Choral Scores

Dennis Shrock is Director of Choral Activities at Texas Christian University and author of Choral Repertoire (Oxford University Press) and Performance Practices in the Classical Era (GIA).

Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; The Medieval Era ; 1. Gregorian chant - Salve regina ; 2. Hildegard von Bingen - O viridissima virga ; 3. Guillaume de Machaut - Messe de nostre dame (Kyrie) ; 4. Johannes Ciconia - Venecie, mundi splendor / Michael, qui Stena domus / Italie, mundicie ; 5. John Dunstable - Quam pulcra es ; The Renaissance Era ; France ; 6. Guillaume Dufay - Missa L'homme arme (Kyrie) ; 7. Josquin Desprez - Missa de beata virgine (Agnus Dei) ; 8. Clement Janequin - Au joli jeu ; 9. Claude Goudimel - Ainsi qu'on oit le cerf bruire ; 10. Claude Le Jeune - Amour cruel que pense tu ; 11. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Or sus, serviteurs du seigneur ; Italy ; 12. Philippe Verdelot - Italia mia ; 13. Jacques Arcadelt - Io dico che fra voi ; 14. Cipriano de Rore - Ancor che col partire ; 15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Tu es Petrus - Quodcumque ligaveris ; 16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Tu es Petrus (Kyrie) ; 17. Orazio Vecchi - Fa una canzona ; 18. Luca Marenzio - Leggiadre ninfe ; 19. Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi - Amor vittorioso ; 20. Giovanni Gabrieli - Hodie Christus natus est ; 21. Carlo Gesualdo - Resta di darmi noia ; Spain and the New World ; 22. Cristobal de Morales - Magnificat primi toni (Anima mea) ; 23. Francisco Guerrero - A un nino llorando ; 24. Tomas Luis de Victoria - Vere languores nostros ; Germany and Austria ; 25. Heinrich Isaac - Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen ; 26. Orlando di Lasso - Musica Dei donum optimi ; 27. Orlando di Lasso - Tutto lo di ; 28. Jacob Handl - Pater noster ; 29. Hans Leo Hassler - Dixit Maria ; 30. Michael Praetorius - Es ist ein Ros entsprungen ; 31. Melchior Franck - Meine Schwester, liebe Braut ; England ; 32. Thomas Tallis - If ye love me ; 33. William Byrd - Ave verum corpus ; 34. Thomas Morley - My bonny lass she smileth ; 35. John Dowland - Now, O now, I needs must part ; 36. Thomas Tomkins - O pray for the peace of Jerusalem ; 37. John Wilbye - Flora gave me fairest flowers ; 38. Thomas Weelkes - When David heard that Absalom was slain ; 39. Orlando Gibbons - Almighty and everlasting God ; The Baroque Era ; Italy ; 40. Claudio Monteverdi - Confitebor secondo ; 41. Claudio Monteverdi - Sfogava con le stelle ; 42. Giacomo Carissimi - Jonas (Peccavimus Domine) ; 43. Alessandro Scarlatti - Messa di S Cecilia (Sanctus) ; 44. Antonio Lotti - Crucifixus ; 45. Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria RV589 (Et in terra pax) ; France ; 46. Marc-Antoine Charpentier - In nativitatem Domini canticum H314 ; 47. Michel-Richard de Lalande - Super flumina Babylonis ; (Hymnum cantate nobis) ; Germany ; 48. Heinrich Schutz - Musikalische Exequien ; (Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe) ; 49. Samuel Scheidt - Angelus ad pastores ait SSWV13 ; 50. Dietrich Buxtehude - Das neugebor'ne Kindelein BuxWV13 ; 51. Johann Ludwig Bach - Das ist meine Freude ; 52. Georg Philipp Telemann - Uns ist ein Kind geboren TVWV1:1451 (Movement 1) ; 53a. Johann Sebastian Bach - B Minor Mass (Et incarnatus est) ; 53b. Johann Sebastian Bach - B Minor Mass (Crucifixus) ; 53c. Johann Sebastian Bach - B Minor Mass (Et resurrexit) ; 54a. Johann Sebastian Bach - Passio secundum Johannen (Ruht wohl) ; 54b. Johann Sebastian Bach - Passio secundum Johannen ; (Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein) ; England ; 55. John Blow - Salvator mundi ; 56. Henry Purcell - Remember not, Lord, our offences ; 57. George Frideric Handel - Saul (How excellent thy name, O Lord) ; 58. Maurice Greene - Lord, let me know mine end ; Spain and the New World ; 59. Juan Gutierrez de Padilla - Versa est in luctum ; 60. Ignacio Jerusalem - Responsorio sequndo de SS Jose ; The Classical Era ; Austria and Germany ; 61. Joseph Haydn - The Creation (Achieved is the glorious work) ; 62. Michael Haydn - Salve regina MH634 ; 63. