Day: January 27, 2014

The Doubter

Byartsyhonker January 27, 2014 0 Comments
This is another piece I wrote for the Small Choirs Competition. Unusually, I've used my own text for this one. I had planned to set the text just as a hymn, but enjoyed employing a bit of retrograde and some changes to timing in order to turn it into a more interesting anthem. It's set for unison voices but there's no reason you couldn't swap things around even more by setting some for lower and...

Versicles and Responses

Byartsyhonker January 27, 2014 0 Comments
I wrote these for the Small Choirs International competition. It's a fairly standard Versicles and Responses for Anglican Evensong services -- but being set for SAB instead of SATB it might be more suitable for small choirs or those with few men. License for the music is CC BY-SA, as usual. The MIDI file is a bit odd in the timing in one or two places: making the reciting notes display...