Advanced Adults | SingScore https://singscore.com.au Songs and Scores for Choirs Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:10:14 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://singscore.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-favi3-3-32x32.png Advanced Adults | SingScore https://singscore.com.au 32 32 Words of Wisdom Song Cycle https://singscore.com.au/product/words-of-wisdom-song-cycle/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:03:56 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238434 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Katy writes: “Words of Wisdom, in its original form, comprised ten humorous vignettes and was composed for The Song Company between 2001and 2024. Since then, there have been many performances of Words of Wisdom, often including fragments of the whole work.Chosen for their delightful truths, the songs shed light on some elements of the human condition: emotion, relationships, image and purpose.

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]]> Fool https://singscore.com.au/product/fool/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 02:15:26 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238425 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> “He who asks is a fool for five minutes. But he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” Chinese proverb. This and other wonderful quotes are in this gem of a song about finding wisdom from Katy’s song cycle “Words of Wisdom.” Words of Wisdom full Song Cycle available here.

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]]> Sacred Lotus https://singscore.com.au/product/sacred-lotus-2/ Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:05:59 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238422 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This piece is a meditation on the Latin botanic name for the Sacred Lotus flower, Nelumbo Nucifera. Originally commissioned by the Sydney Children’s Choir as part of their Sydney Botanical Gardens project in 2011, this piece can also be sung by adult female voices. The piano part is a meandering melody of flowing passages, with hints of oriental tunes, and requires a good player.

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]]> Angry is Easy https://singscore.com.au/product/angry-is-easy/ Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:38:13 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238392 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This song is piece number one from Words of Wisdom, which in its original form, comprised of nine humorous vignettes and was composed for The Song Company. Since that time, there have been many performances of Words of Wisdom, which often include fragments of the whole work. Chosen for their delightful truths, the songs shed light on some elements of the human condition: emotion, relationships…

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]]> Canvas Blooms https://singscore.com.au/product/canvas-blooms/ Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:26:03 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238370 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This piece was commissioned by Clare Finlayson for Resonance of Birralee as part of The Vincent Project. With a text by Emily Winter, it is a beautiful, lush celebration of van Gogh’s colours and vibrancy. This song requires a very good pianist. Hear a live performance by Resonance of Birralee on YouTube. Click here to find more information from Paul Holley about The Vincent Project…

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]]> Bee Ba Bee (improv) https://singscore.com.au/product/bee-ba-bee-improv/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:36:52 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238362 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> This nonsense piece is a rhythmic improvisation around a few musical ideas. Create your own piece, depending on the number of musicians you have. Layer the sections on top of once another to create cross-rhythms. Use the music in Part A often, Part B sometimes, and Part C once. And make sure you decide on a convincing way to end the piece! Listen to the live recording from Newcastle’s Echology…

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]]> Joy of Joys https://singscore.com.au/product/joy-of-joys-2/ Wed, 07 May 2025 00:01:41 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238191 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> This is an easy to learn, jazzy piece with playful and waggish text. A showy contemporary splash of traditional counterpoint with a ‘warm-up’ round embedded within the work. Robert writes: Joy of Joys was first conceived as a round – and indeed the round can be lifted from the song and used as such, written for The Logan City Community choir, which was struggling to attract more men to join.

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]]> The Voice of a Song https://singscore.com.au/product/the-voice-of-a-song-3/ Fri, 02 May 2025 00:44:47 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238172 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Annie writes: “This piece was written after attending my first conference after Covid; having so many driven, inspired + like-minded people come together face-to-face to share ideas was such a joy and shows us all how essential human connection is. It was also written in celebration of the connective power of music, and how something so all-encompassing can grow from a tiny idea.

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]]> I Will Write https://singscore.com.au/product/i-will-write/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:39:19 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238165 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> An uplifting and generous song about finding ourselves through the reflection and act of writing. Annie says: “This piece was originally written for young male voices in encouragement of their artistic pursuits, in having the courage to be expressive, creative + innovative, even if it means stepping aside from the crowd.” “How can I not know the passage of my heart? Let me write my way into my…

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]]> Sanctus https://singscore.com.au/product/sanctus/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:42:53 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238148 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> This uplifting Sanctus can be performed separately, or in combination with Robert’s Benedictus and Agnus Dei (both available in several voicings). Like those other pieces, this work presents first the Latin text and then the English translation so as to include both and enhance meaning.

