REPERTOIRE

REPERTOIRE

Listed below are choral/vocal and instrumental works which we think are particularly interesting, creative, beautiful and/or noteworthy. Many of the compositions listed are those of composers and performing artists posted on the CANTATICA LINKS pages, and/or have been performed on recent CANTATICA Chamber Ensemble concerts. Included are of a wide range of musical styles including classical, alternative, experimental, jazz, traditional and roots - some with sample scores to review. Please check back from time to time as we continue to add new music.

We invite recommendations of works for inclusion on the CANTATICA repertoire list. Suggestions should be submitted to CANTATICA@hotmail.com.

CHORAL/VOCAL MUSIC

with and without instruments

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UNTRAVELLED WORLDS

Paul Halley

SSA or SATB, Organ, Piano, Violin, Bass and Percussion

Pelagos Music

Duration: 6:15

EVEN SUCH IS TIME

Bob Chilcott

SATB divisi

Novello

Duration: 2:30

O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM

Gerald Custer

SSAATTBB, Soli and Harp

GIA Publications, Inc. G-7093

A YEATS TRYPTICH

Innisfree

The Fiddler of Dooney

Farewell

Gerald Custer

SATB and Piano

GIA Publications, Inc. G-7002/7003/7004

THE FAR COUNTRY - Voice and Piano

John Jeffreys

High Voice and Piano

Roberton Publications 1076

"Dixie" from FACES OF LOVE - Book II

Jake Heggie

Mezzo-Soprano and Piano

Associated Music Publishers/Hal Leonard

"My True Love Hath My Heart" from FACES OF LOVE - Book III

Jake Heggie

Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Cello and Piano

Associated Music Publishers/Hal Leonard

THE SALLEY GARDENS - Voice and Piano

John Jeffreys

Roberton Publications

SIX WELSH FOLK-SONGS

Traditional Welsh/Arr. Alun Hoddinott

Oxford University Press OSS644

High Voice and Piano

SIR CHRISTEMAS

A Sequence of Carols for Three Upper Voices and Instrumental Insemble

Derek Holman

SSA, Soloists, Flute, Cello, Harp, Piano and Percussion (One Player)

Novello and Company, 1990

Duration: Approx. 23:00

1. Proface, welcome!

2. Sir Christemas

3. The Wassail

4. Omnes gentes plaudite

5. Here comes holly

6. Ivy, chief of trees

7. Nay, Ivy, Nay

8. Now have good day!

Recording:

CHILD OF GRACE

Elecktra Women's Choir

Skylark Music 2003

#7775840301

THE BEST-BELOVED

I - Psalm 63

II - Holy Sonnet

III - My Thoughts Hold Mortal Strife

IV - My Beloved Is Mine, and I Am His

Chris DeBlasio

SATB, Soprano and String Quartet

CANTOS DEL TUCUMAN

I - Yo naci en el valle

II - Solita su aima

III - Vidita, Vidala

IV - Algarrobo, Algarrobal

V - Danza Del Trigo

VI - Triste Pampeano

Alberto Ginastera

Soprano, violin, flute, harp and percussion

Ruth

Paul Ayres

SSATB with semi-chorus SSATB

Duration: 4:30

TEXT

And Ruth said, I will go wherever you go and live wherever you live.

Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

I will die where you die and will be buried there. (Ruth 1, 16-17)
There are three things that amaze me - no, four things I do not understand:

how an eagle glides through the sky,

how a snake slithers on a rock,

how a ship navigates the ocean,

how a man loves a woman. (Proverbs 30, 18-19)
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to know! (Psalms 139, 6)

VIEW SCORE - PAGES 1-6

LISTEN TO RECORDING BY CONSPIRARE

FIVE SEA SONGS FROM NEWFOUNDLAND

Lukey's Boat

The Banks of the Newfoundland

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

The Maid and the Shore

The Green Bushes

Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor

Traditional Newfoundland

Freely adapted and arranged by D.F. Cook (Canada)

Voice, Clarinet and Piano

Mi'kmaq Honour Song

Traditional Chant

Arranged by Lydia Adams (Canada)

Treble Voices, Bird and Animals Calls, and Drum

McGroarty Music Publishing, Canada

SONG OF THE LIGHTS, SET I

Song of the Stars

The Sower

The Sun Is a Luminous Shield

Daybreak Song

Imant Raminsh (Canada)

SSAA, Strings, Glockenspiel and Flute (or Piano)

Boosey & Hawkes, Inc.

