SATB Music Selections

Sacrilege or a stroke of genius? This arrangement takes the first movement of the famous Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven and has added a four-part choral movement to it, which is underlain with the

At less than 20 years of age, the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach withdrew from the Lutheran musical tradition of his family: Johann Christian Bach went to Italy, converted to Catholicism there and

A very fresh and different a cappella arrangement of this classic hymn. Using the traditional melody, new harmonic ideas are introduced which add a modern flair.

An a cappella setting of the Irish comic ballad that is full of fun. The lyrics introduce the hod-carrier Tim Finnegan, born "with a love for the liquor," who falls from a ladder, breaks his skull, and is

A pullout from the larger Wiegenlieder - settings of German lullabies and evening songs of stylistic diversity - this rather modern and artistic setting of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star in E-flat

A bluesy gospel arrangement of this traditional spiritual which will absolutely delight your choir and astound your audience. This is sure to become a choral standard for community and collegiate

Repertoire of romantic choral music worth discovering! Schumann's unaccompanied choral songs combine expressive melodies with a harmonically rich, sometimes even experimental compositional style. Though

This dynamic collection includes 30 traditional spirituals and gospel songs arranged for mixed choir. Utilizing catchy rhythms, grooves, blue notes, and principles of call and response, these rousing

Matsushita’s Ave Maria is a very intimate short unaccompanied piece of true inward devotion. An experienced composer, Matsushita has chosen a tonal musical language for this homophonic piece. His

This Folk Songs choral collection explores the musical world of Great Britain and Ireland. It contains 21 arrangements of English-language verse songs, canons, and ballads for mixed unaccompanied chorus.

Edited by Christine Blanken. For soloists, SATB choir & orchestra. Urtext Edition. Preface in Ger. and Eng. For this edition, the tenor part has been reconstructed by Detlev Schulten (Leipzig).

The Missa in D minor, published here, the third of Haydn's six late masses, was written during the summer of 1798 between the two late oratorios. According to the dates given on Haydn's autograph

This work sets this traditional text quite simply to reflect the foot-washing moment of the Good Friday liturgy in a beautiful motet which is both charming and satisfying to sing. In an entirely tonal

This chorale cantata was composed in Leipzig for Reformation Day and is based on Martin Luther's hymn Ein feste Burg

Beethoven several times described his Missa solemnis as his greatest work, explaining that it came "from the heart." The surviving sources show us how intensively and how long he worked on the

With its tonal language, the first of Beethoven's two Masses opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical texts of the Mass which are expressively modern and forward thinking. Not to be considered a

Completed and edited by Robert D. Levin, with a foreword by the editor.