Pour Choeur Mixte A Cappella
pour 3 voix d’enfants
This mass setting, with texts in both Latin and English (Book of Common Prayer), is typical of the composer’s style: musically sophisticated, with motivic solo lines and a great deal of chromaticism and continual time changes. Vocal range: C4-Gb5 (opt. A5).
Settings words from part of a letter by Edna St Vincent Millay to her lover Arthur Davison Ficke, this is a gentle, charming piece that celebrates our freedom to love. Dacey’s rich harmonies and quirky melodies are presented in a rocking 5/8 time signature, and conclude softly with the central message as the phrase you […]
It was a privilege and an honour to be invited to write the Raymond Brock Memorial Commission for the ACDA National Conference in Dallas in 2021. I was asked to write something that embraced certain aspects of diversity: a rich, beautiful, and complex subject. I asked a brilliant young poet, Delphine Chalmers, to come on […]
Sarah Quartel: God with me (SATB) This a beautiful and meditative setting of a translated text from Carmina Gadelica, a collection of Gaelic hymns, prayers, and other texts. With gentle suspensions and exquisite harmonies, this anthem by Quartel is warm, refreshing, and uplifting, perfectly demonstrating her signature style.
Giovanii da Palastrina: Salvator Mundi (SATB) This work by Palestrina is both deeply reflective and notable for its warm mellifluous texture that ponders on series of long, held notes
Grounded and powerful, this work rises and falls with tuneful motifs shared between upper and lower voices
SATB a Cappella
A surging choral work with distinct punctuated vocal lines, often with a leading tenor part.