or SATB and piano or organ 

SSA Vocal score 9780193386211 

SSA Digital 9780193535879 

SATB Digital † 9780193545434 

Bless to me this day is a tranquil setting of ‘The Journey 

Prayer’ from the Celtic compendium Carmina Gadelica. 

The sense of prescient optimism is captured in the flowing 

piano part, while the simplicity of the vocal lines enables 

the text to be imparted with warmth and sincerity. 

4 minutes 

47


Candlemas 

SSATB and organ 

Vocal score 9780193396982 

McDowall’s Candlemas is a celebratory and powerful piece. 

Making use of choral divisions and suspensions, and a 

dynamic organ part, this setting of Denise Levertov’s text is 

reverent, yet joyous, and is ideal for a liturgical setting. 

5 minutes 

Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee 

Soprano solo and SSATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193413757 

Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee is a reflective and reverential setting 

of a text adapted from the Divine Office for St Cecilia’s Day. 

The influence of plainchant is particularly apparent in the 

soprano solo, and McDowall intersperses effective imitative 

passages amidst homophonic writing with rich harmonies. 

5.5 minutes 

Celestial Fire 


Vocal score 9780193396999 

The hymn ‘Come, Holy Ghost’ lies at the heart of Celestial 

Fire. Here, McDowall has woven the exquisite poetry of 

Denise Levertov into this expressive and uplifting piece. 

At times quietly meditative, Celestial Fire unfolds to a most 

joyous, affirmative conclusion. 

4 minutes 

De Profundis (Night Raid) 


Vocal score 9780193522954 

Digital 9780193538375 

This atmospheric anthem commemorates the First World 

War. It sets a stark English text by Dr Joseph Spence 

alongside Latin text from Psalm 130, with the words ‘In 

memoriam’ added. The lower parts sing Spence’s English 

text, conveying the relentless hardship of life in the 

trenches with declamatory and constantly developing 

vocal lines. The sopranos, meanwhile, repeat the Latin 

words from Psalm 130, providing a striking contrast in their 

constancy and otherworldliness. 

5.5 minutes 

Deus, portus pacis 


Vocal score 9780193368347 

This anthem sets a medieval English poem to 

contemplative music with all the hallmarks of McDowall’s 

style: expressive melismas, well-placed astringent 

harmonies, and a strong modal feel. 

5.5 minutes 

Easter Light 


Vocal score 9780193415713 

Digital 9780193537095 

With a newly written text by Angier Brock, this compelling 

anthem is a welcome addition to the traditional Easter 

repertoire. Easter Light explores a variety of styles and 

colours, from organ solos suggestive of the song of the 

Eastern meadowlark to a meditative section in the manner 

of plainchant. 

4.5 minutes 

A Gaelic Blessing 


Vocal score 9780193564831 

This meditative, folk-style anthem is given a Scottish lilt 

through the use of Scotch snap rhythms and held dronelike 

vocal lines. McDowall chose to set this traditional 

Scottish Gaelic Blessing for the ‘warmth and simplicity’ of 

the words that seem to ‘resonate with the times in which 

we live’. 

3 minutes 

God be with us 


Vocal score 9780193543904 

Digital 9780193543928 

This uplifting anthem sets the Invocation text from 

Carmina Gadelica. McDowall’s beautiful melodies flow and 

intertwine, decorated by scotch snaps that reflect the text’s 

origin. Suitable for services or concerts. Also published in 

Breath of Song. 

2.5 minutes 

48

God is Light 


Vocal score 9780193415652 

God is Light sets lines from Psalm 139, 1 Thessalonians, 

and 1 John. It moves from an unsettled tonality at the 

beginning, through anguished false relations and wistful 

expressivity, to find triumphant resolution in a blazing A 

major at the end. Like all of McDowall’s music, it is well 

crafted and singable. 

5 minutes 

I know that my redeemer liveth 

SSA(A)TB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193417557 

Digital 9780193537217 

This attractive motet was written for performance 

alongside Brahms’s Requiem, following the precedent of 

Handel’s famous setting of the same text being sung at the 

premiere of the Requiem in 1868. The gracefully sculpted 

music clothes the text with touching melodies, expressive 

harmonies, and varied sonorities. 

4.5 minutes 

I obey thee, O Lord (Lacrimosa) 

SATB (with divisions) and piano or organ 

Vocal score 9780193529052 

Digital 9780193531673 

The third movement of McDowall’s powerful Da Vinci 

Requiem, ‘I obey thee, O Lord’ is a compelling pairing of the 

‘Lacrimosa’ text from the Latin Missa pro defunctis with 

extracts from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, and has 

a poignant, tender simplicity. The composer has reworked 

the keyboard part from the parent work to facilitate 

performance by piano or organ. 

4.5 minutes 

Jesu, the very thought of thee 

SSAATTBB and organ 

Vocal score 9780193378346 

This poignant anthem was originally composed to be sung 

at a funeral. It is a beautifully composed work, sufficiently 

sombre for such an occasion, but with a celebratory 

element that is uplifting and comforting. 

8.5 minutes 

Light Eternal 

SSATB, organ, and opt. tubular bell or handbell 

Vocal score 9780193394698 

Light Eternal brings together the liturgical text for 

Remembrance, Lux Aeterna, and the evocative poetry 

of Denise Levertov. Commissioned as part of a trilogy, 

Light Eternal has a haunting and exotic quality, the music 

beautifully illustrating the sense of the texts. Suitable 

for Remembrance and other occasions of solemn 

commemoration. 

4 minutes 

The Lord is Good 

Two soprano soloists and SATB (with divisions) 

unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193382657 

This engagingly written piece sets the Lamentations of 

Jeremiah. The overlapping passages of music passed 

between the soloists and the choir create a dramatic effect, 

whilst the harmonic language gives the music a sense of 

regret. 

5 minutes 

Love Incorruptible 


Vocal score 9780193524194 

Digital 9780193538511 

Love Incorruptible sets words from Ephesians that explore 

the themes of love and kindness. The anthem begins with 

the directive ‘Let all bitterness and wrath and anger be 

put away, awake!’, set in a way that engenders a mood of 

reflection and hopefulness. The tender central section is 

built around the words ‘Be kind, tender-hearted, one to 

another’, while the closing section presents a compelling 

contrast of emphatic ‘awake!’ declarations in the upper 

voices and punchily rhythmic repetitions of the titular 

words in the lower voices. 

4 minutes 


49


The Loving Memory 


Vocal score 9780193514461 

This joyous, upbeat anthem sets a compelling poem by 

contemporary poet Seán Street in response to a text by 

sixteenth-century Bishop of Norwich John Parkhurst 

on the subject of ‘alma mater’. The text encourages us 

to appreciate the past, our education, and where it can 

lead, reflecting on the profound ties we can form to a 

time or a place. The bright, driving organ part, with solo 

interjections, is juxtaposed with sustained vocal writing 

and its rich, lush harmonies. 

4 minutes 

O sing unto the Lord 


Vocal score 9780193410794 

Digital 9780193536753 

This joyful setting of Psalm 98 is a bright and celebratory 

anthem of praise. The intricate organ writing offsets 

emphatic statements from the choir full of melodic 

and harmonic interest while grounded in assertive 

homorhythm. 

4 minutes 

A Prayer of St Columba 

SATB or SABar and organ or piano 



SABar Vocal score 9780193519053 


A Prayer of St Columba is an expressive and emotive 

anthem with appealing, arching melodies underpinned by 

a sparkling organ part. 

3.5 minutes 

A Prayer to St John the Baptist 


Vocal score 9780193527836 

Digital 9780193531529 

A Prayer to St John the Baptist sets an artfully crafted text 

that combines Guido d’Arezzo’s Ut queant laxis (itself a 

Hymn to John the Baptist, as well as a medieval musicteaching 

mnemonic) with Thomas Merton’s poem on 

the same subject. The organ’s flowing quavers represent 

Merton’s baptismal ‘rivers of water’, while the largely 

octatonic melodies conjure a tellingly mysterious 

atmosphere. 

4 minutes 

Preces and Responses 


Vocal score 9780193381483 

This set of Preces and Responses was commissioned by the 

London Festival of Contemporary Church Music for their 

2010 festival. The work is uplifting, beautifully crafted, and 

perfect for those seeking new material for the liturgy. 

6 minutes 

Psalm 65 

Soprano solo, SATB, organ or keyboard, and opt. 

trumpet 

Vocal score 9780193400948 

Trumpet part 9780193412538 

This joyful and richly expressive choral cantata is a setting 

of what is often thought of as a Thanksgiving psalm or 

a psalm in praise of Harvest time. From its atmospheric 

opening through to its upbeat ending, the work contrasts 

driving rhythms with quietly reflective passages for 

soprano solo. Performable with or without trumpet, Psalm 

65 is a vibrant concert work and a great joy to sing. 

12 minutes 

Regina Caeli 

SSAA or SATB unaccompanied 




This hymn to the ‘Queen of the Heavens’ is a glorious work, 

replete with dramatic changes of mood and texture. The 

majestic chords of the opening bars quickly give way to 

a spirited exchange between the voices. This pattern of 

contrasts is repeated throughout the piece before the 

final jubilant chords fade away to pianissimo. This is an 

approachable and rewarding motet, appropriate for any 

time of the year and, in particular, the Feast of the Blessed 

Virgin Mary and Eastertide. 

3 minutes 

Rise heart; thy Lord is risen 


Vocal score 9780193532694 

Digital 9780193532700 

This expressive, proclamatory setting of verses from 

George Herbert’s ‘Easter’ features eminently singable vocal 

lines, antiphonal writing, and imaginative word-painting. 

4 minutes 

50

Standing as I do before God 

Soprano solo and SATB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193407626 

Setting a text spoken by Nurse Edith Cavell on the eve of 

her execution in 1915 and re-fashioned by the poet Seán 

Street, McDowall has created a work of haunting beauty 

full of gently lamenting harmonies. The sombre subject 

matter makes the piece equally suitable for funerals and 

Remembrance Day celebrations. 

7 minutes 

Vita Mundo 


Vocal score 9780193402850 

A setting of Psalm 127 (Unless the Lord builds the house), 

this compelling anthem possesses a luminescent quality 

supported by radiant harmonic textures. It is framed by 

Latin text taken from the Saxon stone cross at St Paul’s, 

Jarrow, associated with St Bede, and set in quasi-plainchant 

fashion. Psalm 127 is one of the Psalms of Ascent, often 

occurring throughout the liturgical calendar. With an 

elegant simplicity, Vita Mundo is uplifting and rewarding to 

sing. 

5 minutes 


51


Everyday Wonders: The Girl from 

Aleppo 

SSAA or upper voices and SATB, solo violin, and 

piano 

Upper voices and SATB vocal score 9780193522589 


Violin part 9780193524842 

Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo tells the 

extraordinary story of Nujeen Mustafa, a Kurdish teenager 

with cerebral palsy forced by war to flee her home and 

embark on an arduous journey to Europe with her sister. 

In this five-movement cantata Nujeen’s story—recounted 

in her biography ‘The Girl from Aleppo’ (co-authored by 

Christina Lamb)—is retold by Kevin Crossley-Holland and 

richly scored by Cecilia McDowall. A wealth of musical 

effects are employed to capture the narrative, including 

chorales, rhythmic spoken sections, body percussion, and 

a solo violin part infused with Middle Eastern flavours. The 

prevailing mood of Nujeen’s story is embodied by the final 

line of a chorale that bookends this unique concert work: 

‘singing the song of life itself.’ 

18 minutes 

A Fancy of Folksongs 

SATB and harp or piano 

Vocal score 9780193368767 

Harp part 9780193368750 


Harp part on hire 9780193376762 

This delightful work brings together arrangements of four 

well-loved folksongs: ‘Green Bushes’, ‘The Rambling Sailor’, 

‘The Crystal Spring’, and ‘O, No John!’. A joyful celebration 

of youthful love and courtship, it bears all the hallmarks of 

McDowall’s appealing and popular style: rhythmic vitality, 

occasional astringent harmonies, and strong melodies, 

creating a distinctive and fresh sound. 

11 minutes 

Night Flight 

SSATB and cello 

Vocal score 9780193408227 

Cello part 9780193408210 

Night Flight was written to mark the centenary of Harriet 

Quimby’s pioneering flight across the English channel. 

Setting texts by Sheila Bryer on the powers of the sea, 

earth, and air, McDowall uses vocal clusters and haunting 

solo cello lines to highlight the sense of fear, awe, and 

majesty experienced by an individual pitted against the 

elements. 

13 minutes 


Shipping Forecast 

SSATB and piano or string orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193379725 


Shipping Forecast is in three movements: ‘Donegal’, ‘They 

that go down to the sea in ships’, and ‘Naming’. The first 

and last movements are settings of poems by the poet, 

broadcaster, and academic, Seán Street. In ‘Donegal’, 

snatches of the shipping forecast are woven into the 

atmospheric texture of the poem. The second movement 

is a setting of the Psalm 107: 23-26 | 28-29. Energetic, in 

perpetual motion, and rhythmic, ‘Naming’ drives the whole 

work to an upbeat finish. 

13 minutes 

A Time for all Seasons 

Soprano solo, upper voices, SSATB, piano, 

and opt. percussion 

Vocal score 9780193411487 

An evocative cantata that explores the complexities of the 

human condition. The well-known ‘To every thing there is a 

season’ text from Ecclesiastes is interwoven with a modernday 

reworking of verses by poet Kevin Crossley-Holland. 

McDowall’s impressive range of musical styles, effective 

antiphonal writing, and juxtaposition of textures create a 

meaningful experience for the listener. The part for upper 

voices may also be sung by a children’s choir. 

18 minutes 

When time is broke 

Three Shakespeare Songs 

SSAA or SSATB unaccompanied 


SSATB vocal score 9780193408241 

Cecilia McDowall’s fresh and appealing style is amply 

displayed in this cycle, subtitled ‘Three Shakespeare Songs’. 

In total, six Shakespeare texts are used, and McDowall’s 

response encompasses a fleet-footed impression of 

Scottish fiddle music, a gorgeously plangent slow 

movement, and a helter-skelter finale that broadens to a 

mysteriously pitchless ending. 

