Life works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, without meaning to, you can get a song or a jingle stuck in your head and end up singing or humming it for hours - or even days. On the other hand, when you are actively trying to learn a Poem, lyric, or a...

An SATB setting of Mary Elizabeth Coleridge's Poem "The Bluebird."

The Oxen Music: Richard Bullen Lyrics based on a Poem by Thomas Hardy US premiere Congregational Church of Batavia, IL

Gwyneth Walker's setting of ee cummings' Poem. Sung by Jubilate at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, July 2013.

Gladly present you a new publication, The "Nature" by Battista Pradal for female voices with Emily Dickinson’s text. Mr Pradal was member of jury in international composition and choral competitions and is artistic director of the well known meeti...

One of my earliest a cappella compositions composed when I was 22, the haunting and melancholic "Elegy of Anne Boleyn" based on an anonymous Poem I found in my local library in 1983, is now available at my website. I remember being very inspired by Debuss...

Poem by Filippo Sirotti (b.1967) In the time that doesn't want to pass, in my heart I feel a strength that pushes me to say: "us" And when the sun has gone, I look for you in the sky among the other stars. As my soul is with you in the sweet n...  morePoem by Filippo Sirotti (b.1967) In the time that doesn't want to pass, in my heart I feel a strength that pushes me to say: "us" And when the sun has gone, I look for you in the sky among the other stars. As my soul is with you in the sweet night, and feels happy waiting for you, because nowhere is far. Recorded by Matthew Curtis (ChoralTracks). To learn more about the composer, visit his personal Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/joshuabhimes  

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings Poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings Poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a Poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

A tender pastoral part song (or "glee") by William Paxton based on the Poem by Ambrose Philips.

for SATB Chorus unaccompanied Words by Mary Elizabeth Frye: Public Domain Music by Stanley M. Hoffman © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The Poem above is sometimes called “I Am” due to its repet...  morefor SATB Chorus unaccompanied Words by Mary Elizabeth Frye: Public Domain Music by Stanley M. Hoffman © Copyright 2018 by Stanley M. Hoffman. www.stanleymhoffman.com All rights reserved. The Poem above is sometimes called “I Am” due to its repetition of the phrase. Was the Poem inspired? The Hebrew name for God, YHWH, means “I am” or “I am that I am.” And there does seem to be something magical about the Poem, as it was written by a woman who, to our knowledge, had never written a Poem before. Mary Elizabeth Frye was an orphan with no formal education. In 1932 she and her husband hosted a young Jewish woman, Margaret Schwarzkopf, who was fleeing the Holocaust. When she received news that her mother had died in Germany, the heartbroken houseguest told Frye in despair that she had never had the chance to “stand by my mother’s grave and shed a tear.” Frye found herself composing the Poem above on a ripped-off section of a brown paper shopping bag. She said the words “just came to her.”  less