• Samuel Barber
  • Complete Choral Music (revised edition)

  • G Schirmer Inc (World)
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  • chorus

Programme Note


Contents:
TWELVE ROUNDS
   •A Lament
   •To Electra
   •Farewell
   •Dirge
   •Not I
   •Of a Rose is Al Myn Song
   •Sunset
   •The Moon
   •Sun of the sleepless
   •The Throstle
   •Late, Late, So Late
   •When day is gone

   •The Moon (with piano accompaniment)

MOTETTO ON WORDS FROM THE BOOK OF JOB
   •Job 3:17-19
   •Job 5:1, 11:7-8. 5:7-8
   •Job 9:16-17

THE VIRGIN MARTYRS

LET DOWN THE BARS, O DEATH

GOD'S GRANDEUR

A STOPWATCH AND AN ORDNANCE MAP

REINCARNATIONS
   •Mary Hynes
   •Anthony O'Daly
   •The Coolin'

AD BIBINEM CUM ME ROGARET AD CENAM

TWO CHORUSES
   •Twelfth Night
   •To Be Sung on the Water

Choral Transcriptions and Arrangements by Barber
in chronological order of creation

AVE MARIA (Josquin de Prez)

UNDER THE WILLOW TREE

HEAVEN-HAVEN (A Nun Takes the Veil) (SATB)

HEAVEN-HAVEN (A Nun Takes the Veil) (SSAA)

HEAVEN-HAVEN (A Nun Takes the Veil) (TTBB)

SURE ON THIS SHINING NIGHT

EASTER CHORALE

THE MONK AND HIS CAT

AGNUS DEI

LAMB OF GOD

TWO CHORUSES FROM 'ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA'
   •On the Death of Antony
   •On the Death of Cleopatra

TO BE SUNG ON THE WATER (SSAA)

This collection includes choral works by Samuel Barber and choral transcriptions/arrangements made by Barber, including first editions of Twelve Rounds and Ad Bibinem cum me rogatet ad cenam. Arrangements by others of Barber choral pieces are not included in this collection. The following large choral works are available separately:

The Lovers
Prayers of Kirkegaard

Almost all of the pieces included in this collection are available separately (see More Info tab for links).

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