Absent Friends
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SATB (a cappella)
EMERSON CATALOG # EECH1052
A reflective musical toast to friends departed. Appropriate for reunions, home comings, memorial services, etc. "Come raise your voices high to honor absent friends . . . " Dedicated to Klark Black and the Silverado High School Concert Choir.
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Auld Lang Syne
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SATB (a cappella)
EMERSON CATALOG # 1061
A piquant treatment of the traditional tune, with a melancholy farewell to the old year. Play the audio file now.
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Baby Talks
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SATB and piano
What's really on baby's mind? "Wet! my diapers are wet! Not poopy -- not yet." Funny and heart warming lyrics from an observant father-and-grandfather. Click on the .pdf icon to laugh along with these charming lyrics.
Added March, 2010
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Lower Away!
TTBB (a cappella)
A brisk, energetic tune to pipe able-bodied seamen ashore after a long voyage. You'll be humming this one!
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Meeting at Night (from the poem by Robert Browing)
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SATB (a cappella)
Robert Browning's breathless poem of a lover's tryst set to beautiful music, "two hearts beating each to each."
For better high school and college choirs.
Added June, 2008.
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Rod's Comeuppance
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For Professor Rodney Eichenberger, the nation's preeminent choral conducting educator and innovator. Performed on the occasion of his 25th anniversary retreat at Canon Beach, Oregon.
For SATB chorus and piano (with appropriate attitude).
Rod is a kind, great-souled person; otherwise I couldn't get away with this. For more about Rod's annual choral conductors' retreats, click on ABOUT STEVEN. Rod's retreat guests are invited to submit their own additional verses (anonymously, if desired).
Added July 11, 2008. © 2008, Steven B. Glade
She is Mine
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TTBB and piano.
Also SSAA and piano.
Also SATB and piano ("For Better, For Worse")
A love song for Candy, my sweetheart and wife of 40-years. "My heart aches for a while, 'til I remember, she is mine." Written on Sunset Beach near Gearhart, OR, during Rod Eichenberger's 2009 Choral Conductor's Retreat.
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Added December, 2009 © 2009, Emerson Music Publishers, Inc. Click here to purchase this music from Emerson
String Quartet in d-minor, First Movement
allegro anima
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String Quartet in d-minor, Second Movement
andante cantando
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Added June 10, 2008 © 2006, Steven B. Glade
String Quartet in d-minor, Third Movement
andante sonoro
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String Quartet in g-minor, Second Movement
"Reminiscence"
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String Quartet in g-minor, Third Movement
"Clarion"
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Added June 10, 2008 © 2006, Steven B. Glade
Suo Gan
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SATB (a cappella)
EMERSON CATALOG # EECH1067
A sweet a cappella setting of this tender Welsh lullaby. Play the audio files now. If you'd like to get word when the sheet music becomes available, click on CONTACT and send the composer a message. © 2008, Emerson Music Publishers, Inc., used by permission
The Quality of Mercy, from The Merchant of Venice
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SATB (a cappella)
Portia's supernal advice is not strained, nor is this simple musical setting. Sweet counsel on morals and music. "We all do pray for mercy."
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The Shining City
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TBB (and piano or string orchestra)
EMERSON CATALOG # EECH1066
Ronald Reagan's farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office is set to beautiful and noble music. As the work progresses, voices representing Lincoln and Jefferson join with Reagan in polyphony. The piece ends with a question for every generation: "And how stands the City this winter night?" Play the audio files now. If you'd like to get word when the sheet music becomes available, click on CONTACT and send the composer a message. © 2009, Emerson Music Publishers, Inc., used by permission
Three Piano Studies - Study i
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The first of three piano studies. © 2009, Steven B. Glade
Voices of the Presidents, First Movement (Jefferson)
A patriotic concert piece in three movements.
From Jefferson's letter to Joseph Priestley, 1804.
For Baritone Soloist, with brass (or optional SATB chorus) and string orchestra.
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Voices of the Presidents, Second Movement (Lincoln)
A patriotic concert piece in three movements.
From Lincoln's farewell to his friends at the Springfield
rail platform, February 11, 1861.
For tenor soloist and string orchestra.
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Added June 10, 2008 © 2008, Steven B. Glade
Voices of the Presidents, Third Movement (Reagan)
A patriotic concert piece in three movements
"The Shining City," from Reagan's farewell to the nation from the Oval Office, January 11, 1989.
For two baritone soloists, one tenor soloist and string orchestra (with optional SATB chorus)
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Added June 10, 2008 © 2008, Steven B. Glade
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