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]]> Benedictus https://singscore.com.au/product/benedictus-2/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:47:29 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238115 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Robert writes: “The Benedictus was composed as a companion piece to go with the Agnus Dei. Like the Agnus Dei this work presents first the Latin text and then the English translation. A simple monophonic and homophonic opening evolves into a more polyphonic texture with overlapping cascading voices, all supported by a vibrant piano accompaniment. A short yet bright piece for concert…

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]]> The Star https://singscore.com.au/product/the-star/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:58:11 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238095 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This piece is a setting of a poem by Jane Taylor, written in 1806, composed by Rachel for Gondwana Voices in 2015. It is suitable for advanced treble voices due to frequent changes in time signature, which gives the piece a lively, playful and sweet flavour. The live recording below is generously provided by Gondwana Voices.

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]]> Mistletoebird https://singscore.com.au/product/mistletoebird/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:24:08 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=238087 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Rachel writes: When I began my research into existing Australian Christmas carols, I came across an excellent article written in 2021 in The Guardian by Melbourne- based writer, Patrick Lenton, entitled ‘Australian Christmas songs ranked by how baffling they are to literally anyone else’. Patrick created three categories to rank songs: the confusion rating, the Australian rating, and finally…

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]]> Gliders https://singscore.com.au/product/gliders-2/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:07:43 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237932 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> A beautiful poem by Banjo Paterson, these lyrics celebrate one of Australia’s best-loved marsupials – the Sugar Glider. Lyric, expressive and enjoyable to sing, this piece has a flowing energy that your choir will enjoy performing! (Also available for SSA with piano.) (The live recording is generously provided by Coro Innominata 2025. …

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]]> Ayee Bird https://singscore.com.au/product/ayee-bird-2/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:52:57 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237906 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Lachlan writes of this piece: Ayee Bird appears as part of the oratorio The Tides of Longing, commissioned forThe West Australian Symphony Orchestra by Geoff Stearn and Bridget Faye AM. Libretto adapted from Jay Emmanuel’s play Children of the Sea, originally presented by Encounter Theatre. This version was adapted for mixed voices. Also available for Children’s Chorus with harp (or piano).

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]]> Benedictus https://singscore.com.au/product/benedictus/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 02:43:49 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237774 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Robert writes: “The Benedictus was composed as a companion piece to go with the Agnus Dei. Like the Agnus Dei this work presents first the Latin text and then the English translation. A simple monophonic and homophonic opening evolves into a more polyphonic texture with overlapping cascading voices, all supported by a vibrant piano accompaniment. A short yet bright piece for concert…

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]]> Joy of Joys https://singscore.com.au/product/joy-of-joys/ Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:35:23 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237766 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> This is an easy to learn, jazzy piece with playful and waggish text. A showy contemporary splash of traditional counterpoint with a ‘warm-up’ round embedded within the work. Robert writes: Joy of Joys was first conceived as a round – and indeed the round can be lifted from the song and used as such, written for The Logan City Community choir, which was struggling to attract more men to join.

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]]> Agnus Dei https://singscore.com.au/product/agnus-dei-5/ Sun, 29 Dec 2024 05:43:24 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237760 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> A lyrical and accessible version of this Latin mass text (the Lamb of God) for choirs with more treble voices than lower singers. Agnus Dei is a polyphonic setting, which also gives the English translation of the Latin within the context of the work. A rolling piano accompaniment supports the voices and the harmonic modulations. This intimate, simple, easily learnt piece is an excellent…

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]]> Old Man https://singscore.com.au/product/old-man/ Sun, 29 Dec 2024 05:06:48 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237746 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Burrell’s evocative piece demonstrates beautiful 4-part writing to this self-composed text. Old Man was originally composed in 1984 and given its premier Maine Hall, UQ by the Qld Conservatorium Singings lead by Dr Roy Wales. The song speaks to the rich benefits of a loyal and long-term relationship. The rich close-harmony and well-considered voice leading and counterpoint make this a very…

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]]> What Shall we Do with a Drunken Sailor? https://singscore.com.au/product/what-shall-we-do-with-a-drunken-sailor/ Sat, 21 Dec 2024 06:14:58 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237740 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> A fabulous, rollicking folksong of the sea-shanty kind, this arrangment starts with an introduction of The Volga Boatmen, and then plunges into a jaunty rhythm. Altos and tenors share the same line for much of the piece, and there are sections of male and female unison singing. Feel free to play around with the rhythms and the drunkenness! (Please note, the live recording below the score is a…

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]]> Those Other Things https://singscore.com.au/product/those-other-things/ Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:02:10 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237617 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This song is a setting of a gorgeous text adapted by the words of Chris Wallace-Crabbe, when a moment exists to see or hear a glimpse of another reality. Originally written for Gondwana Chorale (see YouTube performance below), this more extensive song would suit advanced young adults or adult singers.

