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Island Songs – Morning Tide |
New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details. An easy but effective strophic song emphasizing community. “Come my brother, come my friend, wait, wait in the deep”. This piece is also available in print as a part of the Island Songs set (available in SATB and SA voicings). The SATB version is for unaccompanied choir. The treble version has a piano accompaniment. (The musical example is for mixed voices)
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel |
New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link. Suitable for college or church choir. A strophic setting that builds to an exciting climax. Appropriate for Advent or Christmas use. This setting captures the sense of longing that can be found in the text.
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Crossing The Bar |
New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link. An evocative setting of Tennyson’s text. Suitable for high school, community and church choirs.
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And Loud We Sing And Long! |
New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link. This carol for Christmas manages to combine several opposing concepts. It mentions the traditional winter cold of Christmas and the summer heat which is part of the Australian Christmas experience. It also combines “scat” syllables in a style which is definitely Classical. This piece can be sung by any church or college ensemble which sings the standard repertoire of Christmas. Highly recommended!
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This Joyful Eastertide |
New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link. This is the ultimate in a flexible edition! Unison, SAA, TBB and SATB choirs can sing the music from this copy. Based on the old Dutch carol, McKinley’s accompaniment fairly bowls along in a quasi-Baroque style. An excellent addition to the sacred Easter repertoire for any choir. |
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Bird Songs – Morton Music Exclusive |
New Release – One of Stephen Leek’s exclusive digital releases directly through Morton Music – email admin@mortonmusic.com for details. Birds Songs, featuring Wild Black Crows, Night Birds and The Seagull are three short pieces for young voices and piano which capture the colours and quirky characters of the three birds. These pieces are ideal for upper primary level and offer challenges that will develop the choir and skills of the singers. |
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Three Carols |
New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link. Three simple carols for women’s or children’s choir using the medieval texts Terly Terlow, When Christ Was Born of Mary Free and I Sing of a Maiden. The recordings below feature the Brisbane Chamber Choir. (i) Terly Terlow The old English text discusses the shepherds and the music suggests the sound of shepherds’ pipes. (ii) When Christ was Born of Mary Free The second song of the three also discusses the shepherds and the song of the angels. (iii) I Sing of a Maiden This one page piece is a hauntingly beautiful setting of the medieval text. For the most part in two parts, it divides into three at the end. Highly recommended! |
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We Welcome Summer |
New to Morton Music – digital copies are now available from RSCM Music Direct (UK) via the Other Countries link. A wonderful piece which welcomes “the glorious blessing of light” asking us to “pour out our darkness into the glorious forgiving light”. Would suit a good college or church choir. It could also be used as an Epiphany anthem with a difference, since Epiphany appears in the middle of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
The recording is track number 08, from The Australian Voices’ CD, “The Listening Land”. Conducted by Graeme Morton.
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