11 minutes 

52

Choral Leaflets/Octavos Secular 

As Each Leaf Dances 

Soprano solo, SSATB, and organ 

Vocal score 9780193517868 

As Each Leaf Dances is a setting of a powerful text by Kevin 

Crossley-Holland about the cruelty of child abuse being 

overcome by love and kindness. Reflecting this, the first 

section features a relentless organ part, jagged vocal lines, 

and dissonant harmonies, before giving way to a jaunty, 

dancing, and uplifting second section. 

6 minutes 

Be not afeard 


Vocal score 9780193525627 

Digital 9780193538665 

An atmospheric and expressive setting of Caliban’s dream 

from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, this piece transports 

the listener to a mysterious, dream-like place. McDowall 

effectively employs melismas and ornaments to create 

a sense of the other-worldly, and her rich, immersive 

harmonies perfectly characterize the reverie Shakespeare’s 

protagonist describes. 

3 minutes 

Come Home, Little Sister 


Vocal score 9780193518216 

Digital 9780193537453 

This delicate, spring-like poem, by poet Kevin Crossley- 

Holland, is an affectionate salutation to a newborn 

babe. The poet tells that the parents couldn’t decide on 

a name for their baby, and that instead of imposing an 

inappropriate name on her, they will welcome her into the 

garden of the world and wait for her to ‘declare’ herself. 

After a hushed introduction of whispered welcomes, the 

voices burst into a dance-like song in celebration of the 

new arrival’s homecoming. 

5.5 minutes 

Drink the Sky 

SA, piano, and percussion 

Vocal score 9780193393516 

Digital 9780193536135 

This is an uplifting and expressive setting of a fun, 

descriptive text by Christie Dickason that characterizes 

the sky in an imaginative way. The compelling melodies 

are underpinned by a dynamic piano part, often featuring 

rippling quavers, and characterful interjections from the 

glockenspiel and suspended cymbal complement the 

narrative. 

4.5 minutes 

Joy and Woe are woven fine 


Vocal score 9780193385504 

This poignant anthem, with text by William Blake, was 

originally composed to be sung at a funeral. It is a 

beautifully composed work, sufficiently sombre for such an 

occasion, but with a celebratory element which is uplifting 

and comforting. 

2.5 minutes 

Love’s Philosophy 


Vocal score 9780193407855 

Setting a well-known poem by Percy Shelley, Love’s 

Philosophy is a sweet and tender choral song reflecting 

on the idea of love with reference to nature and the 

interdependent relationships evident in the world around 

us. Mellifluous choral writing and sighing ‘ah’ interjections 

convey the sometimes wistful feel of Shelley’s words, and 

numerous repetitions of ‘thou’ at the end of the piece 

emphasize the theme of unrequited or lost love. 


53


Now is the Time 

SATB or SSA and piano 



SSA Digital † 9780193545441 

Written for the 2016 ‘Requiem to Cancer’ event at St Paul’s 

Church, Covent Garden, Now is the Time sets hopeful and 

inspirational words by Marie Curie. McDowall’s setting is 

optimistic and appealing, with charming interplay between 

the voices and piano. 

3.5 minutes 

On the Air (Dear Vaccine) 


Vocal score 9780193563278 

On the Air (Dear Vaccine) discusses the optimism for a 

post-COVID world and, particularly, the desire to sing 

together again. 

6 minutes 

Photo 51 


Vocal score 9780193543621 

Digital 9780193549067 

Composed for International Women’s Day, this 

mesmerising piece celebrates the centennary of Rosalind 

Franklin and sets her own words with additional text 

by the poet Seán Street. McDowall’s tribute to this 

underappreciated chemist and crystallographer combines 

intricate, intertwining melodies with ethereal harmonies 

beautifully capturing Franklin’s part in the discovery of the 

double helix structure. 

4 minutes 

A red, red rose 

Soprano solo and SSATB 

Vocal score 9780193400917 

Written for the wedding of the composer’s niece in 2012, 

this piece affectionately sets a poem of the same title 

by Robert Burns. It was first performed by Chantage in 

London’s Church of Scotland, St Columba’s, conducted by 

James Davey. With something intrinsically Scottish about 

it, this setting of the well-loved poem, although written 

specifically for a wedding, would suit almost any occasion. 

5 minutes 

Sigh no more, ladies 


Digital † 9780193545427 

To mark the four hundredth anniversary of the death of 

William Shakespeare, the anthology Shall I compare thee? 

features ten Shakespeare settings by Oxford composers. 

This piece by Cecilia McDowall sets the famous text from 

Much Ado About Nothing and is available separately in 

digital format only. 

3 minutes 

Would Like To Meet 

SSA and piano 

Vocal score 9780193402607 

Digital 9780193535947 

Would Like To Meet is taken from a suite of three pieces 

by Cecilia McDowall called Lonely Hearts, composed in 

2005. The whimsical text by Christie Dickason is a lonely 

hearts column written from the perspective of various 

animals and plants, and this imaginative theme is perfectly 

complemented by McDowall’s spirited and fun setting. The 

mood is light and energetic, the piano part characterful, 

and the accessible and appealing vocal lines feature 

interspersions of scat writing. 

2.5 minutes 

54

Advent & Christmas Works 

Christus Natus Est 

Soprano solo, SATB, children’s choir, and piano/ 

organ/chamber orchestra/brass 

Vocal score 9780193358935 

Hire score and parts - brass quintet 9780193359178 

Hire score and parts - chamber version 9780193359185 


This Christmas cantata presents a sequence of five carols. 

McDowall gives the familiar melodies a colourful, new 

harmonic treatment, and the arrangements range in 

atmosphere from tenderness to joyful exaltation. 

Personent Hodie • Entre le boeuf • Gaudete • Infant holy, 

infant lowly • Angelus ad virginem 

15 minutes 

A Winter’s Night 

SATB, brass quintet, organ, and percussion 

Vocal score 9780193403680 



This engaging fifteen-minute cantata combines several 

popular carols to create a performance full of Christmas 

spirit. Through creative re-harmonization, rhythmic 

variation, and imaginative linking passages, McDowall 

creates a joyful atmosphere, with both familiar and 

surprising material. 

15 minutes 


55


Advent Moon 

SATB, organ, and opt. handbells 

Vocal score 9780193403406 

Through luminous choral harmonies, images of a winter 

night, and echoes of scripture, Advent Moon evokes deep 

human longing as well as the promise of the coming of 

light. The delicate organ accompaniment and optional 

handbells underscore both the haunting opening and the 

radiant conclusion of this piece. 

4 minutes 

Annunciation 


Vocal score 9780193519770 

Digital 9780193537866 

Annunciation is an expressive and expansive Advent 

carol based on words from John Donne’s Holy Sonnets. 

McDowall creates a captivating atmosphere as the voices 

explore a soundworld that is mystical, reflective, and 

bright. The sensitive part-writing and accessible vocal lines 

will enable choirs of all types to profess the carol’s message 

of ‘salvation to all’. 

4 minutes 

Before the paling of the stars 


Vocal score 9780193396951 

This tender carol sets an affecting text by Christina Rossetti 

that tells the story of Jesus’s birth. In classic McDowall 

style, the setting explores a variety of choral textures and 

is interspersed with unexpected harmonies, creating a 

range of musical colours. The organ part provides a gentle, 

supportive accompaniment. 

4 minutes 

Advent & Christmas 

Leaflets/Octavos 

Brightest Star 


Vocal score 9780193532113 

Digital 9780193539617 

Written to commemorate the centenary of the foundation 

of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red 

Crescent Societies, Brightest Star sets a powerful text by 

Seán Street. The poem describes the call for assistance 

made by the occupied Channel Islands in 1944 and the 

response of the Red Cross ship, the Vega, which came to 

their aid, drawing parallels between this story and the 

light and hope of the seasons of Christmas and Epiphany. 

The bleak wartime conditions are portrayed by dissonant 

harmony and downward sliding phrases, and extracts 

from the Bailiff of Jersey’s letter of appeal, sung by the 

lower voices, draw attention to the gravity of the situation. 

In contrast, the upper voices bring an ethereal quality to 

the texture, with closing phrases that are suggestive of 

the traditional French carol Les anges dans nos campagnes 

(‘Angels, from the realms of glory’). 

4 minutes 

Christ is the morning star 


Vocal score 9780193408289 

This lively setting of the Venerable Bede’s Christ is the 

morning star features all the hallmarks of McDowall’s 

original and vibrant style. With rich harmonies, compelling 

modulations, and a flowing organ accompaniment, this 

piece is perfect for services and concerts throughout 

Advent. 

3.5 minutes 

A Christmas Carol 


Vocal score 9780193551619 

Digital 9780193551626 

This setting of the evocative poem by Chesterton is 

atmospheric and powerful. Showcasing McDowall’s 

distinctive style, its minor tonality, subtle chromaticisms, 

and whole-tone scales portray the contrasting voices in the 

text to breathtaking effect. 

3 minutes 

56

Cradle Song 


Digital † 9780193545762 

This exquisite lullaby setting of a William Blake text is taken 

from the collection For Him all Stars. 

2 minutes 

Gaude et laetare 


Vocal score 9780193401495 

Digital 9780193535893 

For this joyous piece, McDowall sets a text from the 

Ambrosian Rite celebrating the Virgin Mary’s recent 

motherhood. The lively organ accompaniment and strong 

rhythmic drive create an instantly celebratory mood. 

3.5 minutes 

Lo! He slumbers in his manger 


Vocal score 9780193535671 

Digital 9780193539624 

McDowall’s setting of Isaac Watts’ Cradle Hymn is beautifully 

tender, coloured by its rich harmonies, suspensions, and 

chromatic notes. The melodies are complemented by 

sustained ‘oo’s and ‘ah’s and rock gently with the changing 

time signatures, before ending unexpectedly in the tonic 

major. 

2.5 minutes 

Now may we singen 


Vocal score 9780193396968 

Digital 9780193525030 

Setting a fifteenth-century English text containing some 

short Latin passages, this is a joyful, dance-like carol with 

a medieval feel. The spirited, lilting melody begins in the 

sopranos and altos but is passed round the choir, while the 

other voices add stirring harmonies and bell-like drones to 

the texture. ‘Now may we singen’ was originally published 

in the New Horizons collection The Ivy and the Holly. 

4 minutes 

O magnum mysterium 

SATB (with divs) unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193562554 

Characteristically sung on Christmas Day, this Catholic 

chant depicts mystery and wonder at the birth of Jesus, as 

witnessed by the animals. Deep, sonorous chords open and 

close the piece, which has a sustained tempo that gives 

space for the melismatic vocal lines and rich harmonies to 

take full effect. 

3 minutes 

O nata lux 


Vocal score 9780193562578 

The O nata lux text is taken from a 10th-century 

anonymous hymn that uses the concept of light to 

symbolise hope, a particularly pertinent theme for Advent. 

Throughout this setting the sopranos intertwine their high, 

melodic lines above interjections from the lower voices, 

creating an atmosphere of ethereal luminosity. 

3.5 minutes 

O nata lux 


Vocal score 9780193562592 

Traditionally sung on Christmas Eve, ‘O Virgo virginum’ is 

often described as the eighth ‘O’ Antiphon and praises 

Mary, ‘O virgin of (amongst) virgins.’ McDowall’s setting 

is vigorous and joyful, with intimations of medieval 

plainchant. 

2.5 minutes 

O Oriens 

SSATB (with divisions) unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193388369 

Digital 9780193524996 

A setting of one of the seven Advent ‘O’ Antiphons, O 

Oriens makes use of luxurious and exotic harmonies, 

creating a shimmering texture reminiscent of the biblical 

Morning Star referenced in the title. The focus on human 

enlightenment in winter’s darkness means the piece is 

equally suitable for secular celebrations of Christmas. 

3.5 minutes 

The Presence 

SATB double choir unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193511989 

Digital 9780193537798 

This joyous, upbeat anthem sets a compelling poem by 

contemporary poet Seán Street in response to a text by 

sixteenth-century Bishop of Norwich John Parkhurst on 

the subject of ‘alma mater’. The text encourages us to 

appreciate the past, and our education, and where it can 

lead, reflecting on the profound ties we can form to a 

time or a place. The bright, driving organ part, with solo 

interjections, is juxtaposed with sustained vocal writing 

with rich, lush harmonies. 

5 minutes 


57


Are we on the same page? 



Written as the test piece for the CAVATINA Intercollegiate 

String Quartet Competition, this short piece gives 

ensembles an opportunity to display creativity by allowing 

experimentation with texture, dynamics, and articulation. 

3 minutes 

The Blackbird 

Wind quintet and opt. voice 


The Blackbird is a beautiful arrangement of a Welsh 

folksong. English translation by Margery Hargest Jones. 

5 minutes 

Rousseau’s Execution 

Two violins and viola 


This work for string trio is inspired by Jean-Jacques 

Rousseau’s Dictionnaire de Musique, with each of the three 

movements initiated by one of Rousseau’s musical entries. 

9 minutes 


Subject to the weather 

Wind quintet 


Subject to the Weather draws inspiration from the Welsh 

folk song The Blackbird and references Wesley’s hymn tune 

Aurelia: The Church’s one Foundation. The music evokes 

country life and birdsong in a charming, engaging style. 

5 minutes 

58

Orchestral/Larger Works 

Crossing the Bridge 



The title of this work comes from a haiku by the poet Alan 

Spence: ‘crossing the bridge - the other side is lost in mist’. 

The opening movement, ‘Mostar’, refers to the single arch 

stone bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which 

became a symbol of peace and hope in the late 1990’s. The 

middle movement, ‘London Bridge’, takes the last phrase of 

‘Mostar’ as its opening, exploring the darker tones of the 

lower instruments, and the first bar of ‘Brooklyn Bridge’ as 

its close. The third movement opens with a bright, staccato 

texture, and is in the shape of a palindrome or arch. 

11 minutes 

Great Hills 

Violin solo, two solo flutes, and string orchestra 


A pastiche on baroque techniques, this varied work is 

ideal for amateur orchestras. It is a concertante written as 

a companion piece to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4. 

Taking its title from the poem The South Country by Hilaire 

Belloc, Great Hills is inspired by the locality of Shipley, the 

connections are pastoral, historic, literary, and musical. 

