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The Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL), also known as the ChoralWiki, is an online database for choral and vocal music. Its contents primarily include sheet music in the public domain or otherwise freely available for printing and performing (such as via permission from the copyright holder).
Five Childhood Lyrics is a choral composition by John Rutter, who set five texts, poems and nursery rhymes, for mixed voices (SATB with some divisi) a cappella. [1] Rutter composed the work for the London Concord Singers who first performed them in 1973. [2] The five movements are: [2] Monday's Child; The Owl and the Pussycat; Windy Nights
Three Shakespeare Songs is a piece of classical choral music written for an a cappella SATB choir. It was written in 1951 by the British classical composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. The work comprises three short pieces which are settings of text from two plays by the English playwright William Shakespeare. It is published by Oxford University Press.
An Anglican choir typically uses "SATB" voices (soprano or treble, alto or counter-tenor, tenor, and bass), though in many works some or all of these voices are divided into two for part or all of the piece; in this case the two halves of the choir (one on each side of the aisle) are traditionally named decani and cantoris which sing ...
Hymn to St Peter (Op. 56a) is a cantata for treble soloist, SATB choir and organ composed by Benjamin Britten in 1955. The piece was the last Britten composed before he first travelled to Asia. He set the text from the gradual of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul to music which was based on the plainsong of the Alleluia from the hymn. The ...
Ode to Music (1973), for SATB choir, SATB echo choir and orchestra; Symphony No. 3 – The Icy Mirror (1973), for soprano, mezzo-soprano and two baritone soli, SATB choir and orchestra; The World at the Manger (1973), Christmas cantata for soprano and baritone soli, SATB choir and organ/piano duet; Communion Hallelujas (1974–75), for SATB ...
Mass of the Children exists in three different instrumentations, with all versions are for adult mixed (SATB) choir, children's choir (SSA), baritone and soprano soloists. The first version is for full orchestra, the second for chamber ensemble and organ [ 1 ] and the third for concert band with optional vocals. [ 2 ]
Benedicite is a composition for choir, children's choir and orchestra by Andrew Carter. He set the hymn Benedicite from the Book of Common Prayer, and additional free texts based on the model in three movements for unison children's choir. The work was published in 1991 and dedicated to Andrew Fairbairns.