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem (Lacrimosa) ; 64. Franz Schubert - Die Nacht ; Italy ; 65. Luigi Cherubini - Requiem in C Minor (Graduale) ; 66. Gioachino Rossini - Stabat mater (Introduzione) ; The United States ; 67. William Billings - Chester ; The Romantic Era ; France ; 68. Hector Berlioz - La damnation de Faust (Apotheose de Marguerite) ; 69. Camille Saint-Saens - Calme des nuits ; 70. Gabriel Faure - Requiem (Agnus Dei) ; Italy ; 71. Giuseppe Verdi - Messa da Requiem (Sanctus) ; Austria and Germany ; 72. Ludwig van Beethoven - Mass in C Major op.86 (Kyrie) ; 73. Felix Mendelssohn - Elias (Siehe, der Huter Israels) ; Elijah (He, watching over Israel) ; 74. Robert Schumann - Minnespiel op.101 (So wahr die Sonne scheinet) ; 75. Franz Liszt - Ave verum ; 76. Anton Bruckner - Os justi ; 77. Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem (Selig sind, die da Leid tragen) ; 78. Johannes Brahms - Waldesnacht, du wunderkuhle ; 79. Joseph Rheinberger - Abendlied op.69 no.3 ; 80. Antonin Dvo?ak -V p?irod? (Napadly pisn? v dusi mou) ; Russia ; 81. Anton Arensky - Otche nash ; 82. Aleksandr Grechaninov - Svete tihiy ; 83. Pavel Chesnokov - Duh tvoy blagiy ; 84. Serge Rachmaninoff - Vsenoshchnoye bdeniye (Bogoroditse devo) ; England ; 85. Hubert Parry - Songs of Farewell (My soul, there is a country) ; 86. Charles Villiers Stanford - Beati quorum via ; 87. Edward Elgar - As torrents in summer ; The United States ; 88. Lowell Mason - Nearer, my God, to thee ; 89. Edward MacDowell - The brook ; 90. Amy Beach - Three Shakespeare Choruses ; (Through the house give glimmering light) ; The Modern Era ; France and Switzerland ; 91. Claude Debussy - Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans ; (Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder) ; 92. Maurice Ravel - Trois Chansons (Nicolette) ; 93. Frank Martin - Mass (Agnus Dei) ; 94. Arthur Honegger - Le roi David (La mort de David) ; 95. Lili Boulanger - Vieille Priere bouddhique ; 96. Francis Poulenc - Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel ; (Hodie Christus natus est) ; 97. Maurice Durufle - Requiem (In paradisum) ; Austria and Germany ; 98. Arnold Schoenberg - Vier Stucke op.27 (Unentrinnbar) ; 99. Anton Webern - Entflieht auf leichten Kahnen ; 100. Paul Hindemith - Six Chansons (La biche) ; 101. Hugo Distler - Lobe den Herren op.6, I, no.2 ; Italy and Spain ; 102. Pablo Casals - O vos omnes ; 103. Luigi Dallapiccola - Sei cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane ; (Il coro delle malmaritate) ; Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic ; 104. Bela Bartok - Styri slovenske piesne (Na holi) ; 105. Zoltan Kodaly - Missa brevis (Kyrie) ; 106. Krzysztof Penderecki - Passio et mors domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam (Final scene) ; Russia and Estonia ; 107. Igor Stravinsky - Mass (Gloria) ; 108. Sergey Prokofiev - Aleksandr Nevsky (Aleksandr's Entry in Pskov) ; 109. Veljo Tormis - Laulusild ; 110. Arvo Part - Berliner Messe (Kyrie) ; Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland ; 111. Jean Sibelius - Finlandia ; 112. Einojuhani Rautavaara - Suite de Lorca (Cancion de jinete) ; 113. Per Norgard - I hear the rain ; England ; 114. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Five English Folk Songs (The dark-eyed sailor) ; 115. Gustav Holst - Lullay my liking ; 116. Herbert Howells - Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks ; 117. William Walton - Set me as a seal upon thine heart ; 118. Michael Tippett - A Child of Our Time (Deep River) ; 119. Benjamin Britten - A Ceremony of Carols (Wolcum Yole) ; 120. Thea Musgrave - On the Underground Set 1 (Benediction) ; 121. John Tavener - Hymn to the Mother of God ; The United States ; 122. Charles Ives - Three Harvest Home Chorales (Harvest Home #1) ; 123. Randall Thompson - The Peaceable Kingdom ; (The paper reeds by the brooks) ; 124. Vincent Persichetti - Flower Songs (Spouting Violets) ; 125. Daniel Pinkham - Four Elegies (At the round earths imagin'd corners) ; 126. Ned Rorem - Four Madrigals (Love) ; 127. Dominick Argento - Peter Quince at the Clavier (Movement IV) ; 128. Morten Lauridsen - Madrigali (Amor, io sento l'alma) ; 129. Eric Whitacre - Water Night ; Notes and Translations ; Genres ; Sources and Permissions ; Composer Index