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"Down by the Riverside" (also known as "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" and "Gonna lay down my burden") is an African-American spiritual.Its roots date back to before the American Civil War, [1] though it was first published in 1918 in Plantation Melodies: A Collection of Modern, Popular and Old-time Negro-Songs of the Southland, Chicago, the Rodeheaver Company. [2]
The six motets consist of poems by British poets and a text from the Coverdale translation of the Psalter found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, set to music for unaccompanied choir. [1] "My soul, there is a country" Text by Henry Vaughan, set for SATB choir in G major "I know my soul hath power" Text by John Davies, set for SATB choir in B ...
cross-indexing of choral music using criteria including musical genre, period, and number and voicing of choral parts; composer information; description and performance considerations can be included for works; contents of collections of choral music; community discussion such as through "Talk" pages related to composers or specific works.
SATB/SATB" is used when a double choir is required, as in Penderecki's Polish Requiem. [6] or SSATB, with divided sopranos, is a typical scoring in English church music. [5]: 322 [7] A listing for Bach's Mass in B minor includes the maximum of SSATB soloists and SSAATTBB eight-part choir and also indicates that it contains choral movements for ...
He wrote over a hundred songs, a number of choral works and a small number of instrumental pieces. His general style has been summarised by his biographer Barry Smith as "an idiosyncratic harmonic language that comprise[s] an unusual mixture of Edwardiana, Delius , Van Dieren , Elizabethan and folk music, features that give his music a strongly ...
'The Music composed & dedicated to my sister Lucy' [66] The Poetry by Percival [67] MS 1872: Chantant: keyboard: piano solo — — MS 1872: Gloria: church: for choir and organ, arr. using the piano part of the Allegro from Violin Sonata in F, K.547 — — MS 1873: Credo: arrangement: choir and organ, themes from Symphonies V VII and IX
Fly Away I, for SATB chorus, premiered by the International Orange Chorale of San Francisco in June 2012. Partita for 8 Voices, four pieces for eight singers, written 2009–2011 for Roomful of Teeth, premiered as a whole on November 4, 2013, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music. [1]
A part song, part-song or partsong is a form of choral music that consists of a song to a secular or non-liturgical sacred text, [1] written or arranged for several vocal parts. Part songs are commonly sung by an SATB choir, but sometimes for an all-male or all-female ensemble. [ 2 ]