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]]> O Kalter Männer Sinn https://singscore.com.au/product/o-kalter-manner-sinn/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:11:10 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=237554 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> A lush, richly harmonic and poignant look at the Jesus’ disciples and his family’s reaction to his life and death. Inspired by J.S. Bach BWV 249. Lachlan writes: “This piece was originally written for the Western Australian Opera for a show called Oratorio, which included four recitatives re-set and extended by me. O Kalter is the first of these. …

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]]> Over and Over https://singscore.com.au/product/over-and-over/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 07:32:00 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236727 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Have a listen to the Australian Voices in rehearsal working on this beautiful and haunting piece by Lachlan – a setting of Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous (translated) text. “Over and Over” was adapted for Gordon Hamilton and the Australian Voices from a set of works originally commissioned by the Simon Lee Foundation. …

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]]> Time is Running Out https://singscore.com.au/product/time-is-running-out-2/ Thu, 23 May 2024 01:28:50 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236645 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Ashes https://singscore.com.au/product/ashes-2/ Thu, 23 May 2024 00:40:34 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236638 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Lorikeets https://singscore.com.au/product/lorikeets-2/ Thu, 23 May 2024 00:04:19 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236635 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Wonga Vine https://singscore.com.au/product/wonga-vine-2/ Wed, 22 May 2024 02:29:32 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236628 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Sunrise on the Coast https://singscore.com.au/product/sunrise-on-the-coast-2/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:37:35 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236564 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> You may Bury me in de Eas’ https://singscore.com.au/product/you-may-bury-me-in-de-eas/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:13:22 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236447 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This is a lovely and emotive setting of this gospel text written for 4-part mixed voices. Hear the recording below performed by the University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers. …

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]]> Didn’t my Lord Deliver Daniel https://singscore.com.au/product/didnt-my-lord-deliver-daniel/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:17:41 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236422 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> A fast and furiously entertaining version of this classic Spiritual. This piece suits an advanced adult choir. The recording is generously provided by the University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers. Didn't my Lord Deliver Daniel performance UNH Chamber Singers…

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]]> A Joyful New Year https://singscore.com.au/product/a-joyful-new-year/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:55:15 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236393 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> A wonderfully joyful piece for Christmas or New Year. Fast and lively, this piece suits an advanced mixed group of voices. William Kempster conducts The University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers who are performing at the Brucknerhaus, Linz, in the video below. …

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]]> Dreaming Isle https://singscore.com.au/product/dreaming-isle/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 07:28:50 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236333 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This is a beautiful, subtle and tender setting of William Shakespeare’s text from The Tempest. It would suit advanced singers due to its focus on technique and control. The live recording is generously provided by the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir. Dreaming Isle recording: Rocky Mountain Chamber…

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]]> See! https://singscore.com.au/product/see/ Sun, 28 Jan 2024 02:26:29 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236300 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This epic work takes texts from Whitman about the exploration of the Americas and the wonders which were observed there by immigrants to her shores. It is a challenging piece suitable for a more advance choir. The live recording is generously provided by the UNH Concert Choir. Paul Merrill on piano, and conducted by William Kempster. …

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]]> The Moon https://singscore.com.au/product/the-moon/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:22:14 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236287 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Abigail writes: The Moon explores ideas of place, longing, and beauty. I wrote the text after a late night at university, unwinding with a close friend after a performance. It was quite enchanting standing together, watching the full moon’s light paint the normally busy streets in a quiet glow, and I sought to express that sense of wonderment in this piece. This piece was written for Vox…

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]]> A Christmas Lullaby https://singscore.com.au/product/a-christmas-lullaby/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 08:26:07 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=236098 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ruth writes: “I initially wrote this piece for Marcello Maio on piano accordion and The Song Company – with 6 vocal parts. Marcello had such beautiful freedom as he played, and this lullaby rocks between two chords for most of the song. In this performance below (recorded in Angel Place in Sydney), the singers performed this as an encore and exited the stage during the final section.

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]]> Waking Dreamer https://singscore.com.au/product/waking-dreamer-4/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:45:01 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235867 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> One of Annie’s most popular songs which is full of energy and intensity has arrived! This was first composed in 2006 for the Gondwana Voices Choir and has been arranged for several voice-types. PLEASE NOTE: live performance below is of the 2-part treble version, but you’ll get the gist… This piece is also available for TBarB with piano, 2-parts with piano and SATB with piano.

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]]> Waking Dreamer https://singscore.com.au/product/waking-dreamer-3/ Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:12:07 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235832 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> One of Annie’s most popular songs which is full of energy and intensity has arrived! This was first composed in 2006 for the Gondwana Voices Choir and has been arranged for several voice-types. PLEASE NOTE: live performance below is of the 2-part treble version, but you’ll get the gist… This piece is also available for TBarB with piano and 2-parts with piano and SSA with piano.