12 minutes 

Rain, Steam, and Speed 

Chamber orchestra 


The composer’s inspiration for this work was the Turner 

painting of the same name that depicts a broad gauge 

engine steaming across Maidenhead Viaduct. Cecilia 

McDowall conveys a feeling of wide open spaces and 

pastoral repose in the opening section. From out of the 

calm, a clear rhythmic motif, pianissimo at first, rattles to a 

full orchestral crescendo, then gradually fades from view. 

10 minutes 

Seventy degrees below zero 

Tenor solo and orchestra 


Commissioned by the Scott Polar Research Institute and 

City of London Sinfonia as part of the Scott 100 Festival 

of Events, 2012. Seán Street was specially commissioned 

by the composer to write two poems for Seventy degrees 

below zero to sit alongside extracts from Robert Falcon 

Scott’s Journals and Scott’s letter addressed, ‘To my widow.’ 

Set in three movements—‘We Measure’, ‘The Ice Tree’, and 

‘To My Widow’ —McDowall’s music creates a soundscape 

set in the icy plains of the Antarctic, with a poignant finale 

as Scott writes to his wife for the last time. 

15 minutes 

Theatre of Tango 

Baritone, solo violin, and chamber orchestra 


Theatre of Tango begins with ‘The Dance’, which is full of 

rhythmic intensity and passion. This is contrasted by the 

haunting, spectral-like second movement,’ Ghost Light’, in 

which tubular bells and plucked strings contrast with high 

strings and lyrical voice line. The third movement, ‘A Tango 

of Time’, is perhaps the most clearly underpinned by the 

Argentine tango. With shades of menace and ruthlessness 

in this movement, Time steers its course towards an 

inevitable end. Texts by Seán Street. 

17 minutes 


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Before the paling of the stars 

Solo voice and piano 

High voice Digital 9780193558687 

Low voice Digital 9780193558694 

This tender carol sets an affecting text by Christina Rossetti 

that tells the story of Jesus’s birth. In classic McDowall 

style, the setting explores a variety of choral textures and is 

interspersed with unexpected harmonies, creating a range 

of musical colours. Also published in Oxford Solo Songs: 

Christmas 

3 minutes 

Four Shakespeare Songs 

Soprano and piano or string orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193396944 


Four Shakespeare Songs sets texts exploring different 

aspects of love. Using passages from various Shakespeare 

plays, McDowall’s writing is beautiful and clever in the 

way it reflects the moods and emotions of the various 

characters. 

10 minutes 

If I touched the Earth 

Baritone and piano 

Vocal score 9780193404021 

This work, commissioned by Jeremy Williams in association 

with the Vaughan Williams Trust, sets three poems by Dylan 

Thomas. The first is melancholic; the second contrasts the 

fearlessness of childhood with the caution of adulthood; 

and the third is a joyful setting that moves through the 

seasons. 

8 minutes 

Solo Voice 

Three Songs after Schubert 

Baritone and piano 

Vocal score 9780193531857 

Digital 9780193544475 

This characterful trilogy of songs sets poems by John 

Greening that present a vibrant, modern take on each 

of Schubert’s song cycles. The first draws on ‘Gute nacht’ 

from Der Winterreise, taking inspiration from Captain 

Scott’s perilous expedition to the Antarctic in 1911–12. 

The second, ‘after Ständchen’, has an air of darkness and 

mystery. The text of the third song alludes to Schubert’s 

‘Mein’ from Die Schöne Müllerin, and the musical setting is 

characterized by rapid semiquaver figuration in the piano 

and a vocal line full of dramatic expression. 

10 minutes 

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Falling Angels 

Solo cello and piano 


This piece draws inspiration from the book City of Falling 

Angels, which gives a rich portrayal of Venice. The use of 

extended melodies contrasted with fragmented phrases 

portray the beauty of this city. 

8 minutes 

Celebration 

Organ 

Score 9780193406131 

Composed for the University of Portsmouth’s degree 

ceremonies, this work captures the joy and excitement of 

such occasions, partly through the incorporation of text 

from Thomas Ravenscroft’s round ‘To Portsmouth’. 

6.5 minutes 

Church bells beyond the stars 

Organ 

Score 9780193393363 

This is the third in a trilogy of works inspired by the 

metaphysical poet, George Herbert. This piece, and the first 

in the trilogy, ‘Sounding Heaven and Earth’, draw their titles 

from George Herbert’s ‘Prayer (I)’. 

5 minutes 

First Flight 

Organ 

Score 9780193551497 

Digital 9780193551503 

This inventive work, composed in 2019, owes its title to 

that year’s two great anniversaries connected to manned 

flight: the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and 

the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. 

A wide range of highly effective textures and atmospheric 

harmonies draws the player and the listener through a 

journey that eventually reaches D major for the gloriously 

affirmative ending. 

5.5 minutes 


O Antiphon Sequence 

Organ 

Score 9780193522947 

Digital 9780193544499 

In this piece, commissioned by the American Guild of 

Organists, each movement responds to liturgical text taken 

from the O Antiphons. The movements vary from lively and 

capricious to thoughtful and meditative. 

15 minutes 

Sacred and hallowed fire 

Organ 

Score 9780193394018 

Sacred and hallowed fire was commissioned by Harrison 

& Harrison as part of their 150 years celebration of organ 

building. It is one of a trilogy of works for organ by 

McDowall which draws from the poetry of George Herbert. 

6.5 minutes 

Sounding Heaven and Earth 

Organ 

Score 9780193378865 

Sounding heaven and earth is the first piece in a trilogy of 

works inspired by ‘Prayer (I)’, a sonnet by George Herbert. 

6 minutes 

Wo Gott de Herr nicht bei uns hält 

Organ 

Score 9780193386624 

The Orgelbüchlein Project is a long running project to 

complete Bach’s unfinished collection of organ music. 

McDowall has composed music for ‘ghost’ Chorale 119 

(336) BWV 258 as her contribution to completing the set. 

3 minutes 


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Becky McGlade 

- Becky McGlade - 

b. 1974 

Cornish composer Becky McGlade studied music at 

Royal Holloway, University of London, and now leads a 

busy musical life as a composer, cellist, and teacher. 

McGlade’s unique compositional style, described as 

‘beautiful’ by Gramophone magazine, is engaging 

and dynamic, with fluid vocal lines and unexpected 

harmonic twists within an immediately accessible 

sound-world. The majority of her compositions are 

choral pieces, many of which draw inspiration from 

her Christian faith. Her works include psalm settings, 

carols, and settings of other biblical and secular texts, 

as well as solo songs. Recent commissions include 

a carol for York Minster’s Service of Nine Lessons 

and Carols, and a secular work for the Eden Project, 

Cornwall. 

McGlade’s music has been performed throughout 

the UK, including by the Choir of St John’s College, 

Cambridge, the London Oriana Choir, the Choir of 

Ely Cathedral, and the BBC Symphony Chorus, and is 

recorded by Sonoro and the Choir of Truro Cathedral. 

In 2021 she signed a long-term agreement with 

Oxford University Press. 

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As the hart 


Vocal Score 9780193555518 

Digital 9780193555525 

One of McGlade’s longer settings, As the hart begins simply, 

before expanding into a more complex central section with 

fluctuating time signatures and shifting tonalities. Ideal for 

advanced mixed-voice choirs in a sacred or concert setting, 

it is a fitting alternative to Herbert Howells’s famous setting 

of Psalm 42. 

6 minutes 

Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life 


Vocal score 9780193540538 

Digital 9780193540545 

McGlade’s setting of ‘The Call’ by George Herbert is simple 

but effective, reflecting the directness of the original 

poem. The three-bar phrases create a feeling of expectancy 

throughout the verses, and are beautifully intensified 

by harmonic shifts in one verse and a soaring descant in 

another. 

3 minutes 

I saw a new heaven 


Vocal Score 9780193555532 

Digital 9780193555549 

Setting Revelation 21: 1–5, this short anthem is in 

McGlade’s typically fluid style, with harmonic twists, 

changing metres, and tempo fluctuations. With some divisi 

in the upper parts, it will be particularly welcomed by 

experienced church and cathedral singers as a new take on 

these well-known words. 

3.5 minutes 

My beloved spake 


Vocal score 9780193540590 

Digital 9780193540736 

This is a beautiful and dynamic setting of well-known 

words from the Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon). With 

a soaring soprano melody, McGlade’s fluid vocal lines drive 

harmonic twists within an immediately accessible soundworld. 

Perfect for concert performance. 

3.5 minutes 


My song is love unknown 


Vocal Score 9780193544642 

Digital 9780193544659 

My song is love unknown is an expressive and fluid setting 

of the well-known Lenten text by Samuel Crossman, 

particularly suitable for performance on Good Friday. 

McGlade highlights the phrase ‘take frail flesh and die’ 

with a sighing musical motif, before the work closes with 

the affirmation ‘heaven was his home, but mine the tomb 

where he lay’. 

3 minutes 

O Sing unto the Lord 

ATB unaccompanied 

Vocal Score 9780193551060 

Digital 9780193551107 

Scored especially for ATB to meet social distancing 

requirements, this piece has both special resonance and 

practical application in these uncertain times. McGlade's 

characteristic unaccompanied style offers flowing 

contrapuntal lines while the shifting tonalities throughout 

effectively capture both poignancy and joy. 

2.5 minutes 

Becky McGlade 

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Becky McGlade 

Choral Leaflet Secular 

Change upon change 


Vocal score 9780193555372 

Digital 9780193555389 

Setting a text by Elizabeth Barratt Browning, this 

thoughtful and evocative piece compares a dying 

relationship with the changing of the seasons from 

summer to winter, which McGlade skilfully reflects in 

her use of minor tonality, falling melodic phrases, and 

shifting chromaticism. Reminiscent of the English art song, 

this setting for upper voices and piano demonstrates 

McGlade's compositional versatility. 

3.5 minutes 

The Oak 

SATB and cello 

Vocal score 9780193555556 

Digital 9780193555563 

This simple setting of words by Tennyson reflects a 

different side to McGlade’s compositional style, without 

sacrificing any of her trademark characteristics. The largely 

homophonic vocal lines move as one, with clarity and 

poise in abundance, creating a bed of sound over which 

the cello gently glides. 

2.5 minutes 


A spotless Rose 


Vocal score 9780193535695 

Digital 9780193539631 

This setting of A spotless Rose reflects the wintry starkness 

of the fifteenth-century text through its minor key and 

bare upper-voice opening, while the warmth of the full 

voicing on the words ‘light’ and ‘might’ represents the 

coming of the Christ-Child. 

2.5 minutes 

O little town of Bethlehem 


Vocal score 9780193562370 

Digital 9780193562387 

This imaginative setting of the well-loved text O little 

town of Bethleham, by Phillips Brooks, displays McGlade’s 

characteristic rich and expressive harmonies, with their 

jazz inflections. It would be a superb choice for Christmas 

services and concerts. 

4 minutes 

See amid the winter’s snow 


Vocal score 9780193551220 

Digital 9780193551237 

This setting of Edward Caswall’s well-known text shows 

all the hallmarks of McGlade's characteristic style, with 

changing time signatures, beguiling chromaticisms, and 

a beautiful, fluid melody. Changing metres give a sense 

of fluidity, while a scintillating climax on 'Peace on earth' 

forms the centre of the work. 

4.5 minutes 

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Indigo I 


Digital † 9780193548350 

Inspired by the medieval carol Angelus ad Virginem, 

Indigo I suggests a distant time, European roots, and 

the tranquil peace of that starry night when Wisdom 

descended. 

Originally published in World Carols for Choirs. 

Vulcan 


Digital † 9780193545779 

From the collection For Him all Stars, ‘Vulcan’ is an energetic 

carol, scored for SSA and piano. The text, written by the 

composer, hails Christ as a new star emerging from the 

night. Featuring canonical voice parts and a rhythmic 

accompaniment, this piece is a rhapsodic welcome to the 

son of God. 

2 minutes 

- Jenny McLeod - 


- Selga Mence - 

Dedziet skalu, putiet guni (Bring us 

fire, bring us light) 


Digital † 9780193549005 

Selga Mence’s arrangement of this Latvian folksong 

presents the two phrases of the original song in a variety 

of textures, beginning and ending with imitations of the 

sound of bells. An English text by Bob Chilcott is presented 

alongside the original Latvian. Originally published in 

World Carols for Choirs. 

4.5 minutes 

Sudrabina lietins lija (See the silver 

rain is falling) 


Digital † 9780193547384 

The melody and text of this traditional carol were first 

collected in 1968 by the composer Peteris Plakidis, in 

Katlakalns (a district of Riga). It is here arranged for 

unaccompanied SSA voices by Selga Mence, and presented 

with an English text alongside the original Latvian. 

Originally published in World Carols for Choirs. 

2 minutes 


McLeod - Mence 

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Olson - Papadakos 

Magnificat 

- Tawnie Olson - 

SSAA & SATB (div) unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193560987 

This innovative setting of the Magnificat celebrates the 

strength of teenage girls and is suitable for both liturgical 

and concert performance. The upper-voices sing in the 

style of Bulgarian choral folk music, using a visceral sound 

that contrasts with the SATB choir. 

8.5 minutes 


- Dorothy J. Papadakos - 

Hermandad (Brotherhood) 

SATB, piano, trumpet, & percussion 

Vocal score 9780193869998 

This mariachi anthem, based on an Octavio Paz text in 

Spanish, is sure to liven any concert or school choir. The 

choral lines are presented in many textural varieties, 

including four bars of clapping ‘sombrero’ style, and the 

trumpet and piano parts are highly rhythmic, fun, and 

energetic. An English singing translation is provided. 

4 minutes 

Live in love 

SATB and percussion 


Vocal score 9780193865693 

A stirring macaronic setting of Ephesians 5:12 in Zulu, 

Xhosa, and English with African improvised drumming. The 

choral parts require many divisi, but are otherwise quite 

simple. 


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- Nina Perry - 


The Frog 

Unison and piano 

Vocal Score 9780193419650 

A simple unison song with piano accompaniment. 

2 minutes 

- Kim Porter - 

Pulchra es et decora 


Vocal score 9780193563131 

Digital 9780193563148 

A reflection on the plainchant antiphon ‘Pulchra es et 

decora’, this hauntingly beautiful piece was commissioned 

by ORA100 for Suzi Digby and ORA Singers. The original 

antiphon has been transcribed and included at the 

beginning, and may be used as an introduction. 

