CHORAL / VOCAL MUSIC

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All texts in English unless otherwise noted

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SSA, SAB, etc.
Solo, Congregational, Misc.

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This Ravelled Dust: Cantata for a Nuclear Age (2009) for SATB choir, vocal soloists and chamber ensemble
Duration ca. 40:00
Text: Robin Muir-Miller, with selections from the Bible
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Dreaming in Darkness (2006)
for SATB choir
Duration 1:45
Text: Robinson McClellan
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Nunc Dimittis (2005)
for SATB choir with SATB soloists or semi-chorus
Duration 5:00
Text (in English and Latin): Luke 29-32
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Alleluia (2002 rev. 2005) 
for SATB choir - also available for str. quartet and str. orch.
Duration 5:00
Text: "Alleluia"
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They Worship Without Words (2009)
for SATB choir (or SA with low instruments)
Duration 6:00
Text: Robin Muir-Miller (for Epiphany)
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O Antiphons (2009) and Come Emmanuel
for SATB choir
Duration 12:00
Text: liturgical (for Advent)
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When Hafiz Sings (2009)
for SATB choir (or SSAA), 2 soloists, and percussion
Duration 5:00
Text: Hafiz, trans. R.W. Emerson
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Confession  (2002) 
for SATB choir
Duration 4:00
Text: Episcopal Book of Common Prayer
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The Passion According to Mark (2006)
for SATB choir
Duration ca. 25:00
Text: Gospel of Mark 14:32 - 15:47 (for Anglican use, year B)
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Lighten Our Darkness - Evensong Collect (2005) for SATB choir
Duration 1:30
Text: Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal Church USA)
Also available, with secular text, as Dreaming in Darkness

Sweetly Sleeping (2004)
a Christmas carol for SATB choir and recorder;
Text: Sara Teasdale

Yitzhak  (2001) 
a semi-dramatic work for 3 spoken voices, SATB choir or soloists, and contrabass or timpani
Duration 10:00
Text:  Genesis 22:1-10, trans. Everett Fox (Schocken Bible)

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Who is this King of Glory? (2007)
for three-part choir: 2 high voice parts, 1 low
Duration 2:00
Text: Psalm 24:7-10
(congregational version appears in Music by Heart)

Among the Signs (2003) 
for SAB choir
Duration 7:00
Text: Koran, Romans: 20-25, trans. Thomas Cleary 
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Noorun (2008) - arr. from Komitas' arr. of Syunetsi
for SAB choir and drone
Duration 2:00
Text (in Arabic): al-Ghazzali (11th century)
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They Worship Without Words (2009)
for SA with low instruments (or SATB choir - listed above)
Duration 6:00
Text: Robin Muir-Miller (for Epiphany)
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Gather Me (2009)
for male chorus and string orchestra
Text: W.B. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium

Farewell MacCrimmon (2006)
for three-part choir: SSA, SST, or SAB
Duration 3:00
Text: Ewart Alan Mackintosh
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Psalm 13 – Lament  (1997)  
for TBarB soloists or choir (also available for SSA)
Duration 4:00
Text (in Latin): Vulgate Bible
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The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish (2004)
for SSA soloists or choir
Duration 5:00
Text: Eavan Boland
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Prodigal Songs (2007)
for SSA soloists, 2 violins, and drone
Duration ca. 20:00
Text: Tess Taylor
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Benedicamus Song for St. Nicholas (2004)
for STB soloists or choir, with congregation
Duration 4:00
Text: a Medieval Latin sequence (in Latin)

Nativity Kontakion (2008-9)
for Greek Byzantine choir, soloists, string ensemble
Duration 25:00
Text: Romanos the Melodist
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Gaelic Sung Morning Prayer Service (2006)
Songs of Scottish Gaelic origin (in English) selected and arranged, along with newly composed songs, for weekly congregational prayer service
Duration 1/2 hour

Music by Heart (2008)
The "paperless hymnal" from Church Publishing, containing several 1, 2, and 3-part congregational songs by Robinson McClellan (buy / more info)

Crying Not for You (2007) - arr. trad. Gaelic song
for mezzo-soprano, violin, and organ drone
Duration 5:00 - 10:00 (number of verses variable)
Text: in English, adapted from the Gaelic by the composer
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George Bush's Notebook, 1779 (arr. 2006)
for bluegrass quartet (voice, gtr., mand., banjo, bass, cowbell)
Duration 8:00
Text: Capt. George Bush, 11th Pennsylvania Regiment
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Wait for it Everywhere  (2002)   
for 2 vocal trios  (SST, ATB)
Duration 7:00;
Texts:  Michel de Montaigne, trans. Screech
Martin Heidegger, trans. MacQuarry and Robinson

No Time Ago  (1996) 
for alto and bass soloists with organ drone
Duration 2:00
Text:  E.E. Cummings

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Lament for the Flowers (2008)
piobaireachd (pibroch) for Highland bagpipe
Duration 12:00
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Coraldan (2008)
memory study for harpischord, violin, and bass viol
Duration 10:00
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Flight of the Earls: Concerto for Uilleann Pipes (2007) for uilleann pipes and small orchestra: 1+picc.222/22/1perc/str
Duration ca. 20:00
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Beware the Sasannach! (2006)
for band / wind ensemble: 2+picc.2.3+Eb+bcl.2/442+btb.tba.eup/timp.4perc/cb
Duration ca. 9:00
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Gone Today (2006)
for orchestra: 2(pic)222/4221/timp.bd(opt).vib/pf(opt)/str
Duration ca. 7:30
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Organ Mass (2005)
for solo organ
Duration ca. 15:00
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Alleluia (arr. 2006) 
2 versions, for string quartet and string orchestra
arr. of the choral work of the same title (at left)
Duration ca. 5:00
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Three Pieces of a Girl (2005)
for flute, bassoon, viola, piano - in three movements;
Duration ca. 8:00
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An Unwholesome Episode (2005)
for marimba and double bass
Duration ca. 8:00

I got a kiss of the King's hand (2005)
for 3 oboes, english horn, and drone
Duration ca. 7:00
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Host of the Air (2003) 
for orchestra: 2+picc.22+bcl.2+cbn/422.btb.1/timp.2perc/pf/hp/str;
Duration ca. 8:00

Subway (2003) 
a semi-dramatic work for 2 spoken voices, violin, 2 trumpets, 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet), vibraphone, drum kit, and contrabass
Duration ca. 9:00; Text by the composer

SINGE – Song for String Quartet  (2002)
Duration ca. 7:00

Alone: Summer of '98 (1998) 
for flute solo
Duration ca. 4:00

Piece for Cello and Piano  (1998)
Duration ca. 6:00

Growing Pains  (1997) 
for clarinet in A, english horn, bassoon
Duration ca. 5:00

For Two and Canon  (1997)
for violin and cello -  two movements
Duration ca. 5:00