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]]> Botany Bay https://singscore.com.au/product/botany-bay/ Sun, 13 Aug 2023 05:08:57 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235787 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This arrangement is an attempt to highlight the sense of loss and anxiety which must surely have been in the hearts and minds of the British convicts as they headed south on their world-encompassing adventure and their new lives. The character of the folk tune has been maintained and it will be well-recognised by singers and audience alike.

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]]> Full Fathom Five https://singscore.com.au/product/full-fathom-five/ Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:09:23 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235695 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Clive uses rich, descending harmonies in this setting of Shakespeare’s classic text. The recording is generously made available by the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir.

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]]> Fractals of Light https://singscore.com.au/product/fractals-of-light/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 06:34:02 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235679 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> The glorious nature of light is explored in this song, and its impact on ourselves; how it dances and brings us joy.

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]]> Salve Regina https://singscore.com.au/product/salve-regina/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 00:47:27 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235471 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> A rich and sonorous version of the sacred text to the Virgin Mary. Clive’s setting is experienced and shows a confident hand, with harmonic progressions which lead us through this liturgical text to the final salutation to the Mother of Christ. The live recording is generously provided by the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir.

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]]> When David Heard https://singscore.com.au/product/when-david-heard/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 22:34:26 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235453 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> A song of mourning as King David laments the death of his rebellious son Absalom. Even though he betrayed his father and joined the army fighting against him, David still wishes he had died in his stead. This piece is characterised by the use of rich harmonies and lower registers. The live recording is by Bel a cappella.

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]]> I am the Rose of Sharon https://singscore.com.au/product/i-am-the-rose-of-sharon/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 05:06:30 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235446 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Clive brings us this beautiful setting for mixed voices of the famous love text from Song of Solomon Chapter 2. The recording is generously provided by the Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir. I am the Rose of Sharon. Rocky Mountain Chamber Choir …

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]]> Juno https://singscore.com.au/product/juno/ Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:48:25 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235144 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Out of Cape Canaveral Florida on the 5th of August 2011, the Juno Spacecraft departed Earth, bound for the Jovian System. The mission: To unlock the secrets of the origin of the solar system. Jupiter holds the key. Five years later, on the 5th of July 2016, having travelled 2.8 billion kilometres, the Juno Spacecraft fired its rockets at just the right time, speed and angle to be placed into orbit…

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]]> You https://singscore.com.au/product/you/ Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:19:34 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235127 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Perfect. Beautiful. Inexplicable. Resonating. Only you. A beautiful, affirming piece with warm harmonies for male voices.

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]]> Peat Brown Hours https://singscore.com.au/product/peat-brown-hours/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 06:31:43 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235119 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This song is set to a poem by Maria Wallace about the discovery of the Meenybradden Woman who was found in a bog in County Donegal, Ireland, in 1978. She appeared to be 25-30 years old at the time of her death, and she died between 1050–1410 CE, according to radiocarbon dating of her remains.

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]]> I am a Fish https://singscore.com.au/product/i-am-a-fish/ Sat, 23 Jul 2022 11:37:37 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=235041 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> A marvellous and energetic rendition of this text (also by Juliana Kay) about the cycles and connections of that most wonderful of animals, the fish. Juliana writes: A fish is a wonderfully insignificant creature, utterly inseparable from its environment. Despite humanity’s best efforts otherwise, are we not the same? The recording is generously provided by Exaudi Youth Choir.

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]]> Time is Running Out https://singscore.com.au/product/time-is-running-out/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 01:46:02 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214187 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Ashes https://singscore.com.au/product/ashes/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 01:43:32 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214184 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Jellyfish https://singscore.com.au/product/jellyfish/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:26:16 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214179 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Magpie https://singscore.com.au/product/magpie/ Wed, 11 May 2022 06:40:51 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214106 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Lorikeets https://singscore.com.au/product/lorikeets/ Wed, 11 May 2022 04:22:30 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214100 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Wonga Vine https://singscore.com.au/product/wonga-vine/ Wed, 11 May 2022 02:52:13 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214089 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Andy’s Gone with Cattle https://singscore.com.au/product/andys-gone-with-cattle/ Wed, 11 May 2022 02:37:37 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214084 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Sunrise on the Coast https://singscore.com.au/product/sunrise-on-the-coast/ Wed, 11 May 2022 02:14:19 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214080 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Joe writes: After eight years living and working in the USA, I returned to Australia in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Returning to the natural beauty of south east Queensland was not only soul nourishing. My works so often draw on my love of beaches, forests, sunsets and other natural wonders – even in LA where I enjoyed stunning West Coast sunsets and frequent Pacific swims.

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]]> Impossible Compass https://singscore.com.au/product/impossible-compass/ Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:16:59 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=214002 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This song for male voices by Annie Kwok is a call to recognise the inner compass of the heart. Only then will a person find strength, knowledge and direction. Annie has dedicated the piece to “the wanderers and the nomads.