3.5 minutes 


Papadakos - Perry 

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Elizabeth Poston 

- Elizabeth Poston - 

Happy are thy men 


Vocal score 9780193411722 


Sing unto the Lord 


Vocal score 9780193389625 


The Princesses’ Carol 

Unison or two part voices (with optional 

instrumental descant 

Vocal score 9780193388420 


I saw a fair maiden 

Unison voices 



Vocal score 9780193395572 


The Boar’s Head Carol 


Vocal score 9780193411715 


Nativity 

Soloists, SATB & string orchestra 

Hire vocal score 9780193378407 


Soprano and alto (or counter-tenor) soloists with optional 

mezzo-soprano, tenor, and bass soloists, SATB choir, and 

strings (or organ or piano) 

Words from traditional Christmas folk-songs and ballads, 

compiled and edited by Terence Tiller. 

15 minutes 


Bonny at Morn 


Solo Voice 

Vocal score 9780193379534 


The Queen of Sheba’s song 


Vocal score 9780193514430 


The Stockdoves 


Vocal score 9780193404922 


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- Rosephanye Powell - 

Somebody’s knockin’ at yo’ do’ 

SA & piano 

Vocal score 9780193387836 

This thoughtful arrangement of the well-known spiritual 

‘Somebody’s knockin’ at yo’ do’’ was originally published as 

part of the collection Spirituals for Upper Voices. The two 

vocal lines are eminently singable, with melodic interest 

in both parts, making the arrangement ideal for both 

children’s and women’s choirs of all levels of experience. 

Containing a recognisable knocking motif, the piano part is 

expressive, harmonically interesting, and supportive. 

2.5 minutes 

Spirituals 

Rosephanye Powell 

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Sarah Quartel 

- Sarah Quartel - 

b. 1982 

Sarah Quartel is a Canadian composer, conductor, and 

educator known for her fresh and exciting approach 

to choral music. Having received her first composition 

award at the age of 8, she celebrates the musical 

potential of all learners by providing singers access to 

high quality repertoire and engaging music education. 

Quartel’s choral works are performed by children, 

youth, and adults throughout North America and 

beyond, and her curriculum texts are used to connect 

the excitement of choral festivals with meaningful 

classroom learning. 

ensemble Project Sing!; works recorded on multiple 

commercial releases; and a host of choral commissions 

and performances including those by award-winning 

Canadian conductors Zimfira Poloz and Brainerd 

Blyden-Taylor. 

Sarah became a conductor with Viva Children’s 

Choirs in 2011, and continues to work as a guest 

clinician at various music education and choral events 

throughout Canada. 

Her compositions have been featured widely by 

groups such as the National Youth Choir of Canada, 

The Nathaniel Dett Chorale, and the a cappella group 

Rajaton. Other credits include: funding from the 

Ontario Arts Council and the National Film Board of 

Canada; Composer-in-Residence for the women’s vocal 

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ed. Sarah Quartel 

Choral Collections 

Breath of Song 


Vocal score 9780193532021 

Breath of Song brings together ten exquisite works by 

contemporary women composers. Compiled and edited 

by Sarah Quartel, the collection features an eclectic mix 

of styles and colours, specially selected with modern 

concert programming in mind — from settings of hymnlike 

simplicity and a rich choral sound to works featuring 

theatrical body percussion and a fresh close-harmony style. 

Secular and sacred texts from across the centuries are given 

fresh life, and new words and sounds are introduced. 

(Collection includes SATB arrangement of Quartel’s The 

Birds’ Lullaby) 

Sarah Quartel Songbook 

Upper voices in 2-4 parts, with piano or 

unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193551053 

The Sarah Quartel Songbook brings together a selection 

of the composer’s best-loved pieces for upper voices, 

including favourites such as ‘The Birds’ Lullaby’ and ‘I 

remember’, as well as a new setting of Sara Teasdale’s lifeaffirming 

poem ‘Refuge’. This is an invaluable resource both 

for choirs looking to explore the work of this fine choral 

composer for the first time and for admirers of Quartel’s 

style hoping to find staple repertoire conveniently 

gathered together in one volume. 

Sarah Quartel Songbook 

SATB, with piano or unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193551046 

The Sarah Quartel Songbook brings together a selection 

of the composer’s best-loved pieces for mixed voices, 

including favourites such as ‘Sing, my Child’, ‘Voice on the 

Wind’, and ‘Swept Away’. This is an invaluable resource both 

for choirs looking to explore the work of this fine choral 

composer for the first time and for admirers of Quartel’s 

style hoping to find staple repertoire conveniently 

gathered together in one volume. 

Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred 

Amabile Alleluia 

SATB and children’s choir/SSATB 

unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193544086 

Digital 9780193544093 

Introduced by the children’s choir, Quartel’s simple and 

uplifting melody repeats throughout the piece, beautifully 

coloured by the surrounding parts. The voices offer joyful 

praise and the rich harmonies build up to a warm and 

rousing finish. The children’s part may also be sung by a 

congregation or divided soprano part. 

2 minutes 

Fill your hearts with joy and 

gladness 

SABar and organ or piano 

Digital † 9780193524804 

From the collection Anthems for SA and Men, ‘Fill your 

hearts with joy and gladness’ is an uplifting anthem by 

Sarah Quartel, scored for SA & men with organ/piano. With 

text by Timothy Dudley-Smith, this piece is suitable for 

performance throughout the church year. 

2.5 minutes 

God will give orders/ 

Sweet Child 

SATB or SSAA, solo cello, djembe, and piano 



SSAA Vocal score 9780193512023 


This evocative anthem, from the larger work Snow Angel, 

is a piece of two halves. Opening with a haunting cello 

line, the first section (‘God Will Give Orders’) is mystical 

and ethereal, until a vibrant figure from the djembe lifts 

the music into the second section (‘Sweet Child’), which is 

uplifting and bold in character, with a distinctly African feel 

and an effective a cappella ending. 

4 minutes 

Sarah Quartel 

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Sarah Quartel 

God with me 


Vocal score 9780193543850 

Digital 9780193543867 

This a beautiful and meditative setting of a translated 

text from Carmina Gadelica, a collection of Gaelic hymns, 

prayers, and other texts. With gentle suspensions and 

exquisite harmonies, this anthem by Quartel is warm, 

refreshing, and uplifting, perfectly demonstrating her 

signature style. 

3 minutes 

How can I keep from singing? 

SSAA or SATB or TTBB unaccompanied 





TTBB Vocal score 9780193560727 


This lively reimagining of the traditional hymn is a thrilling 

a cappella arrangement that pairs the soaring legato 

melody with a rhythmic vocal accompaniment. These 

elements capture both the gentle hope and the profound 

joy contained in the text. Also including moments of 

tenderness and reflection, the piece comes to a rousing 

close with an energy that engages both singers and 

audience. 

4 minutes 

Sanctum 


Vocal score 9780193413382 

Digital 9780193536791 

Sanctum is a captivating setting of four movements of 

the Requiem text, inspired by the landscape of the west 

coast of Canada. Each movement depicts an aspect of 

Vancouver Island (the water, mountains, wind, and sky), 

exploring landscape as a place of healing and sanctuary. 

The combined effect is both atmospheric and dramatic. 

10 minutes 


A Winter Day 

SATB (with divisions), solo cello, and piano 

Vocal score 9780193514409 

Cello part 9780193517806 

This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian 

winter, setting texts by the composer, Sara Teasdale, Lucy 

Maud Montgomery (of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ fame), and 

Melville Cane. Each movement depicts a different time of 

day, beginning with the cold darkness before dawn and 

concluding with the evening turning into dusk and then 

darkness. The music conjures up vivid images of a cold and 

crisp winter, and of swirling, dancing snowflakes. 

17 minutes 

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Choral Leaflets/Octavos Secular 

Alice 


Vocal score 9780193392236 

Digital 9780193536104 

Alice is a quirky, light-hearted celebration of the Alice books 

by Lewis Carroll. The tale of an encounter with the White 

Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and the Hatter is underpinned 

by a lively, characterful piano part. Spirited, fun, and with 

great potential for dramatic performance. 

4 minutes 

After the Rain 


Vocal score 9780193392236 

Digital 9780193564152 

Setting words by Chief Dan George, this optimistic work 

reminds us that there is still beauty to be found in times 

of trouble and that difficult days will not last forever. The 

balanced vocal lines will be enjoyed by youth and adult 

upper-voice choirs. 

3.5 minutes 

All shall be well 

SSAA, violin & piano 

Vocal score 9780193550728 

Digital 9780193551756 

This uplifting piece sets a text inspired by Julian of 

Norwich, with additions by the composer. Quartel’s 

intertwining vocal lines are beautifully combined with a 

soaring violin part and flowing piano accompaniment, 

illustrating the joy and power of song. 

4.5 minutes 

All the Way Home 

SSA or SATB and piano 


SSA Digital 9780193538696 



This piece was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies’ 

Choir and their motto ‘friendship through singing’. The 

lilting vocal lines are subtly underpinned by a delicate 

piano accompaniment, and the opening performance 

direction, ‘contentedly rocking’, describes the nature of the 

piece: peaceful, content, and easy-going. 

3.5 minutes 

As you sing 

SSAA and hand drum 

Vocal score 9780193527522 

Digital 9780193530508 

In this fast and energetic piece, Quartel sets her own 

text celebrating the joy of singing. The melody weaves 

in and out of the texture, supported by dynamic vocal 

accompaniment and rhythmically driven by the drum. 

3 minutes 

The Beat of a Different Drum 

Cambiata Bar or SA, piano, and hand drum 

CBar Vocal score 9780193417670 

CBar Digital 9780193537248 

SA Vocal score 9780193512719 

SA Digital 9780193538085 

This composition sets the composer’s own text celebrating 

freedom of expression and the music within each of us. 

Accompanied by hand drum and piano, the piece is an 

exciting and engaging sing with legato, two-part passages, 

and vocal percussion. The CBar vocal score is part of the 

Emerging Voices series. 

3 minutes 

Be like the bird 


Vocal score 9780193565890 

In Be like the bird, Quartel sets an English translation 

of a text by Victor Hugo to lyrical melodies and rising 

sequences that reflect the uplifting message of the words. 

A passage from the original French text is set to the same 

melody, before being interwoven with the English text. 

3.5 minutes 

The Bird’s Lullaby 






This a cappella setting of evocative words by E. Pauline 

Johnson is immediately appealing, with its playful 

syncopations and dancing, wordless accompaniment. 

3 minutes 

Sarah Quartel 

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Sarah Quartel 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind 

SSA or SATB and piano 


SSA Digital 9780193536777 



This atmospheric setting of familiar words from 

Shakespeare’s As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with 

singers being asked by the composer to perform with ‘a bit 

of frost and a knowing smile’. 

2.5 minutes 

Carry the music 


Vocal score 9780193546752 

Digital 9780193551299 

This uplifting and affirmatory piece sets a text by the 

composer inspired by the reflections of the Northwest 

Girlchoir on what their choir means to them. A warm 

unison first verse and chorus is next transposed into 6/8, 

taking on a dance-like feel, first in two and then three vocal 

parts, while the forward motion of the piano’s continuous 

quaver movement echoes the text’s encouragement to 

‘carry the music on’. 

4 minutes 

Grow 


Vocal score 9780193524804 

Digital 9780193538634 

Grow is a warm, heartfelt setting of words by Quartel 

celebrating a human personal growth that mirrors the 

season change from winter to spring. A rocking piano 

part underpins the eminently singable vocal lines, and a 

wordless section draws the piece to a reflective close. 

4 minutes 

Down the Silver Road 

SSAA & piano 

Vocal score 9780193562875 

Digital 9780193563254 

Down the Silver Road is a comforting and uplifting setting 

of the poem To F.W. by Edith Franklin Wyatt, which 

describes the joy of growing old with a companion. 

3.5 minutes 

Here in my Heart 


Vocal score 9780193403673 

Digital 9780193535800 

Here in my Heart is an uplifting setting of an original text by 

the composer that explores the power of the natural world 

to fill the heart with song. The evocative melody perfectly 

complements the text’s theme and uses duplets and 

syncopated rhythms to create a sense of ebb and flow. 

5 minutes 

Here on these Branches 

SSAA and percussion 

Vocal score 9780193392243 

Digital 9780193536111 

This bewitching setting tells the story of a girl walking in an 

enchanted forest, mesmerized by ancient songs sung by a 

chorus of birds. An ostinato played on finger cymbals and 

claves accompanies the voices, and Quartel sets a strong 

melody against the harmonies of the birdsong. 

4 minutes 

‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers 


Vocal score 9780193530270 

Digital 9780193538955 

This is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily 

Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a 

bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic lines, rich harmonies, 

and a fluttering accompaniment to illustrate the 

persistence of hope even through hardship. 

3.5 minutes 

I know a bank where the wild 

thyme blows 


Digital † 9780193538955 

This setting of words from A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

features all the hallmarks of Quartel’s signature style, with 

uplifting melodies and a supportive, accessible piano 

accompaniment. Originally published in the collection 

Shall I compare thee. 

3.5 minutes 

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I remember 

SA or SABar or Unison or TB and piano 


SA Digital 9780193536128 



Unison Vocal score 9780193550841 

Unison Digital 9780193550858 

TB Vocal score 9780193560734 

TB Digital 9780193560888 

I remember reflects on the wonder of the natural world and 

the people who shape our lives. The stirring melody calls 

to mind the folksong tradition, and is underpinned by a 

gently flowing piano accompaniment. 

3.5 minutes 

The Island Itself 


Vocal score 9780193550988 

Digital 9780193563186 

The Island Itself is a setting of the poem Homage to 

Omey by Irish poet, Joan McBreen. The imagery of the 

sea conveyed in the text is reflected through lilting, 

syncopated rhythms. The melody is supported by a bed of 

ostinati sung with vocables. 

3.5 minutes 

I will be with you 






I will be with you sets a reflective text by the composer 

with a message of enduring solace. Lush harmonies, with 

predominantly homophonic passagework, coupled with 

flowing and cascading lines in every voice part make for a 

tranquil musical experience. 

3 minutes 

In time of silver rain 

SA or SABar or Unison or TB and piano 


SA Digital 9780193531314 



Unison Vocal score 9780193550865 

Unison Digital 9780193550872 

TB Vocal score 9780193560741 

TB Digital 9780193560895 

Commissioned by the Treble Makers Women’s Choir, this 

secular work sensitively sets Langston Hughes’s poem 

of the same name. A lilting melodic line, eloquent partwriting, 

and an effective piano part combine to create a 

piece that will appeal to both youth and adult choirs. 

