Choral Pieces - other composers

These are editions of pieces by other composers, all out of copyright (I hope!).

Weep you no more, sad fountains

words: John Dowland

music: Alan Barton

A setting of Dowland's words by my father.

Forces:	SATB
Duration:	about 2'00"
Length:	2 pages

Free download of the entire piece: PDF

Madrigal

words: Silvestre, tr. C&OB

music: Gabriel Fauré

Fauré’s op.35 setting of Armand Silvestre’s poem is not widely known but is lovely. Here is has only English words, translated by my wife and myself.

Forces:	SATB + piano
Duration:	about 4'20"
Length:	15 pages

Free download of the entire piece: PDF, Finale, MIDI

Kyrie (Mass in E)

words: Latin mass

music: Josef Rheinberger

The beautiful Kyrie from Rheinberger’s Mass in E, Misericordia Domini, op.192, 1899. A real hit with the Henbury Singers!

Forces:	SATB, organ
Duration:	about 3'10"
Length:	Full score: 6 pages, Chorus part: 4 pages, Organ score: 4 pages

Free download of the entire piece:
     Full score: PDF, MIDI
     Chorus part: PDF
     Organ score: PDF
     Complete: Finale

Credo (Playnsong masse for a Mene)

words: Latin mass

music: John Sheppard

Forces:	SATB
Duration:	about 4 minutes
Length:	5 pages

Free download of the entire piece: PDF, Finale, MIDI

Sheppard was at the Chapel Royal in the sixteenth century and composed several mass settings. This one is in a simple style, alternating plainsong with polyphonic choral sections.

The Morris Dance

words: trad.

music: Chas. Villiers Stanford

Free download of the entire piece: PDF, Finale, MIDI

Forces:	SATB
Duration:	about 2'10"
Length:	4 pages

I’ve not been able to find out when Stanford wrote this curious gem. Maybe the latest biography, published 2002 by OUP, throws some light on it.

Choral pieces by other composers

Agnus Dei (Jubelmesse)

words: Latin mass

music: Carl Maria von Weber

Free download of the entire piece:
     Full score: PDF, MIDI
     Chorus part: PDF
     Organ score: PDF
     Complete: Finale

Forces:	S and A solos, SATB, organ (originally orchestra)
Duration:	about 2'50"
Length:	Full score: 5 pages, Chorus part: 2 pages, Organ score: 3 pages

Weber’s Missa sancta No.2 in G, “Jubelmesse” (Mass of Rejoicing), was written for the golden wedding anniversary in 1819 of the King of Saxony at the court in Dresden. The radiant Agnus Dei is an alto solo, followed by a jaunty setting for solo soprano and choir of Dona nobis pacem.

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