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]]> It Must Have Felt Like Flying https://singscore.com.au/product/it-must-have-felt-like-flying/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 02:21:45 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213860 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Annie writes: 2021 was the 20th anniversary of 9/11. I read about the accounts of the people who jumped – those who were in the floors above the point of impact, or those whose escape routes were blocked. I hesitated long and hard over this idea and nearly gave up at various points of writing it – for obvious reasons. Who am I to even begin to understand this? Then I listened to an interview…

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]]> Afterword https://singscore.com.au/product/afterword/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 01:18:39 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213429 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Commissioned in 2011 for the Pemulwuy National Male Voice Festival by the Voices of Birralee, this is a brooding, dramatic and passionate song about a couple going in two different directions. The piano parts are suitable for experienced players. Please note that the PDF comes with a full score plus a score for two pianos. (Contact SingScore if you also need a score with vocal parts only.)…

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]]> Twinkle Twinkle Little Star https://singscore.com.au/product/twinkle-twinkle-little-star/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 03:39:11 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213420 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This classic children’s lullaby is reimagined in a minor key with a groove which offsets the rhythms of this well-known tune and modernises it in such a way that Mozart would surely approve. It retains its gentle rocking rhythm but will still be a challenge for mixed voices. Listen out for the hidden Christmas carol! This piece is also available in SA with piano (and backing track).

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]]> Waabin https://singscore.com.au/product/wabiny/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:49:18 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213414 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Ross writes: This work was commissioned for Methodist Ladies’ College Chorale in Western Australia and their director Dr Robert Faulkner for the 2020 World Choir Games in Flanders, Belgium. The commission is generously supported by the Methodist Ladies’ College Friends of Music. Methodist Ladies’ College, Claremont WA is built upon land whose traditional custodians are the Mooro people of…

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]]> Dominion https://singscore.com.au/product/dominion/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:26:38 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213401 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This solemn and lyrical work for choir and piano is adapted from a piece of the same name for choir and orchestra written in 2020 for the 2021 Vietnam War commemoration project. Sponsored by Flowers of War and the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, Dominion recalls the battle at Long Tan with a text adapted from the first stanza of Dylan Thomas’, “And death shall have no dominion.

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]]> Deine Mami https://singscore.com.au/product/deine-mami/ Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:06:43 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213356 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Sam writes: In 2015, my father received a phone call from the Sydney Jewish Museum. “Mr Weiss,”they said, “We have come into possession of something that we think you should come and see.” The museum had been donated an item that had mysteriously surfaced in a pawn shop in Bondi, NSW, and was purchased by a man who kept it in his personal collection, only to donate the diary to the Jewish Museum…

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]]> Psalm 117 (Praise the Lord all Nations) https://singscore.com.au/product/psalm-117-praise-the-lord-all-nations/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 01:13:17 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213133 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Andrew writes a triumphant setting of this Psalm of praise. This piece is part of a trilogy of Psalms by Andrew, along with Psalm 70 (Save me O God) and Psalm 100 (Make a Joyful Noise). Contact SingScore for the version for SATB with organ (live audio demo extract is the version with organ.) Recording extract provided courtesy of Move Records. …

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]]> Cockles and Mussels https://singscore.com.au/product/cockles-and-mussels/ Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:21:01 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213123 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This arrangement features only the first verse of this traditional Irish folksong. Instead of treating the whole song, this piece paints an aural picture of young Molly Malone selling her wares through the streets near the water’s edge as she moves like the wandering melody of the oboe line. Listen out for the sound of her shells dropping into her basket at the end. Listen to Newcastle’s Echology…

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]]> 4-Chord Gloria https://singscore.com.au/product/4-chord-gloria-2/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 23:49:21 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213110 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> What started off as a fun idea; writing a Gloria using the 4-chords which make up so much of modern Western music – has become a joyful song with the alto voices providing clapping patterns and some divisi of voices towards the end. This piece is lots of fun to sing! Originally written for the Grammarphones (mixed voices). The SABar with piano version is also available here. …

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]]> 4-Chord Gloria https://singscore.com.au/product/4-chord-gloria/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:46:45 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213104 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> What started off as a fun idea; writing a Gloria using the 4-chords which make up so much of modern Western music – has become a joyful song with the male voices providing clapping patterns and some divisi of voices towards the end. This piece is lots of fun to sing! Originally written for the Grammarphones. A version for treble voices (SSA) and piano is also available here.