2.5 minutes 

Morning Light 


Vocal score 9780193404755 

Digital 9780193535961 

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer 

about home and finding your way. Inspired by American 

folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies 

perfectly complement the uplifting theme of the text. 

4.5 minutes 

My soul is awakened 


Vocal score 9780193530294 

Digital 9780193540576 

This is a beautiful piece setting an evocative text by 

Anne Brontë that explores natural imagery on a blustery 

day and the feelings they inspire. Supported by the 

piano acccompaniment, Quartel’s soaring melodies, rich 

harmonies, and syncopated rhythms illustrate the power 

of the wind, while its unpredictable nature is hinted by the 

hemiolas and cross-rhythms throughout the texture. 

4.5 minutes 

One of these Days 

SSATBarB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193554498 

Digital 9780193554504 

Setting words by the composer, One of these days is 

an affirmatory piece with pop-inspired rhythms and 

harmonies. The scat syllables and repeating patterns of the 

lower parts provide a rich cushion for the lilting melody of 

the soprano lines, with lyrics that encourage us to seize the 

day! 

4 minutes 

Sarah Quartel 

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Sarah Quartel 

The Parting Glass 

TTBB or SATB or SABar unaccompanied 







The Parting Glass is a traditional Scottish song, often sung 

as a farewell at the end of a get-together. Sarah Quartel’s 

arrangement features close harmonies, idiomatic Scotch 

snap rhythms, and effective interjectory moments in 

what is a largely homophonic setting. With its valedictory 

message, it would make a fitting end to a performance, 

perhaps as an encore item. 

3 minutes 

Peace 

SATB (div) & piano 

Vocal score 9780193560376 

Digital 9780193560772 

Marked ‘light and flowing’, Quartel’s setting of Sara 

Teasdale’s poem ‘Peace’ features slow, sustained vocal 

writing over a piano part with continual moving quavers. 

The harmonic palette is rich and warm, and soaring 

soprano lines conjure Teasdale’s vivid celestial imagery. 

4 minutes 

Refuge 

SSAA & piano 

Vocal score 9780193552272 

Digital 9780193552289 

Refuge sets a powerful Sara Teasdale poem by the same 

name, which perfectly captures the healing power of 

singing: ‘For with my singing I can make a refuge for my 

spirit’s sake, A house of shining words, to be my fragile 

immortality’. Quartel uses musical structure to complement 

the poem’s narrative, opening and closing with music 

marked ‘resilient and strong’, with a central section that is 

‘warm and hopeful’, as expressed by rich harmonies and 

soaring melodic lines. 

3.5 minutes 

Ripple Effect 

SATB (with SAT semi-chorus) & cello 

Vocal score 9780193562981 

Digital 9780193562998 

Quartel has chosen a powerful combination of texts by 

Hildegard von Bingen and Mother Teresa for this emotive 

choral work. The main choir is accompanied by a small 

ensemble singing the word ‘love’ with rippling ostinati and 

a solo cello contributing lyrical melodic lines and broken 

chords. 

5.5 minutes 

See the Light 


Vocal score 9780193531123 

Digital 9780193531130 

See the light sets a text by the composer inspired by 

the Hawaiian story ‘The Bowl of Light’. With its uplifting 

melodies and energetic rhythms, this accessible piece 

explores the light in each person and creates a sense of 

community. 

4 minutes 

Sing, my Child 

SATB or SSAA or TTBB and hand drum 







Sing, my Child sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty 

found all around us. Tight harmonies and a dynamic 

percussion line drive the opening 7/8 metre. Lush 

harmonies colour the hymn-like B section. This piece is 

well-suited for combined choir projects or as a rousing and 

meaningful close to a concert. 

4.5 minutes 

Sister Song 


Vocal score 9780193392342 

Digital 9780193536661 

This is a gentle setting of an optimistic text about joy and 

hope and the expression of these through song. Sister Song 

features delicate piano ostinatos, persuasive melodies, 

close harmonies, and contrasts between unison and 

imitative writing. 

4.5 minutes 

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Songbird 


Vocal score 9780193392304 

Digital 9780193525016 

Songbird sets an evocative text describing songbirds that 

spin tunes of gold. The catchy, colourful melody is first 

presented by tutti voices, and is then woven through the 

vocal parts, often to wordless accompaniment. The setting 

ends with an effective passage of close imitation. 

2.5 minutes 

Swept Away 

SSATBarB unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193531789 

Digital 9780193531796 

Setting words by the composer, Swept Away is a beautiful 

and haunting piece with pop-inspired rhythms and 

harmonies. The scat syllables of the insistent lower parts 

are combined with a flowing melody in the soprano line 

to create a powerful work exploring the journey of the 

singers and the ability of the wind to carry them to their 

destination. 

4 minutes 

There alway something sings 

SATB or Two-part (or unison) and piano 



Two-part Vocal score 9780193543812 

Two-part Vocal score 9780193543829 

This beautiful setting of a text by Ralph Waldo Emerson 

celebrates the universal presence of song, which 

can be found in places of beauty but also darkness. 

With memorable melodies and a flowing supportive 

accompaniment, this piece will leave a warm feeling in 

both the singers and listeners alike. 

3 minutes 

This we know 


Vocal score 9780193527591 

Digital 9780193530522 

Setting a moving text inspired by Chief Seattle, Quartel 

appeals for better stewardship of the planet through 

gentle flowing lines and expansive textures. The melodies 

are accessible throughout and well supported by the piano 

accompaniment, while the swells and falls in dynamics 

offer a sense of organicity. 

3 minutes 

Voice on the Wind 

SSAA or SATB and hand drum 





Voice on the Wind sets an inspiring text, written by the 

composer, about the empowerment of singing. With a 

catchy melody, imitative wordless singing, and a driving 

hand drum accompaniment, this piece has all the 

hallmarks of Quartel’s innovative style. 

4 minutes 

Wide Open Spaces 

SATB or TTBB or SSAA and piano 







Commissioned for the 2015 National Conference of the 

American Choral Directors Association, Wide Open Spaces 

reflects on the journeys and adventures to be found in 

the wide open spaces within ourselves and in the world 

around us. 

3 minutes 

A Winter Day 

SSAA, piano, & cello 

Vocal score 9780193550735 

Digital 9780193550742 

Cello Part 9780193517806 

This bright, sparkling celebration of nature is inspired 

by the snowy and icy winters of the composer’s native 

Canada. The text, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, is brought to 

life through vibrant melodies, a rippling piano part, and a 

rich, poignant line for solo cello. 

This piece was originally published in a version for SATB, 

solo cello, and piano as part of the five-movement work A 

Winter Day. 

3 minutes 

Sarah Quartel 

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Sarah Quartel 

Snow Angel 

SATB or SSAA, solo cello, djembe, and piano 



Cello part 9780193514515 

Snow Angel is an evocative five-movement choral work, 

for either SATB or SSAA choir, that explores themes of 

love, rebirth, and beauty through the eyes of children 

and the heavenly army of angels that watch over them, 

yearning to make a difference to their lives. The work 

may be performed with narration, in which three angels 

present their perspectives on their earthly charges. Quartel 

weaves a haunting and poignant cello line throughout the 

work, with a vibrant part for djembe in movement four. 

The musical language is emotive and pictorial, allowing 

performers to play an active role in the storytelling. 

20 minutes 

Choral Works Christmas 

Choral Leaflets/Octavos Christmas 

On this Silent Night 

SATB & piano 

Vocal score 9780193562394 

Digital 9780193562400 

Sarah Quartel’s On this Silent Night perfectly conveys 

the magic and excitement of winter, conjuring images of 

warmth by the fireside while the weather outside closes 

in. It would be a compelling secular contribution to any 

winter concert. 

3 minutes 

Silent Night 

Soprano duet and SATB (with divisions) 

unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193526433 

Digital 9780193538764 

In this beautiful, atmospheric arrangement of Franz 

Gruber’s ‘Silent night’, Sarah Quartel employs choral divisi 

and unexpected harmonies to create a lush bed of sound 

over which the soprano duet soars. 

3 minutes 

This endris night 

SSAA or SATB or TTBB unaccompanied or with 

handbells/percussion/organ 







Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenthcentury 

text in this carol for upper voices. The dialogue 

between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling 

folk-like melody, in 6/8 metre, through each of the voice 

parts, with each verse ending in the lilting refrain ‘Lully, by 

by, lullay’. 

3 minutes 

78 

Wexford Carol 


Vocal score 9780193551244 

Digital 9780193551251 

Quartel’s arrangement of this well-known Irish carol is 

distinctly refreshing, characterized in part by its charming 

and sparkling piano part. The middle section offers 

an opportunity for both the choir and pianist to shine 

individually, and explores further the beautiful modal 

harmonies of the original melody. 

4 minutes

Solo Voice 

All the Way Home 




This work was inspired by the Radcliffe Ladies’ Choir and 

their motto: “Friendship through singing.” The lilting vocal 

lines are underpinned by a delicate piano part, and the 

opening performance direction “contentedly rocking” 

describes the overall nature of the piece: easygoing, 

peaceful, and content. Popular as an SSA and SATB choral 

piece, it has now been skillfully adapted as a vocal solo 

with piano accompaniment for high or low voice. 

3.5 minutes 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind 




This atmospheric setting of words from Shakespeare’s As 

You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with the singer being 

asked to perform with “a bit of frost and a knowing smile.” 

Musically it includes mixed meters and great voice leading. 

This unique and meaningful winter feature for SSA and 

SATB choirs has now been skillfully adapted as a vocal solo 

with piano accompaniment for high or low voice. 

2.5 minutes 

I remember 




Here is a lyric beauty with lovely legato lines, a gorgeous 

piano part, and a picturesque text. “In my song there’s a 

race through a wild green meadow, the sunshine so bright 

in my eyes...” Popular as an SSA and SATB choral piece, it 

has now been skillfully adapted as a vocal solo with piano 

accompaniment for high or low voice. 

3.5 minutes 

In Time of Silver Rain 




Quartel’s lyrical setting of a Langston Hughes poem has 

a lilting melodic line and an effective piano part. Popular 

as an SSA and SATB choral piece, it has now been skillfully 

adapted as a vocal solo with piano accompaniment for 

high or low voice. 

2.5 minutes 

Lux Aeterna 




Taken from Sanctum, a setting of the Requiem text for 

upper voices, Lux aeterna features a simple and gentle 

melody supported by a new piano part in this arrangement 

for high or low solo voice with piano accompaniment. 

2 minutes 

Snow Angel 




With words by the composer, this mesmerising piece 

comes from the large-scale work, Snow Angel, and 

celebrates the coming of winter and the everlasting nature 

of music. Includes an optional cello part. Also published in 

Oxford Solo Songs: Christmas. 

3 minutes 

This endris night 




Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenthcentury 

text in this enchanting carol. Also published in 

Oxford Solo Songs: Christmas. 

3 minutes 

Sarah Quartel 

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Ramsey - Regan 

Over hill, over dale 


Vocal score 9780193413047 

Digital 9780193531208 

In this charming piece, Ramsey’s characterization of the 

fairy’s monologue from Act 2, Scene 1 of A Midsummer 

Night’s Dream is both fun and imaginative. The rhythmic 

fluidity, driving piano part, and clever accentuation 

perfectly complement Shakespeare’s metre and rhyme 

scheme and bring the text to life. ‘Over hill, over dale’ was 

originally published in the collection Hark, hark, the lark. 

3 minutes 

- Andrea Ramsey - 


Ya Basta! 


Vocal score 9780193415485 

Digital 9780193563704 

‘Ya basta!’ is a Spanish saying that roughly translates to 

‘Enough is enough!’. The song has an exuberant, carefree 

energy, expressing the freedom to walk wherever you 

choose and to make your own path. Ya Basta! is easy to 

teach and learn; the score includes tips on pronunciation 

and improvisation at the break section. 

3 minutes 

- Val Regan - 


80

- Earlene Rentz - 

by William H. Monk arr. Rentz 

Abide with me 


Vocal score 9780193863613 

3 minutes 

In the Garden 


Vocal score 9780193863606 

A lilting reflection on Mary Magdalene’s encounter with the 

risen Christ. 

3.5 minutes 

Just as I am 


Vocal score 9780193863613 

3 minutes 

Sweet hour of prayer 



Vocal score 9780193862890 


Dear Companion 


Vocal score 9780193863897 


Simple Gifts 

2-part trebles and piano 

Vocal score 9780193863903 

The well-known Shaker tune in an arrangement which 

brings out the tune’s original sweetness and joy. It is useful 

as an easy anthem or as a light concert piece, and may be 

sung by children or by adults. 

2 minutes 

The last rose of summer 

SSA, flute, and piano 

Vocal score 9780193867390 

Written for the Women’s Chorale of Colquitt County 

High School, Moultrie, Georgia, this Irish air is scored 

for upper voices, with a gently flowing flute and piano 

accompaniment. 

3 minutes 

Good King Wenceslas 

Unison & piano 

Vocal score 9780193862883 

A lively and enjoyable setting of the familiar carol for 

unison voices and piano. The vocal line is a free adaptation 

of the well-known tune, and the piano accompaniment is 

energetic and syncopated. 

2 minutes 

Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming 

SATB or SA and piano 


SA vocal score 9780193868908 

3 minutes 



Earlene Rentz 

81

Robles - Rooney 

- Zanaida Steward Robles - 


Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 

SATB with organ & piano or organ 

Piano & organ vocal score 9780193563292 

Piano & organ digital 9780193565166 

Organ only vocal score 9780193565074 

Organ only digital 9780193565081 

his is a substantial setting of the canticles of Mary and 

Simeon, suitable for use in both concert and liturgical 

settings. Notably, the choir is accompanied by piano and 

organ, a combination that reflects the Black American 

church in which the composer grew up and that creates 

a unique timbral effect. he choral writing features fugal 

counterpoint and a chromatic soundworld rooted around 

the octatonic scale. The text is in English throughout, with 

occasional Latin interjections in the Magnificat. 

