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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 ...
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).
Bach's chorale harmonisations are all for a four-part choir (SATB), but Riemenschneider's and Terry's collections contain one 5-part SSATB choral harmonisation (Welt, ade! ich bin dein müde, Riemenscheider No. 150, Terry No. 365), not actually by Bach, but used by Bach as the concluding chorale to cantata Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende, BWV 27.
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 ...
Op. 44, Spring Symphony for soloists, mixed choir, children's choir and orchestra, 1949; Op. 45, The Little Sweep, opera (libretto by Eric Crozier), 1949; Op. 46, A Wedding anthem Amo Ergo Sum for soprano, tenor, SATB and organ (words by Ronald Duncan), 1949; Op. 47, Five Flower Songs for SATB, 1950; Op. 48, Lachrymae for viola and piano, 1950
In the 17th century the repertoire was enriched with more choral and organ settings of the chorale tunes. By the end of the century a four-part setting for SATB voices had become the standard for the choral settings, while the congregational singing of chorales was tending towards monody with an instrumental accompaniment. The prolific creation ...
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 ...