Sacred & Religious Music

This second selection of studies by Frank DAccone, again based principally on the documentary evidence, follows the development through the mid 16t...

for soprano solo and SSATB unaccompanied Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee is a reflective and reverential setting of a text adapted from the Divine Office ...

For generations, religion and music have been regarded as universals, yet despite the fact that they have been frequently linked throughout history...

for SATB and organ Commissioned by the 2015 Three Choirs Festival, this is Chilcott's second setting of the Evening Canticles. Bright and rhythmica...

For generations, religion and music have been regarded as universals, yet despite the fact that they have been frequently linked throughout history...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in ...

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (History & Biography) New forms of worship have transformed the face of the American church over t...

Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. Yet, surprisingly, despite the significance of Re...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening ...

Margot E. Fasslers richly documented historywinner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown ...

for SATB and organ or small orchestra Christmas Lullaby was commissioned in 1989 by the Bach Choir in celebration of the seventieth birthday of its...

In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (18801949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his ...

To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birming...

for SATB and piano or with organ and optional harp This sequence of six carols explores the role of Mary in the Christmas story, focussing on her ...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for the 2009 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this beautiful ...

These four splendid anthems were composed for the coronation of George II in October 1727 and have since retained a position at the heart of the En...

for TTBB unaccompanied This lively reimagining of the traditional hymn is a thrilling a cappella arrangement which pairs the soaring legato melody...

for soloists, SATB, and organ Written for the Choir of Wells Cathedral, of which Matthew Owens is Organist and Master of the Choristers, this setti...

for SSAA and organ, and optional brass ensemble and timpani Commissioned by Benenden School, Make We Merry is an eight-movement piece which sets t...

for SATB and organ This hymn-anthem for Ascensiontide by Charles Wood, scored for SATB and organ, is a setting of a poem by A. P. Graves. It is ba...

for SATB and piano, or brass quintet, timpani, and organ Chilcott's four-movement setting of the Latin Gloria will be welcomed by choirs looking fo...

The Oxford Book of Funeral and Memorial Music for Organ is a collection of practical repertoire for organists playing at funerals, memorial service...

for SATB or unison voices and organ This joyous, celebratory introit sets well-known words from Psalm 95 and features appealing recitative-like mel...

for SATB (with divisions) and organ Set to Ursula Vaughan Williams's celebrated paean to the patron saint of music, this work is by turns joyous an...

for SSA and organ This concise Latin mass setting is entirely suitable for liturgical use, but the sharply delineated characters of the different m...

for SATB unaccompanied Setting a well-known Latin text from the Liber Usualis, Michael Austin Miller combines expressive harmony and flowing polyph...

for SATB and organ or piano Opening out from a lyrical exchange between unison lower and upper voices, As the bridegroom to his chosen is based aro...