10 minutes 

- Annabel Rooney - 

b. 1973 

Annabel McLauchlan Rooney read music at Christ’s 

College, Cambridge, holding a university 

instrumental award on the cello. She continued 

her studies in Cambridge with an MPhil and a PhD 

on eighteenth-century opera. Rooney started 

composing seriously in 2011, predominantly 

writing choral music, and now combines this with 

performance and instrumental teaching. Her music 

has been performed by renowned ensembles, 

including the Choirs of the Chapel Royal, and 

Exeter and Ely Cathedrals, and broadcast on Radio 

3. In 2019, the Choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge 

released an album of Rooney’s sacred choral music, 

As a seed bursts forth. 


Round me falls the night 


Vocal score 9780193544123 

Digital 9780193544130 

William Romanis’s hymn text is brought to life in this 

enchanting anthem with unexpected harmonic shifts 

and fluctuating time signatures. Rooney glides gracefully 

between tonal centres, creating a beautiful, ethereal 

atmosphere. Also published in Breath of Song. 

3 minutes 


Gaudete! 


Vocal score 9780193551732 

Digital 9780193551749 

This is an upbeat original setting of the well-known 

Latin text. Rambunctious, hearty, and in a sophisticated 

modal style, it is suitable for both church and concert 

performance by experienced choirs. 

2 minutes 

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The Lamb 

- Debra Scroggins - 


Vocal score 9780193805217 

Debra Scroggins’ setting of a poem by William Blake is both 

stunning and gentle. The tight harmonies offer a lush and 

flowing soundscape that conveys warmth and tenderness 

perfectly suited to the text, ‘Little lamb, dost thou know 

who made thee?’. The choral lines are accessible yet 

sophisticated, and the work is suitable for performance in 

churches and schools. 

2.5 minutes 

Out of the depths 


Vocal score 9780193805200 

Out of the depths is a reflective, homophonic, and 

beautifully written work. The choral parts are very 

accessible, yet the resulting sound is rather sophisticated 

and thoughtful. This setting of Psalm 130 is suitable 

throughout the liturgical year, but would be particularly 

effective during Lent and other reflective occasions. 

2.5 minutes 


Debra Scroggins 

A Dream Within a Dream 

SATB with divisions and piano 

Vocal score 9780193805224 

This secular text, written by Edgar Allen Poe, is fanciful, 

calling into question whether reality is a dream, or even a 

dream within a dream. The music is lush and has a subtle 

hint of popular harmonies alongside well-written choral 

lines and an accessible piano part. 

3.5 minutes 


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Martha Shaffer 

Come Trav’ler, Haste Away 


Vocal score 9780193863897 

The third piece from Five Hymns from ‘The Sacred Harp’. 


How Firm A Foundation 


Vocal score 9780193865358 

The fifth and final piece from Five Hymns from ‘The Sacred 

Harp’. 


I Would See Jesus 


Vocal score 9780193865341 

The fourth piece from Five Hymns from ‘The Sacred Harp’. 


King of Peace 


Vocal score 9780193865327 

An easy hymn arrangement for SATB unaccompanied choir, 

King of Peace is the second of Five Hymns from ‘The Sacred 

Harp’ 

1 minutes 

Sweet Canaan 


- Martha Shaffer - 


Vocal score 9780193865310 

The first piece from Five Hymns from ‘The Sacred Harp’. 



If ye would hear the angels sing 


Vocal score 9780193862364 

An old Dutch carol for SATB unaccompanied. 

2 minutes 

84

- Joan Szymko - 

b. 1957 

Joan Szymko’s music is regularly performed across 

North America and abroad, including at national 

and international festivals and competitions. She 

has been commissioned by all manner of choral 

ensemble—professional, community, academic, and 

children’s—and has a catalogue of over a hundred 

published works. An experienced choral director 

and clinician, Szymko demonstrates a passion for 

the art of singing, a dedication to storytelling, and 

an insistence on quality texts, and this is reflected in 

diverse, distinctive compositions, with a fresh and 

engaging sound. 

Joan Szymko 


Wake, Love, Wake! 


Vocal score 9780193540798 

Digital 9780193540804 

Setting a beautiful text by Rabindranath Tagore, Wake, love, 

wake! explores evocative imagery and metaphors through 

sonorous harmonies and freedom in tempo. The resulting 

piece is romantic, stirring, and atmospheric—perfect for 

concert performance. Also published in Breath of Song. 

3 minutes 

85

Hilary Tann 

- Hilary Tann - 

1947 - 2023 

After growing up in the coal-mining valleys of South 

Wales, Hilary Tann (1947-2023) spent much of her 

career in the United States, living in the foothills 

of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York 

where she chaired the Music Department and was 

the John Howard Payne Professor at Union College, 

Schenectady. 

She held many significant composer residencies 

throughout her career, including those at the 2011 

Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival, 

2013 Women Composers Festival of Hartford, and 

2015 Welsh Music Centre (Tŷ Cerdd). Numerous 

organizations have supported her work, including the 

Arts Council of Wales, New York State Council on the 

Arts, Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, 

Vaughan Williams Trust, Holst Foundation, National 

Endowment for the Arts, and Meet the Composer / 

Arts Endowment Commissioning Music USA. 

Praised for its lyricism (‘beautiful, lyrical work’ – 

Classical Music Web) and formal balance (‘In the formal 

balance of this music, there is great beauty …’ – Welsh 

Music), her compositional style was influenced by a 

strong identification with the natural world. These 

two interests combined in her enjoyment of haiku (as 

a published haiku poet) and in text selections from 

Welsh poets. A deep interest in the traditional music of 

Japan led her to private study of the shakuhachi and 

guest visits to Japan, Korea, and China. Her music has 

been widely performed and recorded by ensembles 

such as the European Women’s Orchestra, Tenebrae, 

Lontano, Marsyas Trio, Thai Philharmonic Orchestra, 

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra 

of Wales, and KBS Philharmonic in Seoul, South Korea. 

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The Cresset Stone 

Violin or viola 

Solo viola 9780193863545 

Solo violin 9780193859548 

The work is in one movement and is inspired by the 

interplay of stone and light in the ancient cathedral of 

Brecon, Wales and begins and ends in stillness. The inner 

sections contain references to the final Kyrie of an 11thcentury 

Gregorian chant. 

9 minutes 

Doppelgänger 

Piano 

Score 9780193858473 

During the piece a formal, bravura character gradually 

dissolves into its more lyrical counterpart. A recording 

can by pianist Pola Baytelman can by found on Capstone 

Records (CPS 8606 CD). 

5.5 minutes 

Embertides 

Organ 

Score 9780193399013 

This four-movement suite for organ is based on the 

divisions of the church year, and references plainsong and 

other hymns relevant to the seasons. Drawing on a wide 

range of colours and textures, the composer creates an 

evocative and varied suite of pieces, perfectly suited for 

both recital and church performance. 

15 minutes 

First Watch 

Carillon 

Score 9780193866379 

First Watch was composed for a four-octave concert 

carillon which consists of forty-nine bells. It takes as its 

inspiration the bell tower of the Albany City Hall carillon 

which overlooks the Hudson River in New York. It is the 

overwhelming sense of Albany as a canal-, river-, and sea 

port which inspired the composition. 

7 minutes 

Like lightnings 

Oboe 

Score 9780193868526 

The title is taken from the poem ‘Spring’ by Gerard Manley 

Hopkins. Subtitled ‘Pastoral’, the piece moves from 

birdsong, to song, and back to birdsong. 

6 minutes 

Hilary Tann 

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Hilary Tann 

Look little low heavens 

Trumpet 

Score 9780193859319 

The piece follows the arch-like shape suggested by ‘low 

heavens’ as two flanking, meditative sections surround a 

central, soaring fanfare. 

7 minutes 

Pinnae Ventorum 

Organ 

Score 9780193868533 

The inspiration for this joyous organ piece is the Vulgate 

phrase “Qui ambulas super pinnas ventorum” translated 

as “who walketh upon the wings of the wind” (Psalm 

104:3). The “wings of the wind” is a phrase of praise which 

suggests other abstract methods of praise which occur in 

the piece-bells and hymns. 

4.5 minutes 

Seven Poems of Stillness 

Cello and optional narrator 

Score 9780193408418 

This continuous cycle (c.16 minutes without narrator, 

c.24 with narrator) intersperses seven poems by R. S. 

Thomas with seven movements for solo cello. The music is 

evocative, moving, and thoughtfully sets the mood for the 

poem that it precedes. A recording of this work, performed 

by the cellist Guy Johnson, is available from Tŷ Cerrd 

(TCR011). 

16/24 minutes 

Windhover 

Soprano saxophone or flute 

Score 9780193858701 

Windhover is based on the idea of flight from a falcon’s 

point of view. Sections of slow soaring, where strength and 

detailed focus predominate, alternate with swifter sections, 

where the blurring rush of flight takes over. 

8 minutes 

Duo 

Duos, Trios, and Ensemble 

Oboe and viola 

Score 9780193858480 

Duo is a forum for a dialogue between the similar timbres 

of the viola and the oboe. The instrumental lines are not set 

in contrast to each other; rather, they intertwine. 

10 minutes 

From the Song of Amergin 

Flute, viola, and harp 

Score 9780193861077 

Three lines from Robert Graves’ restoration of the text from 

an ancient Celtic calendar-alphabet, the Song of Amergin, 

directly inspired this piece, which is in five sections. 

10.5 minutes 

The Gardens of Anna Maria Luisa 

de Medici 

Flute, cello, and piano 

Score 9780193868564 

This trio is inspired by the last of the Medicis, the 

remarkable Anna Maria Luisa (1667-1743), who left Italy 

for Germany for twenty-six years while married to Johann 

Wilhelm of Saxony. Just one facet of her colourful life 

influences the composition: each of the three movements 

reveals her love of nature under cultivation. 

13 minutes 

Llef 

Flute and cello 

Score 9780193859586 

Llef recalls the rain-swept stone walls of the Welsh 

countryside, where echoes of the old hymns may still be 

heard. 

7 minutes 

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Nothing Forgotten 

Violin, cello, and piano 

Score 9780193861510 

This work is made up of three interlinked movements, 

played without a break, and includes references to two 

traditional Adirondack songs. 

10 minutes 

Of Erthe and Air 

Flute or piccolo, clarinet or bass clarinet, and 

percussion (frame drums) 

OR flute or piccolo, soprano saxophone/alto/ 

baritone saxophone, and percussion (frame drums) 

Clarinet version 9780193858848 

Saxophone version 9780193404885 

Of Erthe and Air was composed in response to a phrase 

from the poem ‘For this World Fareth as a Fantasye’ by John 

Trevisa (d.1402) while the composer was in Japan. 

15 minutes 

Water’s Edge 

Piano duet 

Score 9780193859494 

This is a piano duet for advanced students. The three 

movements may be performed together or separately. The 

‘edge’ of the title refers to the upper surface of the water as 

it reflects or refracts light. 

9 minutes 

Winter Sun, Summer Rain 

Flute, clarinet, viola, cello, and celeste 


Three interlinked descriptive movements. 

12 minutes 

Hilary Tann 

Some of the Silence 

Saxophone quartet 

Score 9780193376922 

A slow movement which explores the beautiful sonorities 

of saxophones played softly. 

9 minutes 

The Walls of Morlais Castle 

Oboe, viola, and cello 

Score 9780193863583 

A powerful, dramatic, and colourful concert piece, which is 

also suitable for more advanced young players. 

10 minutes 

Water’s Edge 


Hire score and parts - string orchestra 9780193859784 

The ‘edge’ of the title refers to the upper surface of the 

water as it reflects or refracts light. 

9 minutes 

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Hilary Tann 

Adirondack Light 

Small Orchestra 

Narrator and chamber orchestra 


Composed for the commemoration of the centennial of the 

Adirondack Park, Adirondack Light contains ‘windows’ into 

four Adidonack folksongs, with strong images of water and 

travel. The text is adapted from the poem, ‘A Lesson from 

the Hudson River School: Glens Falls, New York, 1848’ by 

Jordan Smith. 

19 minutes 

Anecdote 

Cello and orchestra 

Full Orchestra 


A soliloquy for cello and full orchestra, Tann was initially 

influenced by the poem Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace 

Stevens. The cello is ‘surrounded and complemented by the 

various orchestral textures (especially those of the central 

string quartet).’ 

as ferns 



Written for the Orchestra of Princeton University, this is an 

evocative, slow movement for string orchestra. 

9 minutes 

Toward Dusk 

Piccolo, flute and string orchestra 


Toward Dusk is an arrangement of the last movement of 

Tann’s Water’s Edge (for piano duet). Echoes of the material 

of the other two movements are heard during the piece. 

4 minutes 

With the heather and small 

birds 



A celebratory overture for chamber orchestra influenced 

by the high plateau of central Wales. The piece takes its title 

from a translation of a poem by Welsh bard, John Ceiriog 

Hughes (1833-1897) ‘efo’r grug a’r adar man’. 

10 minutes 

14 minutes 

Fanfare for a River 



A fanfare for orchestra, featuring brass played from a 

balcony. 

4 minutes 

From Afar 



From Afar refers to Tann’s memory of four months spent 

studying Japanese music in Kyoto in 1990. Propulsive 

rhythms in the percussion juxtapose with a meditative 

section. 

20 minutes 

From the Feather to the 

Mountain 



‘Walking’ passages (with hints of New York folksongs) link 

the three main sections: ‘Cloudscape’, ‘Landscape’, and 

‘Mountainscape’ in this through-composed piece. 

13 minutes 

90

The Grey Tide and the Green 


Hire score and parts 

Recalling the lichen-covered, low stone walls in Tann’s 

childhood home in Ferndale, Wales, this work is also 

influenced by R.S. Thomas’ short poem ‘Boundaries’. 

11 minutes 

Here, the Cliffs 

Violin and orchestra 


Hilary Tann was inspired to write Here, The Cliffs by Craig 

Cerrig-gleisiad, a striking rock formation near her home in 

South Wales. The single movement is in a Vivace-Adagio- 

Vivace structure, reflecting sunlight and mists. 

16 minutes 

Sarsen 



Sarsen, in three movements, was inspired by particular 

standing stones or ‘sarsens’, moving from natural 

wilderness, (Adirondack Mountains, New York) to stylized 

formality (Rock in the Garden of the Master of the Nets in 

Suzhou, China), and finally, ceremonial (Avebury, UK). Each 

of the movements may also be performed separately. 

