Music Catalogue Category: Choral Works (secular)
Title | Audio Sample | PDF Sample | Link | Price |
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A Short History of the Pipe Organ
(2009) SATTBB a cappella. Commissioned by the Victoria Centre of the RCCO for Hexaphone, and first performed at the “Pipes Around the Pacific” Festival in July 2010. ca. 7 mins. |
$2.50 | |||
Aboard the Billyruffian
(2021) SATB + piano. A Sea Shanty, words by Gordon Shrimpton, which tells the story of a Welsh sailor aboard the HMS Bellerophon during the Battle of Trafalgar. Commissioned by Via Choralis Chamber Choir, Victoria BC. Duration ca. 3’00” |
PDF $2.00 (min. order 10 copies) | |||
As We Travel
(2019) 4-part, keyboard. An easy round based on a text by Albert Camus. Duration ca.3’00” |
PDF $1.50 (min. order 10 copies) | |||
Aurora
(2013) for women’s choir SA with divisi, without text. Duration ca. 4’15” |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Baiji Dolphin
(2021) SATB + piano. Winner of the 2021 Cantabile Sngers (Truro NS) composition competition, this is a setting of a poem by Susan Glickman from a set published in the July 2018 edition of Walrus Magazine as “Extinction Sonnets.” It concerns the myth of the Chinese River Dolphin (白鱀豚 “báijìtún” in Mandarin Chinese), probably the first dolphin species driven to extinction by humans. Duration ca. 4’20” |
PDF $2.50 (min. order 10 copies) | |||
Canción amazónica
(2016) for SATB, instruments (fl, cl, strings, percussion) & pre-recorded soundtrack. Duration ca. 19 mins. |
please enquire | |||
Carpe diem
(2017) for choir SATB a cappella. Texts Virgil (70-19 B.C.E.), Horace (65-27 B.C.E.), Anon. (ca. 1287), King Henry VIII, Henry W. Longfellow. Duration ca. 4’00” |
pdf $2.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Dawn Bends
(2023) SSAATTBB a cappella. Text by Zsuzsanna Ardó. Written for the international PlanetWoman project. Please contact the composer for a perusal score. Duration ca. 4’30” |
PDF $2.50 (min. order 10 copies) | |||
Dawn Horse at Dusk
(2023) SATB a cappella with divisi. Text by Zsuzsanna Ardó. Written for the international PlanetWoman project. Please contact the composer for a perusal score. Duration ca. 4’00” |
PDF $2.50 (min. order 10 copies) | |||
Drinking Song
(2007) SATB and (2008) SATTBB a cappella. Text by Hilaire Belloc. |
$1.75 | |||
Fine Knacks for Ladies
(2006) SATTBB a cappella. Written for Hexaphone, text anonymous ca. 1600. Duration ca. 3 mins. |
$2.00 | |||
Four French Carols
(2017) SATB with orchestra (2fl, ob, bsn, tpt, perc & strings). A medley of four traditional French Christmas carols (Il est né, Quittez pasteurs, Noël nouvelet, Les anges dans nos campagnes). Duration ca. 7’30”. Difficulty level: moderate. |
contact for details | |||
Four Limericks
SATTBarB a cappella and SATB with piano. (a) There Once Was a Man with a Beard, (b) There Once Was a Lady of Ealing, (c) There Once Was a Man of Antigua, (d) There Once Was a Lady of Ryde. |
$2.00 | |||
Four More Limericks
(2010) SATTBB a cappella. Following on from the success of the first set of Limericks, here are four more, written for Hexaphone. |
please enquire | |||
Hanacpachap Fantasy
(2015) SATB and strings (or piano). Duration ca. 3’00” |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Heaven Haven
(2015) SATB a cappella. A setting of the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Duration ca. 2 mins. |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Hold on to What Is Good
(2016) SATB a cappella, text Nancy Wood. Duration ca. 1’30” |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
How Ya Gonna Keep’em down on the Farm?