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]]> Psalm 70 (Save me O God) https://singscore.com.au/product/psalm-70-save-me-o-god-2/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 04:04:03 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213092 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Andrew writes a stirring setting of this Psalm of desperation. This piece is part of a trilogy of Psalms by Andrew, along with Psalm 117 (Praise the Lord) and Psalm 100 (Make a Joyful Noise). A version with piano is also available. An extract of the audio is provided courtesy of Move Records. …

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]]> Psalm 70 (Save me O God) https://singscore.com.au/product/psalm-70-save-me-o-god/ Tue, 22 Jun 2021 03:39:57 +0000 https://singscore.com.au/?post_type=product&p=213089 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Andrew writes a stirring setting of this Psalm of desperation. This piece is part of a trilogy of Psalms by Andrew, along with Psalm 117 (Praise the Lord) and Psalm 100 (Make a Joyful Noise). A version with organ is also available. An extract of the audio (with organ) is provided courtesy of Move Records. …

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]]> The Coffee Song https://singscore.com.au/product/the-coffee-song-3/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 23:13:58 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212956 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Andrew writes: ‘The Coffee Song’ was originally written for Southern Voices, a Melbourne choral program run by my partner Sharon. The piece was specifically written for the Youth Chorale, an SATB choir of teens and twenties (the SATB version can be found here). This arrangement (and another version for SSA with piano) I did more recently to make it more accessible. After all, we all like coffee!

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]]> The Coffee Song https://singscore.com.au/product/the-coffee-song-2/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 22:45:02 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212950 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Andrew writes: ‘The Coffee Song’ was originally written for Southern Voices, a Melbourne choral program run by my partner Sharon. The piece was specifically written for the Youth Chorale, an SATB choir of teens and twenties.The recording (see below the score) is performed by the Composer’s Choir (Connecticut, USA) with Daniel Shaw as director. Other versions available are SSA with piano…

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]]> The Coffee Song https://singscore.com.au/product/the-coffee-song/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:26:13 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212942 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Andrew writes: ‘The Coffee Song’ was originally written for Southern Voices, a Melbourne choral program run by my partner Sharon. The piece was specifically written for the Youth Chorale, an SATB choir of teens and twenties (this version available here. See also the SABar with piano version). This arrangement I did more recently to make it more accessible. After all, we all like coffee! NOTE…

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]]> After the Midnight https://singscore.com.au/product/after-the-midnight/ Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:02:01 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212732 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Ben writes: This was written for Exaudi Youth Choir to fill a very specific gap in their repertoire – they needed something Australian and something sacred! I found an old hymn text, by James Rowe (1915). I have a very soft spot for this piece – I love the victorious piano part. It’s rarely performed and I’d love to see it out in the world more!

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]]> You Will Sing with Us https://singscore.com.au/product/you-will-sing-with-us/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:49:08 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212458 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licenses. Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> A glorious and uplifting piece with an irregular metre, this song was commissioned for multiple choirs for a festival, so there is flexibility regarding who sings the alto/tenor line, depending on your choir numbers. A song with positive words about not giving up and daring to love…loudly! (NOTE: The PDF includes a full score, a vocal-only score and a djembe/piano score so that you can print the…

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]]> When I Am Old https://singscore.com.au/product/when-i-am-old/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 04:27:54 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212432 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Originally commissioned by Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, this sumptuous piece for mixed voices is a celebration of mature love, even when memories dim. Hear the live recording below by VOX, taken from a performance at the Utzon Room, Sydney Opera House (used by permission). When I Am Old live…

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]]> Griffin https://singscore.com.au/product/griffin/ Fri, 29 May 2020 05:31:24 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212326 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Andrew writes: This work consists of settings for unaccompanied choir of inspirational texts from three ‘Chicago School’ architects from the early 1900s: Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan and Walter Burley Griffin. Burnham and Sullivan were powerful influences on Griffin in developing his award-winning design for the city of Canberra. The work was commissioned for the Centenary of Canberra in 2013…

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]]> Nunc Dimittis https://singscore.com.au/product/nunc-dimittis/ Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:47:23 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212162 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Originally commissioned by the Brisbane Chamber Choir and Graeme Morton, this work is a setting of the celebratory biblical passage recorded by Simeon, a devout man who has been awaiting the arrival of the Messiah. Upon seeing the young Jesus, he rejoices that his time of waiting is now over. …

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]]> Magnificat https://singscore.com.au/product/magnificat/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:14:33 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212146 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Natalie Shea writes about this piece: Andrew Schultz begins his Magnificat setting not with an exultant shout of praise but almost hesitantly, the plainsong-like melody unfolding from the bare interval of a fourth like the petals of a flower. Once in bloom, however, the parts fall away again and the music returns to the purity of single lines. Despite the delicacy of the writing and the softness…