11 minutes 

Through Echoing Timber 



A celebratory fanfare-overture, the title is taken from 

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem, ‘Spring’. This short, dramatic 

piece features a prominent part for brass. 

4 minutes 

Hilary Tann 

In the First, Spinning Place 

Alto saxophone and piano/full orchestra/wind 

orchestra 

Alto saxophone and piano 9780193369108 

Hire score and parts - full orchestra 9780193863057 

Hire score and parts - wind orchestra 9780193409590 

In the First, Spinning Place was inspired by Dylan Thomas’s 

exuberant poem ‘Fern Hill’. The first section of the concerto 

is a light, dancing movement, the second section contains 

echoes of Welsh hymnody, and the third section is a fast, 

scherzando finale. 

12 minutes 

The Open Field (In memoriam 

Tiananmen Square) 



A strong feature of this work is the celebratory fanfare, but 

while writing this Tann heard of the events of Tiananmen 

Square in June 1989 and changed the nature of the piece 

to something darker and more reflective. 

11 minutes 

91

Hilary Tann 

Solo Voice and Vocal Duet 

Arachne 

Soprano and percussion 

Score 9780193863514 

A dramatic song cycle for soprano solo in four movements. 

The accompaniment is for crotale (or any other suitable 

percussion instrument), and the performer can add stage 

movement, costume, and lighting to create theatrical 

effect. 

12 minutes 

A girl’s song to her mother 

Voice and oboe (or other melody instrument) 

Score 9780193863521 

A tender, deeply touching extended song which is within 

the scope of students, A girl’s song to her mother is a 

companion piece to Wings of the Grasses. Each piece recalls 

the open, high moorland of South Wales. In A girl’s song to 

her mother the voice is a younger person comforting an 

older one. In Wings of the Grasses the voice changes from 

that of a child to that of a reflective adult. 

6 minutes 

The Moor 

Soprano and mezzo-soprano 

Score 9780193861503 

This unaccompanied duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano 

conflates R. S. Thomas’ beautiful poem on the sacred 

quality of moorland with passages from three different 

Psalms and a line from the hymn ‘Rheidol’. This is both a 

fine concert piece and an imaginative, compelling anthemsubstitute 

whose technical demands are well within reach 

of most female soloists. 

5 minutes 

Mother and Son 

Soprano, E flat clarinet, violin, viola, and cello 

Score 9780193860575 

This short ensemble piece is a moving setting of a poem by 

R.S. Thomas depicting a son begging his mother to let him 

go and experience life in its fullness. The accompaniment is 

suitable either for clarinet with viola and cello, or for string 

trio. 

3 minutes 

Songs of the Cotton Grass 

Soprano and oboe 

Score 9780193364547 

Four songs set to texts by the Welsh poet Menna Elfyn, 

Songs of the Cotton Grass are in turn tender, reflective, 

lively, and full of the imagery of landscapes ranging from 

the open, high moorland of South Wales to the cotton 

plantations of the USA’s deep South. 

20 minutes 

Wings of the Grasses 

Voice and oboe 

Score 9780193867772 

Wings of the Grasses was composed as a companion piece 

to A girl’s song to her mother. Each piece recalls the open, 

high moorland of South Wales. In A girl’s song to her mother 

the voice is a younger person comforting an older one. In 

Wings of the Grasses the voice changes from that of a child 

to that of a reflective adult. 

3.5 minutes 

92

Psalm 104 (Praise, my soul) 

SATB, 2 trumpets, and organ or chamber orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193862395 

Trumpet parts 9780193862401 


An anthem whose trumpet fanfare and joyful character 

contributes to a festive feel. Singing Welsh translations are 

also provided in certain sections. 

7 minutes 

Psalm 136 (Luminaria magna) 


Vocal score 9780193866881 

An anthem of praise suitable for amateur church choirs. 

Tann’s setting features interesting textures, long melodic 

vocal lines, and an energetic organ part. 

8 minutes 


The Moor 

Two-part treble chorus 

Vocal score 9780193861503 

This unaccompanied duet for soprano and mezzo conflates 

R. S. Thomas’ beautiful poem on the sacred quality of 

moorland with passages from three different Psalms and 

a line from the hymn ‘Rheidol’. This is both a fine concert 

piece and an imaginative, compelling anthem-substitute 

whose technical demands are well within reach of most 

female soloists. 

5 minutes 

Sound Dawn 

TTBarBarBB and piano 

Vocal score 9780193858589 


Wales, Our Land (Cymru, 

ein gwlad) 

SATB, flute, & optional piano 

Vocal score 9780193867451 

This lilting, beautiful choral work sets text by an unknown 

WelshAmerican slate quarryman which speaks of the poet’s 

love of his country of origin, perhaps, even, his longing 

to return. It is this sense of longing for the homeland (in 

Welsh, hiraeth) which infuses the composition. 

4 minutes 


Hilary Tann 

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Phyllis Tate 

- Phyllis Tate - 

1911 - 1987 

Phyllis Tate was one of the most prominent and highly 

respected British composers of the second half of the 

twentieth century. Her music was widely performed 

during her lifetime and received great critical acclaim. 

Preferring the more intimate musical forms and 

combinations to larger orchestral media, many of her 

most distinguished contributions to modern English 

music were for chamber ensemble or for solo voice or 

voices with small groups of instruments. 

Tate’s interest in musical textures led to the use of 

unusual instrumental combinations using instruments 

such as the celeste, the harmonica, the lute, the bass 

clarinet, the accordion, and the saxophone. These 

instruments were often used alongside the human 

voice. 

Tate’s musical output was extensive and varied, 

ranging from concertos to music for schools and 

from duets to operas. She also collaborated with 

several outstanding artists of the time such as Charles 

Causley, author Michael Morpurgo, performers Cleo 

Laine and John Dankworth, cellist William Pleeth, and 

saxophonist John Harle. 

94

Duos, Trios, and Ensemble 

Air and Variations 

Violin, Clarinet in A and Piano 

Socre and parts* 9780193590014 

In this six-movement piece, the Air is followed by five 

variations: 1. ‘Aubade’ (a morning song), 2. ‘Tempo di Valse’ 

(a waltz, clarinet and piano), 3. ‘Serenade’ (violin and piano), 

4.’Tarantella’ (an Italian folk dance, violin and clarinet) 

and 5. ‘Fugal March’ (finale). The composition explores 

combinations of sound and texture - in fact three of the 

variations omit one instrument to fully exploit possibilities 

inherent in a particular pairing. 

*Available from archive 

14 minutes 

Apparitions 

Tenor, harmonica, string quartet, and piano 


Vocal score* 9780193458222 

Apparitions is a ghostly ballad sequence of four traditional 

songs, ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’, ‘The Suffolk Miracle’, ‘The 

Unquiet Grave’, ‘Unfortunate Miss Bailey’, book-ended 

by the instrumental ‘Evocation’ and ‘Envoi’. Tate uses the 

unusual combination of instruments to great effect, 

especially in the sparsely scored second movement where 

the tune passes between the tenor and harmonica. 

*Vocal score available to purchase from Banks Music 

Publications 

20 minutes 

The Lady of Shalott 

Tenor, viola, percussion (2 or 3 players), 2 pianos, 

and celesta 


Written to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the BBC’s 

Third Programme, this four-movement cantata is based on 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem of the same name. 

25 minutes 

Nocturne 

Soprano, tenor, baritone, and bass soloists, string 

quartet, double bass, bass clarinet, and celesta 


In Nocturne (1946), Tate imaginatively sets a poem by 

Sidney Keyes (1922-43) which he wrote when he was just 

17, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. 

25 minutes 

The Rainbow and the Cuckoo 

Oboe, violin, viola, and cello 


The Rainbow and the Cuckoo takes its title from a line in a 

poem by the Welsh poet W.H. Davies. The oboe is placed 

on an equal footing with the string trio, and the structure 

is of one continuous movement. The piece’s prominent 

feature is the repetition of the cuckoo’s call (a minor third) 

throughout the piece. Tate elongates these two notes into 

a 12-note motif played on all instruments, inverted, and 

reversed, making a complex, characterful piece. 

18 minutes 

Sonata for Clarinet and Cello 

Clarinet and cello 

Cello part 9780193590076 

Clarinet in A part 9780193590069 

Score* 9780193590052 

The first movement is fairly slow and mostly cantabile. 

A feature is the persistent interruption of the flow by a 

curious sotto voce semitonal passage between the two 

instruments, played as if in brackets. The second and third 

movements are fairly straightforward, at least from the 

audience’s point of view. The fourth movement is the most 

elaborate and takes the form of free variations on thematic 

material heard in the first movement, but now much 

transformed. 

*Available from archive 

20 minutes 

String Quartet in F 


Hire parts 9780193590090 

The first movement displays a contrast between the 

‘vigoroso’ opening phrase and a second ‘grazioso’ 

phrase. The second, entitled Cantilena, starts with an 

almost‐Alberti bass on the cello, over which the viola sings 

a long melodic phrase which is developed by the other 

instruments. In the third movement, a graceful waltz-like 

theme alternates with more strongly rhythmic passages. 

25 minutes 

Phyllis Tate 

95

Phyllis Tate 

Concerto for Alto Saxophone and 

String Orchestra 

Alto saxophone and string orchestra 


Saxophone and piano reduction 9780193677302 

The Saxophone Concerto, commissioned by the BBC in 

1944, was Phyllis’s first major success, and showed her 

talent for and interest in exploring the potential of unusual 

and unfashionable instruments. 

22 minutes 

Orchestral 

London Fields 



A four-movement Suite commissioned by the BBC for the 

Light Music Festival of 1958, this is a delightful and witty 

work for orchestra - light music at its very best. 

Contents: Springtime at Kew - Hampton Court: the Maze 

- St James’s Park: a Lakeside Reverie - Hampstead Heath: 

Rondo for Roundabouts 

20 minutes 

Panorama for String Orchestra 



12 minutes 

Song Without Words 



7 minutes 

96

An Irish Song 

Solo violin 


Score 9780193411579 


Explorations around a Troubadour 

Song 

Solo clarinet and piano 

Score 9780193738096 


20 minutes 

Fifteen Fingers 

Piano Duet 

Score 9780193738041 


Let’s Play Piano Duets 

Piano Duet 

Score 9780193738041 


Lyric Suite 

Piano Duet 

Score 9780193738072 


18 minutes 

Prelude Aria Interlude Finale 

Solo clarinet and piano 

Score 9780193590304 


15 minutes 

Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet 

Solo clarinet 

Score 9780193590298 


7 minutes 

Triptych 

Solo violin and piano 

Score 9780193376342 


15 minutes 

When I am laid in Earth (Dido’s 

Lament) 

Solo piano 

Score 9780193411654 


Phyllis Tate 

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Phyllis Tate 

The Lodger 




The Lodger is based on the novel of the same name by 

Marie Belloc Lowndes and tells the story of the Jack the 

Ripper murders of 1888, with the mysterious murderer’s 

landlady being the main character of the opera. We see 

‘Jack’ as a psychopath - one moment kind and gentle, 

the next a maniac. Tate describes the opera as ‘bridging 

the opposed worlds of more advanced contemporary 

music and that of popular entertainment’. The libretto is 

by David Franklin, who was also a well-known soloist at 

the Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne. The work was 

commissioned by the Royal Academy of Music and, as 

such, is suitable for the capabilities of student performers. 

150 minutes 

What D’ye Call It 

Ensemble 


What D’ye Call It is a one-act opera based on a tragi-comicpastoral 

farce written by John Gay in 1715, with the libretto 

for the opera written by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. Wanting 

to write something completely different to The Lodger, 

Tate ‘felt that this play-within-a-play had possibilities as an 

opera-within-a-play and that it offered real scope for a vivid 

and imaginative production’. Commissioned by the 1966 

Cheltenham Festival. 

60 minutes 

The Lodger by Phyllis Tate. 

Photo credit: Heiko Sandelmann_Stadttheater Bremerhaven 

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A Pride of Lions 

Ensemble 


A story for singing and staging suitable for 8-11 yearolds 

for voices (mostly unison with a little two-part), 

narrator, and ensemble. The words are by Ian Serraillier. 

The action is based on an old Persian tale of a virtuous and 

accomplished, but cowardly, prince. The accompaniment is 

for recorders, guitars, and tuned and untuned percussion 

with optional parts for flute (plus picc.), clarinet, horn, 

bassoon, guitar, percussion. 

25 minutes 

Scarecrow 

Children’s choir and ensemble or piano and 

percussion 


Vocal score* 9780193383524 

Written for junior singers, actors and dancers with 

instrumental ensemble or piano and percussion. The 

libretto was written by Michael Morpurgo, a Children’s 

Laureate (2003-05) and author of novels such as War Horse. 


Publications 

25 minutes 

Solar 

Unison voices and chamber orchestra 


This is a school musical for unison voices and orchestra, 

also written in collaboration with Michael Morpurgo, which 

can be performed by small classes or on a larger scale. 

35 minutes 

Works for Young People 

The Story of Lieutenant 

Cockatoo 

Children’s choir and ensemble 


Vocal score* 9780193383906 

The Story of Lieutenant Cockatoo is a musical play, 

commissioned by the BBC as part of the 1968 ‘Making 

Music’ series for children aged 10-11. The excellent 

libretto by Ronald Eyre is a potted version of Samuel 

Taylor Coleridge’s lengthy poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient 

Mariner’. The voices have singable, melodious lines, 

accompanied by chime bars and the tuned and untuned 

percussion usually found in a primary school, with 

additional optional instrumentation available for a Gala 

Performance. 


Publications 

25 minutes 

Twice in a Blue Moon 

Children’s choir and ensemble 

Hire chorus part 9780193383784 


Vocal score* 9780193383777 

An amusing school musical with libretto by Christopher 

Hassall, telling the story of John Crome’s painting, 

Mousehold Heath. Commissioned to be performed by the 

Combined Farnham Boys’ and Girls’ Grammar Schools in 

1969, Tate masterfully writes for the teenaged boys’ voices, 

often using unison for the most sonority. 