(2009) SATTBB a capella. An arrangement for Hexaphone of the original 1919 song by Young, Lewis & Donaldson. Ca. 4 mins. |
$2.00 | |||
I’s the B’y
(2005) SATTBB a capella. An arrangement for Hexaphone of the traditional Newfoundland folksong. Duration ca. 2’15” |
$2.00 | |||
If the Wind is West
(2005) SATTBB. Text by Stephen Scobie. Composed for Hexaphone. A cappella work for advanced vocal ensemble. |
CMC price $6.99 | |||
Indian Summer
(2009) unison & (2010) 2-part with piano. Text by Wilfred Campbell. Ca. 1’30” |
$3.00 - pdf download only | |||
Iroquois Song
(2006) SATB, SSAA quartet & piano. Text traditional, trans. Anna B. Jameson. Duration ca. 3’30” |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Isbjørn!
(2013, rev. 2017). Choirs SATB, SSAA + vocal quartet, piano & perc. |
full score $11.00, or $2.75 each mvt. | |||
La garza (The Heron)
(2015) SATB with piano (also available with string quartet). This is the 3rd movement from a larger work Canción amazónica. Text in Spanish, translated from Shipibo. Duration 4’00” |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Let Evening Come
(2011) SAB + piano. Text: Jane Kenyon from Collected Poems © 2005. |
$1.50 | |||
Migildi Magildi
(2019) SATB choir and piano. An arrangement of this popular Welsh folksong. Duration ca. 3’00” |
pdf $2.00 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Monteverde Toad
(2020) SATB a cappella. This is a setting of a poem by Susan Glickman from a set published in the July 2018 edition of Walrus Magazine as “Extinction Sonnets.” The Monteverde toad, or Golden toad, Incilius periglenes, is an extinct species of true toad that was once abundant in a small, high-altitude region north of the city of Monteverde in Costa Rica. It was endemic to the elfin cloud forest. Duration ca. 4 mins. |
PDF $2.50 (min. order 10 copies) | |||
Music, I Yield to Thee
(2013) 2-part with piano. Text: Henry van Dyke. |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Orion Vespers
(2017) for choir SATB + instrumental ensemble (fl, cl, hn, vn, va, vc, cb, pno). |
contact for details | |||
Out Beyond
(2015) SATB a cappella. Text Rumi (1207-1273). Duration ca. 2’00” |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
Pulsations
(2006) SATTBB + pre-recorded track. Text by Hélène Cazes (2005). Written for Hexaphone and first performed at Crystal Pool, Victoria BC. Ca. 4 mins. |
score $2 ea., track $5 | |||
Seulete Suy
(2012) SSAA with harmonium, viele or hurdy-gurdy (synfonie). Revised 2016 for choir SSAA a cappella. Text of Christine de Pisan from Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405). |
$2.50 | |||
Silver Penny
SATB and piano. Text by Walter de la Mare. Published by Cypress Choral Music. |
$2.75 | |||
Sonnet (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day)
(2011) SATB with piano. Text: William Shakespeare. Duration ca. 3’45” |
pdf $1.50 (minimum order 10 copies) | |||
The Dredger
(2016) SAB + piano. Also (2009) SATTBB a capella. Text: Charles T. Seymour (1867). This comic west coast song describes an event in the history of Victoria’s harbour. Originally written for Hexaphone. Duration ca. 3 mins. |
$2.00 | |||
The Microbe
2-part, piano |
$1.50 | |||
The Old Fool
(2009) SATTBB a cappella. An arrangement for Hexaphone of the traditional song. Ca. 5 mins. |
$2.50 | |||
The Squid-Jigging Ground
(2005) an SATTBB a cappella arrangement for Hexaphone of the original Newfoundland song by Arthur Scammell & Larry O’Gaff. Duration ca. 3 mins. |
$2.00 | |||
The Water Is Wide
(2010) SATB + piano. An arrangement of the popular British folksong, suitable for beginner to intermediate level choirs. Duration ca. 3 minutes. |
PDF $1.50 (min. order 10 copies) | |||
The Yak
Unison, keyboard. Text by Hilaire Belloc. |
$1.25 | |||
Un Canadien errant
(2005) SATTBB a capella. An arrangement for Hexaphone of the traditional song with text by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie. Ca. 5’30” |
$2.00 |