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]]> Wild Flower https://singscore.com.au/product/wild-flower/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 01:01:36 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212139 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Wild flower was commissioned by a Song Company subscriber as a gift for his seriously ill partner on a text he selected for performance by The Song Company. The work was composed in September 2006 and draws its text from the Old Testament prophet, Ezekiel. The youtube recording is for two pieces – Wild Flower and Adagio. …

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]]> Ekstasis https://singscore.com.au/product/ekstasis/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:42:25 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=212098 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ekstasis was composed in August 1990 for The Song Company and is a setting for six solo voices of a freely adapted passage from the conclusion of The Song of Songs. The eight lines used are erotic love poetry exploring the sensual territory at the border of love and pain, obsessive lust and spiritual transcendence. Yet whilst the text is direct and passionate it also has a classical and simple…

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]]> Love is Born https://singscore.com.au/product/love-is-born/ Fri, 13 Dec 2019 03:50:38 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211628 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Originally written for Echology; the University of Newcastle Chamber Choir, this piece takes the beautiful words of Leunig’s poem in an ecstatic setting. Love is Born live recording…

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]]> The Darkest Midnight https://singscore.com.au/product/the-darkest-midnight/ Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:06:44 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211622 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Originally written for the Song Company, this arrangement of the traditional English Christmas carol focuses on the cold in the dead of winter. The singers add percussive vocal and body sounds: stomping to keep their feet warm, blowing into their hands, rubbing them together in the freezing night air. Imagine a circle of singers around an outdoor brazier trying to keep warm through song.

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]]> O Sapientia https://singscore.com.au/product/o-sapientia/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 03:58:10 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211616 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Commissioned in 2003 by the Song Company, the O Antiphons, also known as The great Os are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions. They are referred to as the “O Antiphons” because the title of each one begins with the vocative particle “O”. Each antiphon is a name of Christ, one of his attributes mentioned in Scripture.

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]]> O Radix Jesse https://singscore.com.au/product/o-radix-jesse/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 03:48:49 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211614 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Commissioned in 2003 by the Song Company, the O Antiphons, also known as The great Os are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions. They are referred to as the “O Antiphons” because the title of each one begins with the vocative particle “O”. Each antiphon is a name of Christ, one of his attributes mentioned in Scripture.

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]]> O Oriens https://singscore.com.au/product/o-oriens/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 03:39:00 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211613 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150. Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Commissioned in 2003 by the Song Company, the O Antiphons, also known as The great Os are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions. They are referred to as the “O Antiphons” because the title of each one begins with the vocative particle “O”. Each antiphon is a name of Christ, one of his attributes mentioned in Scripture.

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]]> O Clavis David https://singscore.com.au/product/o-clavis-david/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 03:14:46 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211609 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Commissioned in 2003 by the Song Company, the O Antiphons, also known as The great Os are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions. They are referred to as the “O Antiphons” because the title of each one begins with the vocative particle “O”. Each antiphon is a name of Christ, one of his attributes mentioned in Scripture.

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]]> O Emmanuel https://singscore.com.au/product/o-emmanuel/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 01:58:17 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211603 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Commissioned in 2003 by the Song Company, the O Antiphons, also known as The great Os are Magnificat antiphons used at Vespers of the last seven days of Advent in Western Christian traditions. They are referred to as the “O Antiphons” because the title of each one begins with the vocative particle “O”. Each antiphon is a name of Christ, one of his attributes mentioned in Scripture.

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]]> Responsorio https://singscore.com.au/product/responsorio/ Mon, 18 Nov 2019 01:08:16 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211585 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> A challenging piece for mixed voices, Raf combines text by Dante with that of the Requiem mass. Features a tenor solo in addition to the SATB parts. Youtube video is by the Contemporary Singers, conducted by Antony Walker.

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]]> Oratio Dominica https://singscore.com.au/product/oratio-dominica/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 04:04:30 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211558 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ross writes: This piece is the last in the Mountain Chant trilogy: Oratio Dominica, The Lord’s Prayer, a profound documentation of the universal path to self-transformation and enlightenment. Fred Watson’s poem Mountain Chant, which provides the text of the central chorus, juxtaposes European and Celtic imagery associated with the Warrumbungles with the names of Dreaming sites of the indigenous…

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]]> Mountain Chant https://singscore.com.au/product/mountain-chant/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 03:49:45 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211557 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ross writes: On 27 June 1818 the explorer John Oxley became the first European to set eyes on the Warrumbungle mountains in north-eastern New South Wales. His journal reveals the deep impression made by this “most stupendous range of mountains, lifting their blue heads above the horizon”. Surely the peaks and bluffs reminded him of the spires and tors of his homeland after the “boundless desert”…