Bartok #148

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1
From Bela Bartok's "Mikrokosmos" Piano Works, Vol. 6, #148

Arranged by Moira Smiley

SSAT, Clarinet, Cello and Conga

Moira Smiley

Dance with S'loyfn, S'yogn:

Vocal Dance and Yiddish Song

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

Vocal dance piece by Moira Smiley &
"S'lofyn, S'yogn" arranged by Moira Smiley (USA)

SSAT, Cello and Conga

Moira Smiley

A Sto Cemo:

Serbo-Croatian Urban folksong

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

Female duet, SSAT, cello and banjo/guitar/accordian

Moira Smiley

House That Jack Built

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

Female duet, cello and banjo

Moira Smiley

Ani Ma'amin

Traditional Jewish Song

Arranged by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory (USA)

Treble Voice/Voices, Violin and Piano

earthsongs

CONTINUUM

Breaths

We Are

Inner Voices

Fulani Chant

Ella's Song

Sometime

Sweet Honey in the Rock (USA)

SSAATB

Hal Leonard Corporation

Bonita Rama de Sauce

Carlos Guastavino (Argentina)

Voice and Piano

Editorial LAGOS, Buenos Aires

Quien Fuera Como El Jazmin . . .

Carlos Guastavino (Argentina)

SATB and Piano

Ricordi Americana S. A. E. C., Bueno Aires/Neil A. Kjos Music Company Ed. 8912

Ich will dir ein Freudenopfer thun

Johann Friederich Peter (Germany/USA)

Edited by Nola Reed Knouse

SSTB, Chamber Orchestra and Organ

Moravian Music Foundation

Ich will immer harren

Johann Friederich Peter (Germany/USA)

Edited by Nola Reed Knouse

Soprano, String and Organ

Moravian Music Foundation

Mein Herz dichtet ein feines Lied

Jeremiah Dencke (Germany/USA)

Edited by Nola Reed Knouse

SATB, Chamber Orchestra and Organ

Moravian Music Foundation

NOCTURNES

I - Sa Nuit d' Ete

II - Soneto de la Noche

III - Sure on This Shining Night

Morten Lauridsen

SATB a cappella (II) and with piano (I, III)

DEAR YOUTH:

Song Cycle for Soprano, Flute and Piano

"The Lord Knows"

"O, for Such a Dream"

Daron Aric Hagen (USA)

E. C. Schirmer Music Company Inc. No. 4677

Requiem

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

Eliza Gilkyson (USA)

Arranged by Craig Hjelle Johnson

SATB and Piano

Craig Hjelle Johnson/Conspirare

LISTEN TO RECORDING BY CONSPIRARE

She Weeps Over Rahoon

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

Eric Whitacre (USA)

SSA, Piano and English Horn

Walton Music Corporation

THREE IRISH COUNTRY SONGS (SONGS WITH VIOLIN)

I know my love

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

I know where I'm goin'

As I was goin' to Ballynure

Traditional Irish (Antrim)

Arranged by Rebecca Clarke

Oxford University Press

(SONG ALBUM)

Shy One

The Clothes of Heaven

Down by the Sally Gardens

June Twilight

Rebecca Clarke (England)

Medium-Voice and Piano

Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.

NORTH COUNTRY SONGS

Captain Bover

Bonny at Morn

Derwentwater's Farewell

Adam Buckham-O!