Publications 

25 minutes 

Phyllis Tate 

99

Phyllis Tate 

Secular Choral Works 

All the World’s a Stage 

SATB and full orchestra 



16 minutes 

Choral Scenes from Bacchae 

Double choir and organ 

Vocal scores on hire 9780193383401 

17 minutes 

Compassion 

SA soli, SATB, and chamber orchestra 

Scores and instrumental parts on hire 9780193383487 

13 minutes 

St Martha and the Dragon 

Narrator, solo soprano, solo tenor, SA, SATB, 

chamber orchestra, and tape 

Scores and instrumental parts on hire 9780193383982 

One of Tate’s last choral works, this is a setting of a dramatic 

narrative poem by Charles Causley which re-tells in direct 

and vivid verse the Provençal legend of St Martha saving 

the people of Tarascon from a monstrous dragon by 

gentle persuasion and the power of love. This work was 

commissioned by the Barnet and District Choral Society 

and funded by the Arts Council. With humourous touch, 

the musical notes B, D and C feature prominently in the 

score. 

42 minutes 

A Secular Requiem 

(The Phoenix and the Turtle) 

SATB, organ, and orchestra 



Originally written for tenor voice, flute, horn, two cellos, 

piano, and harpsichord, this second version is scored for 

mixed chorus, double winds, trumpet, trombone, four 

cellos, and organ. Both beginning and ending with a 

funeral, this is a setting of a bird-themed poem, attributed 

to Shakespeare, with many allegorical and historical 

interpretations. 

The story, of how the phoenix (female) and turtledove 

(male) fall in love and then die together in a fire, is rich in 

poetic associations. Tate’s composition has been applauded 

for its directness of setting and the apt and imaginative 

music, instrumentation, and scoring. 

15 minutes 

Seven Lincolnshire Folk Songs 

SATB, piano, and percussion 

Vocal score* 9780193437395 

Hire vocal and instrumental scores 9780193448766 

Contents: 

The Sprig of Thyme 

Six Dukes Went A-Fishing 

T’owd yowe wi’ one Horn 

Early one Spring 

Bold William Taylor 

Horkstow Grange (John Bowlin’) 

Oats and Beans and Barley Grows 


Publications 

17 minutes 

100

Secular Choral Leaflets 

All the pretty horses 

No. 3 from Six Songs for Children 


Vocal score 9780193411036 


Cielito Lindo 

Two-part and piano 

Vocal score 9780193414723 


Close to your mother 

SA or SB and piano 

Vocal score 9780193414952 


Dry Bones 


Vocal score 9780193428775 


Engraved on the collar of a dog 


Vocal score 9780193430693 


A farmer went trotting 



Vocal score 9780193411005 


The Foolish Boy (Swapping 

Song) 


Vocal score 9780193414051 


Frere Jacques 

SATB, piano, double bass, and percussion 

Vocal score 9780193397699 


The Frog in the Well 


Vocal score 9780193425057 


Go to the market daughter fair 

SB and piano 

Vocal score 9780193414921 


Hearken Brethren 


Vocal score 9780193419995 


How deep the snow 


Vocal score 9780193425804 


Hurry hurry quickly shepherd 

boy 

SA or SB and piano 

Vocal score 9780193414969 


In Paris there lived a lady 


Vocal score 9780193414983 


I’se the b’y that builds the boat 

Unison or two-part and piano 

Vocal score 9780193414822 


Phyllis Tate 

101

Phyllis Tate 

The Lark in the Clear Air 

Solo voice or unison voices and piano or string 

orchestra 

Vocal score* 9780193419612 


*Vocal score available from Banks Music Publications 

10 minutes 

The Last Rose of Summer 


Vocal score 9780193376373 


Laughing Song 


Vocal score 9780193410664 


Little Piggy 



Vocal score 9780193410985 


Lullaby 


Vocal score 9780193410718 


My heart’s in the highlands 


Vocal score 9780193410671 


Old MacDonald had a farm 


Vocal score 9780193414471 


Shepherd Boy’s Song 

SATB, piano, and optional glockenspiel 

Vocal score 9780193429734 


Soldier won’t you marry me? 


Vocal score 9780193403789 


Street Sounds 

SATB, piano and percussion 

Vocal score 9780193414679 


Sunday in the country 



Vocal score 9780193410992 


The Thirsty Fly 


Vocal score 9780193410657 


Though I’m My Father’s Only Child 


Vocal score 9780193410695 


Three Bohemian Songs 


Vocal score 9780193411586 


102

Three Slovak Songs 


Vocal score 9780193411609 


Three Old Songs of Quebec 


Vocal score 9780193411593 


Weathers 


Vocal score 9780193410688 


Phyllis Tate 

What does the little birdie say? & 

The brave old Duke of York 

No. 1 and 2 from Six Songs for Children 


Vocal score 9780193411050 


When I am a-roaming 

Unison or two-part and piano 

Unison vocal score 9780193419711 

Two-part vocal score 9780193414518 


103

Phyllis Tate 

Christmas Choral Works 

Serenade to Christmas 

Mezzo-soprano solo, SATB, and full orchestra 



22 minutes 

Christmas Choral Leaflets 

Carol for Christmas Eve 

SATB and piano or organ 

Vocal score 9780193430761 


Carol with Lullaby 

SATB and piano or string orchestra 

Vocal score* 9780193410725 



6 minutes 

Glad Christmas Comes 


Vocal score 9780193387485 


Peace on earth to men 

SATB and piano and organ 

Vocal score 9780193430570 


A prince is born 


Vocal score 9780193410701 


Sailing in 

SATB and organ/piano 

Vocal score 9780193430211 


Three Moravian Carols 

SATB or unison and piano or chamber orchestra 


Unison vocal score* 9780195366112 

Three carols (‘Andrew mine, Jasper mine’, ‘By the wayside’ 

and Long ago in Bethlehem), arranged by Stephen Mager. 

*Unison vocal score available from Banks Music 

Publications 

3.5 minutes 

Twelve Days of Christmas 


Vocal score 9780193378261 


The Virgin and Child 

SATB and organ or piano 

Vocal score 9780193429604 


Wassail all over the town! 

SATB and chamber orchestra 

Vocal score* 9780193429901 



6 minutes 

104

Solo Voice 

Brother James 

Medium voice and piano 

Vocal score 9780193458116 


Cradle Song 


Vocal score 9780193410749 


Epitaph 


Vocal score 9780193410756 


I sing of a maiden 


Vocal score 9780193385405 


The Lark in the Clear Air 

High voice and piano 

Vocal score 9780193458154 


My love could walk 


Vocal score 9780193410732 


The quiet mind 


Vocal score 9780193385412 


The Snowy-Breasted Pearl 

Medium voice and piano 

Vocal score 9780193385429 


Two Songs 


Vocal score 9780193411296 

Contents: ‘The Cock’ and ‘The Falcon’. 


Songs of Sundrie Kindes 

Tenor and lute 

Vocal score 9780193458291 


The Water of the Tyne 


Vocal score 9780193458208 


Phyllis Tate 

105

Voth - Watson 

- Ellen Gilson Voth - 

The Circle of Time 

SSAATTBB & solo voices, unaccompanied 

Vocal score 9780193868779 

2 minutes 

An Advent Carol 

SATB or SSA and Keyboard 



“This Advent moon shines cold and clear” - this piece 

sets text by Christina Rossetti and includes a flexible 

accompaniment for organ or piano. 

3.5 minutes 



A la Cart 

- Judith Watson - 

4-part upper voices & piano 

Vocal score 9780193426467 

Digital 9780193537385 

A witty and amusing encore item for 4 equal upper voices 

and piano, describing a little-known incident from the 

boyhood of Mozart. With Mozartean melodies and Alberti 

bass, the song includes a simple but effective four-part 

canon. 

3 minutes 


106

Blessed assurance 


Vocal score 9780193870260 

This rhythmic and spirited setting of the familiar hymn 

starts off with men’s voices split into three- to six-part 

harmony in homophony. The women join and the texture 

thickens and varies producing a broad and spacious sound, 

decorated with syncopation and dramatic pauses. 

4 minutes 

- Nancy Wertsch - 


Spirituals 

Nancy Wertsch 

Didn’ my Lord deliver Daniel? 


Vocal score 9780193870277 

Right from the first bar, this upbeat, refreshing 

arrangement of the African-American spiritual will catch 

the attention of the performer and audience. Culminating 

in six-part harmony with dramatic pauses, this memorable 

work makes for the perfect encore. 

2.5 minutes 

Ride on, King Jesus! 


Vocal score 9780193870284 

All are bound to get caught up in the energy and fervour of 

this new setting of the spiritual Ride On, King Jesus! 

Wertsch uses the full range of dynamics and so adds 

intensity and variety to the verses. This is a great concert 

piece as well as an uplifting hymn for a service. 

2 minutes 

107

Grace Williams 

- Grace Williams - 

1906 - 1977 

Grace Williams was one of the most prominent and 

celebrated Welsh composers of the twentieth-century, 

and the influence of the landscapes of and culture in 

Wales on her works is distinct. 

After graduating from University College, Cardiff, 

Williams pursued further studies with Ralph Vaughan 

Williams and Gordon Jacob at the Royal College of 

Music in London and then, on scholarship, with Egon 

Wellesz in Vienna. After her return to London in the 

early 1930s, she taught for a number of years at the 

Camden School for Girls and at Southlands College of 

Education, in London. 

Her ‘homecoming’ to Barry, Wales in 1947 marked 

a new phase of her life. She worked on educational 

programmes for the BBC, but her main activity was 

as a composer; writing most of her major works in 

response to commissions from the BBC, the Royal 

National Eisteddfod, and festivals at Llandaff and 

Swansea. Williams’ output is mainly for orchestra and 

for voices with orchestra, although she also wrote 

several songs and pieces for solo instruments. She 

was also one of the first women to write music for film 

(Blue Scar, 1948). 

Williams has had a notable influence on generations of 

Welsh composers both while alive and after her death, 

and has a position of great importance in the musical 

language of twentieth-century British music. 

108

Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes 


2 fl (II+picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 2 tpt, 2 tbn, btbn, 

timp, 2 perc (SD, glock, tri, tamb, clash cym), hp, str 


One of William’s most popular works, Fantasia on Welsh 

Nursery Tunes is a light-hearted musical journey through 

childhood in eight traditional tunes. The jubilant start 

to the work is echoed in the finale with a calmer, but 

effectively scored, middle section. Melodies used include: 

Jim Cro, Deryn y Bwn o’r Banna, Migildi Magildi, Si Hei Lwli 

‘Mabi, Gee ceffyl bach, Cysga di fy mhlentyn tlws, Yr eneth 

ffein ddu, and Cadi ha! 

11 minutes 

Penillion 


2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn (2 opt), 2 tpt, 3 tbn, timp, perc 

(cym, SD, glock, cast), hp, str 


In this four-movement suite for orchestra, Williams adapts 

characteristics from ‘canu penillion’ or ‘cerdd dant’ (penillion 

singing), a Welsh tradition going back centuries. ‘Penillion 

is the Welsh word for stanzas. It gives the impression of 

being a free improvisation, sung to the accompaniment of 

a Welsh air played on the harp. This orchestral suite breaks 

with tradition in many respects: it does not include any 

Welsh airs, and there is not always a contrast between the 

Penillion and the accompaniment. Nevertheless, it retains 

the narrative style, stanza form, and many melodic and 

rhythmic characteristics of traditional Penillion.’ 

—Grace Williams 

14 minutes 

Orchestral Works 


Sea Sketches 



One of Grace Williams’ most popular works, Sea Sketches 

is an evocative description of the moods of the sea in five 

movements: High Wind - Sailing Song - Channel Sirens - 

Breakers - Calm Sea in Summer. The suite is dedicated to 

Williams’ parents. 

17 minutes 

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The Dancers (1951) 

Soprano solo, SSA choir, harp or piano, and string 

orchestra 



A choral suite in five movements by five writers; H.D. 

(Songs of Cyprus) Hilaire Belloc, Thomas Chatterton, May 

Sarton, and Kathleen Raine. The soprano solo sings the 

dream-like first movement ‘Gather For Festival’ then the 

upper voice choir sing the more lively Tarantella before 

both solo and chorus joining for the Roundelay. The 

haunting ‘Lose the pain in the snow’ (for choir and sparsesounding, 

chordal accompaniment) follows, before we are 

taken ‘To the Wild Hills’ in a spirited, final movement that 

dies away mirroring the lyrics “...the dance will be still...”. 

A recording of this, and other works by Grace Williams can 

be found on the Chandos record label (CD CHAN 9617). 

Premiere: 18 November 1954, Joan Sutherland (soprano), 

Penarth Ladies’ Choir, BBC Welsh Orchestra, Arwel Hughes. 

10 minutes 

Choral Leaflet Secular 

Belinda went to the well 

(Margoton va-t-à-l’eau) 

Unison voices and piano 


The Blackbird (Y Fwyalchen) 



Bonny at Morn 

No. 3 from Four Folk Songs 



The Cavalier on Patrol (Le Chevalier 

du Guet) 



Dalmation Lullaby 

No. 2 from Yugoslav Folk Songs 


Vocal score 9780193512115 


The Gentle Dove (Y Deryn Pur) 



The Jolly Pedlar 



The Little Princess 

S(A) and piano or harp 


Mary Mary Maiden 

No. 1 from Yugoslav Folk songs 

Unison voices and string orchestra 

Vocal score 9780193512139 


One of three Yugoslav folk songs arranged by Grace 

Williams in the early 1950s, with English text written by the 

composer. 

Vocal score available from Banks Music Publication 

6 minutes 

O Rare Turpin 




The Pearly Adriatic 

No. 3 from Yugoslav Folk Songs 

Two-part or S(A)chorus, string orchestra, piano, 

and opt. organ 

Vocal score 9780193512146 


One of three Yugoslav folk songs arranged by Grace 

Williams in the early 1950s, with English text written by the 

composer. 

Vocal score available from Banks Music Publication 

6 minutes 

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The Shepherdess 


Unison voices and string orchestra 



6 minutes 

The Song of the Flax 


Unison voices (optional descant) and piano 


Three Lyrics (from the plays of 

Shakespeare) 



Vale of Llanberis 

S(A) and piano or harp 

Vocal score 9780193524774 


Ave Maris Stella 



Vocal score 9780193387553 


The Loom 

Low/ Medium voice and piano 


Watching the Wheat (Bugeilio’r 

Gwenith Gwyn) 

High voice and piano 

Solo Voice 



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