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]]> O Quam Preciosa https://singscore.com.au/product/o-quam-preciosa/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 03:12:44 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211556 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ross writes: O Quam Preciosa is the first in a collection of three works titled Mountain Chant. It is a setting in the original Latin by the 12th century Rhineland mystic, Hildegard von Bingen, whose startlingly fresh imagery of spiritual regeneration I found irresistible. Mountain Chant, composed at a time when Australia seems more than ever in need of spiritual regeneration…

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]]> Click Go the Shears https://singscore.com.au/product/click-go-the-shears/ Sun, 27 Oct 2019 10:13:40 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211501 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Adapted from this sea shanty where the sailors long for the bell to mark the end of their shift so that they can get down below deck before the storm hits, this folksong conveys a similar energy in the form of the shearing competition. It’s all speed and sound as the men eye each other and race to be the quickest! This piece was originally written for the Song Company in 2012 and is also…

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]]> Singing the Love https://singscore.com.au/product/singing-the-love/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:52:27 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211484 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ross writes: A dancing, swaying setting of the joyful Psalm 100 from the King James Bible gradually takes on attributes of traditional ritual chant seeking absorption into the unfathomable mystery of life. I think the Lord who is praised here (in all the lands) may be seen as a universal symbol of wholeness: of an all-embracing love capable of binding together and harmonising everything in the…

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]]> First Light https://singscore.com.au/product/first-light/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:28:36 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211483 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ruth writes: This song was written in honour of Australian composer Martin Wesley-Smith, with the pitches derived from the letters of his name (some transposition was necessary!) The song was performed for Martin by the Song Company in a concert held in Kangaroo Valley two months before his death, along with many of his compositions for voice. Martin died in September 2019.

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]]> Dance Mantra https://singscore.com.au/product/dance-mantra/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 03:23:23 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211389 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Ross writes: In 1992 I was one of several Australian composers invited by Richard Letts, then Director of the Australian Music Centre, to produce – at hair-raisingly short notice – a one page choral work whose score should be suitable for framing and presentation to a High Achiever in the propagation of Australian music. The presentation was to be made at a ceremony in Sydney which would include…

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]]> Flower Songs https://singscore.com.au/product/flower-songs/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 01:22:43 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211385 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.)  Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Flower Songs is a choral maninya (dance/chant). Its text consists of the scientific names (in Latin and ancient Greek) of a selection of central eastern Australian wild flowers. Ross writes: Jonathan Mills once summarised my attitude to word setting as being “averse to texts that are philosophical, psychological, dramatic or descriptive (and) only interested in ones that allow (him) to invoke some…

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]]> Inheritance https://singscore.com.au/product/inheritance/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 02:27:33 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211235 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> A ferocious and challenging song, this piece compares the spite within human nature to the wild energies of the sea. Think drunk, angry jazz song with vocal sound-effects and a sea theme and you’ll get the idea. Originally commissioned for the Song Company by Francis and Stephen Muecke, poet Douglas Muecke’s children. Text used by permission. Note: the audio demo plays pitches where there are…

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]]> Epitaph https://singscore.com.au/product/epitaph/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 04:13:39 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211213 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> With text by Australian poet Douglas Muecke, this beautiful piece is a tribute to a loved and respected family friend. As her ashes are tossed into the mountain air, Muecke’s text reflects on this woman’s nature. Originally commissioned for the Song Company by Douglas’ children, Frances and Stephen Muecke. Text used by permission.

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]]> Inner City Nocturne https://singscore.com.au/product/inner-city-nocturne/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:48:39 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211208 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir! (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians.]]> Set to a text by Australian poet Douglas Muecke, this is a challenging song about the inner drama of a couple sitting in their lounge room at night. The repetitive text and the static repeated notes give the sense that whilst a lot is happening in the city around them, for this couple nothing ever changes. Originally commissioned for the Song Company by Muecke’s children, Frances and Stephen.

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]]> Flower Chant https://singscore.com.au/product/flower-chant/ Fri, 31 May 2019 05:34:56 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=211174 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> Two interwoven, lively lines of Australian native flora. Irregular rhythms mean this pieces is suitable for advanced children or adult female voices. Flower Chant midi demo …

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]]> Skye Boat Song Lament https://singscore.com.au/product/skye-boat-song-lament/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:50:23 +0000 https://singscore.com.au?post_type=product&p=210923 Buy as many scores as you need for your choir (minimum 6). Hover your mouse over the grey box with 6 to increase the number to purchase more licences. (Contact SingScore for a quote for bulk purchases over $150.) Thank you for supporting Australian musicians!]]> This arrangement of the classic Scottish folk song was written for a music video as a protest against the Australian Government’s harsh treatment of refugees and asylum seekers who arrived by boat in Australian waters. The Latin text in the song refers to the concept of baptism, whereby the spiritual traveller goes through the waters of turmoil representing death to come to a place of safety and…

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