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sight-reading, transposition, and improvisation David McCarthy 255 Varinna Drive Rochester, NY 14618 david@ davidmccarthymusic.com |
David McCarthyHere is where you can look at, listen to, and purchase church music for choir (SATB and 2-part mixed) and handbell choir (2-3 octaves) that I've written, either for my own church in Penfield, New York, or for commission. If you would like to order music, there are two payment choices: 1) If you'd prefer to pay by check through the mail, please email me the titles, along with the name, email address, and real-world address of the purchasing church or other institution. 2) If you'd prefer to pay by credit card, just use the "add to cart buttons" under each piece, and follow Paypal's instructions. In either case, I will email the sheet music in pdf form, with an invoice and license granting unlimited copies for the purchaser. For only $5-$10 per piece (with unlimited photocopying!), even factoring in the time slaving over the office's copier, it's a great way to stretch a budget.
The MIDI files will help your choir practice at home, which should save some rehearsal time. Some MIDI players (such as Anvil Studios, a free download) allow the user to adjust the volume, or change the sound, of individual tracks, emphasizing the one they're practicing.
I also have a choir-and-bells piece published by Paraclete Press, which you can see and hear here, and organ works published by Augsburg Fortress, in their Organ Library collection, and many small pieces in their "Introductions and Alternative Accompaniments for Organ" series. Please feel free to contact me about commissions!
If you like the idea of downloading choral music, this site, run by The Festival Singers in New Zealand, has a nice links list.
Most Recent Addition:Alleluia, Song of Gladness - Two-part mixed and keyboard - added January 2010 A rollicking setting, with alternating 6/8 and 4/4 measures, of John Mason Neale's translation of the Medieval Latin text. Epiphany/Easter/General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) Works Available OnlineSATBA Lenten Prayer - SATB with keyboard or handbell choir (2-3 octaves) accompaniment
A meditative piece. The accompaniment is mostly in slow running eighth notes, while the choir chants on some mildly dissonant (but easily sung) chords. Lent. $10 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) How Lovely Is Your House - SATB and organ - Bestseller!
This piece (a setting of the 84th Psalm) was a commission from Fairmount Presbyterian Church in Cleveland for their 90th anniversary. General/Building Dedication. $10 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) O Sacrum Convivium - SATB a cappella
A polyphonic piece in Renaissance style, commissioned for St. Mary's church, South Amboy, NJ. General/Communion. $10 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) Wayfaring Stranger - SATB and organ A setting of the Sacred Harp hymn, with the text (to a new tune) of "Traveller, Haste." Lent/General. $10 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) Two-Part MixedThese are mostly based on well-known hymns, and work well when your choir is missing a few people or needs something quick.
Adoro Te Devote - Soprano or C-instrument solo, two-part mixed, and piano A busy two-part texture (in English), with a pop-style piano accompaniment, is joined by a soprano or C instrument in half notes on the chant tune. Communion/General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) Alleluia, Song of Gladness - Two-part mixed and keyboard - added January 2010 A rollicking setting, with alternating 6/8 and 4/4 measures, of John Mason Neale's translation of the Medieval Latin text. Epiphany/Easter/General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) Be Thou My Vision - Two-part mixed and keyboard A setting of Slane, the well-known Irish tune, with its traditional words. Phrases of the hymn are interspersed with a ritornello idea, which plays with the choir for the last verse. General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) Come Away To The Skies - Two-part mixed, violin, and keyboard A setting of the traditional American folk hymn Middlebury. A catchy violin tune plays between verses, then accompanies the choir, leading to a big finish. Easter/Ascension/General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) A performance of this piece by the choir of the Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, NJ: Comfort, Comfort Ye My People - Two-part mixed and keyboard - added September 2009 A fun and rhythmic setting of Psalm 42, with a countermelody on the text "Rejoice, rejoice believers." Advent. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) How Firm A Foundation - Two-part mixed and piano/organ A progressively more elaborate ritornello separates the three verses. The final verse has the tune in canon with an inverted version of itself. General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) Take My Life - Two-part mixed, C instrument, and piano/organ The instrumental part at first alternates with the singers, then joins in with a descant on the final "amen." General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) What Star Is This? - Two-part mixed and piano/organ The piece builds through three verses on the tune Puer nobis, and while the men sing the fourth verse, the women join in with the hymn "How bright appears the morning star" (Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern). Both parts sing the conclusion of that hymn in a rousing fortissimo. Epiphany/Christmas. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file) | |
A medley of the tunes Salzburg, Victory, and Easter Hymn. AGEHR Level 2. Easter/General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file)
A setting of the traditional spiritual Sojourner, in a bluesy gospel style. There is some chromatic bell-switching involved, but nothing impossible! AGEHR Level 2+. Lent/General. $10 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file)
The tune "St. Columba" is set in a relaxed style at first, then in syncopation (with alternating 3/4 and 6/8 measures). Not too difficult, but pretty and fun! AGEHR Level 2+. General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file)
The tunes "St. Catherine," "Rhosymedre," and "Terra beata" ("Faith of our fathers," "Our Father by whose name," and "This is my Father's world") are set with some syncopations and counterpoint, separated by a refrain made up of fragments of the three tunes. AGEHR Level 2+. Father's Day/General. $5 for pdf master and photocopying rights. (score sample in pdf, practice midi file)