Traditional

Arranged by Malcom Williamson (Australia/England)

Low Voice (Baritone), SATB and Piano or Low Voice and Piano

Josef Weinberger Ltd. London (SATB version - out of print)

Responsorial: Codhaim go Suan id' Chroi

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

Michael McGlynn (Ireland)

Soprano, SATB, Harp and Violin

Warner Chapell Music, UK/Michael McGlynn

Eiri na Greine/The Rising of the Sun

Michael McGlynn (Ireland)

Female Voice, SATB, Violin, Pipes and Percussion

Michael McGlynn

Shivna

Bill Whelan (Ireland)

SSAATTBB, Keyboard and Percussion

McGuiness/Whelan Musc

Distributed by Shawnee Press, Inc.

Famine Lament

Traditional Irish Folk Songs

Arranged by David Mooney (Ireland)

SA, Violin and Harp

E. C. Schirmer Music Company No. 6016

Quanta, Qualia

Patrick Hawes (England)

Soprano, SATB and Chamber orchestra

SONGS OF SANCTUARY

Adiemus

Tintinnabulum

Cantus inequalis

Cantus insolitus

In caelum fero

Antus iteratus

Amate Adea

Kayama

Hymn

Karl Jenkins (Wales/USA)

SSAA, Recorder (or Flute), Strings and Percussion

Boosey & Hawkes/Hal Leonard Corporation

Honour the Earth as Your Mother

Sarah Hopkins (Australia)

SA/SATB, Keyboard, Percussion and optional Didgeridoo

Music for the Soul-Sarah Hopkins

MISSA GAIA (MASS OF THE EARTH)

Introit: Within the Circles of Our Lives

Kyrie: Mother, Sister, Blessed, Honored

Gloria: Pied Beauty

Credo: Speak to the Earth and I Shall Teach Thee

Libby Larsen (USA)

SATB, String Quartet, Oboe, 4-Hand Piano and Percussion

ECS Publishing Company #4807

We'll Never Grow Old

James C. More (USA)

SSAA

Anonymous 4 LLC

Merrick

The Sothern Harmony, 1835 (USA)

Arranged by Marsha Grenensky and Susan Hellauer

SSAA, Guitar, Vioin and Cello

Anonymous 4 LLC

Home (Va Pensiero)

Guiseppe Verdi
Arranged by Paul Schwartz (England/USA)

Voice, Harp and Strings

Paul Schwartz

Gloria Patri

VIEW SCORE - PAGE 1

Paul Schwartz (England/USA)

SSATB, Strings and Percussion

Paul Schwartz

To the Mothers in Brazil: Salve Regina

Lars Jansson (Norway)

Freely arranged by Gunnar Eriksson (Norway)

SSSAAATTTBBB and Percussion

Walton Music Corporation WW1384/Hal Leonard Corporation HL08501635

Dios Itlazo nantzine

Hernando Franco (16th Century Mexico)

SATB, Instruments and Percussion

World Library Publications 12712

December Stillness

Paul Fetler (USA)

SATB divisi, Flute and Harp

Walton Music Corporation WDW 1010

O Viridisima Virga

Janika Vandervelde (USA)

SATB, Amplified Tablas, Castenet and Woodblock

earthsongs

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

without voices

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OUTER HEBRIDES:

A Fantasia on Three Traditional Celtic Melodies

Paul Halley

Solo Organ

Pelagos PEL 4003

Duration: 7:00

WEDDING MADRIGAL, Op. 56

Kirke Mechem

Flute and Piano

G. Schirmer, Inc. ED3997

Duration: 3:00

ELEVEN PIECES FROM "MESSAGE OF THE SEA"

The Bucks of Oranmore

Cherish the Ladies

Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife

Spatter the Dew

Kildare Fancy

Skye Boat Song

Loch Leven Castle

The Bonnie, Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomand

Whiskey Your the Devil

The Fair Haired Boy and Three Little Drummers

The Deil Amang the Tailors

Traditional Irish and Scottish/Arr. David Russell

Solo Guitar

Les Editions Doberman-Yppan DO430

CELTIC CIRCLES:

A Musical Picture through Time

Joining Cycles of Heaven and Earth with Cycles of Everyday Life

Traditional Scottish and Newly Composed Compositions/Bonnie Rideout

Fiddle and Accompanying Instruments ad. lib.

Mel Bay Publications, Inc. MB95572

LIMEROCK - Violin and CelloMark O'Connor