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Looking for repertoire for a special concert focussing on environmental challenges? ICB gathered ideas from all over the world. You can find many more by entering appropriate keywords into the MUSICA database: www.musicanet.org.

 

AFRICA

 

ASIA

  • Japan
    • Ko Matsushita/Shuntaro Tanikawa: Sora ni Kotori ga Inakunatta Hi (When the skies lost small birds). SATB + Piano. (from Songbook: Each of Us). Edition KAWAI

    • Takatomi Nobunaga/ Toshiko Takada: Yuuyake (Sunset). SATB + Piano. A song praying for peace. Don‘t let the red of the sunset turn into fire and blood by war. (from Songbook: Yuuyake). Edition KAWAI

    • Franca Sciuto/ Yayoi Sato/Shin-ichiro Ikebe: This is the world of Harmony between Mankind and Nature that I wish to hand down to our children. Female chorus. Edition KAWAI.
    • Ryoichi Wago/ Tokuhide Niimi: Heiwa-no Ki-no Kage-wo (A Shade of a Peace Tree) (< I’m Just Humming a Tune). Female chorus + piano. Ongaku-No-Tomo Sha Corp.
  • Philippines
    • Ruben Federizon: Gabaq-An. SATB div. + finger bells + bamboo buzzers. A Major Music Publishing.
    • Ruben Federizon: Tinig ng Lupa. SATB div. + percussions. A Major Music Publishing.
  • Singapore
    • Toh Xin Long: The Cloud. SATB divisi. Gentry Publications.
    • Gerald Tan (Arr.): Di Tanjong Katong (At The Turtle Cape). SA. Muzisea.
    • Zechariah Goh: Heart of Pines. SATB. Self-published: zechgoh@yahoo.com
  • Inner Mongolia
    • Se Enkhbayar/Nasun: Zeregleent Gobi (Mirage on the Gobi Desert). SSAATTBB. earthsongs.

 

EUROPE

  • Estonia
    • Tõnis Mägi: Las jääda ükski mets (Let There Be One Forest). Choral version by Tõnis Kõrvits in 2001. Published by Estonian Song And Dance Celebration Foundation.
    • Rein Rannap/Wimberg: Lahke loodus (Kind Nature). 2021, not published yet.
    • Veljo Tormis/Hando Runnel: Virumaa ja Pandivere (Virumaa and Pandivere). SP Muusikaprojekt.
  • Finland
    • Reijo Kekkonen/trad.: Gebet des Waldes. Male choir. SULASOL.
    • Olli Kortekanga: 7 songs for planet Earth. Solo MezBar + SATB + cildren’s choir + orch. Fennica Gehrman.
    • Kuusisto/Raevaara: Puhun sinulle metsästä (I talk to you about forest). SATB + S solo. SULASOL.
    • Sanna Kuusisto: Yön hetki. Moment of the night. Mixed choir. SULASOL
    • Jaakko Mäntyjärvi/text from the Exeter book (10th century): The Seafarer. Mixed choir. SULASOL
    • David Hamilton/Mary Anne Clark: The Arctic Tern’s Prayer. Female choir + Soundscape. SULASOL
    • Heikki Sarmanto/Aina Swan Cutler: Song of Extinct Birds. Female choir + jazz trio. SULASOL
    • Riikka Talvitie: Pinnan alla (Underneath the water). Mixed choir, AT solo, trumpet and horn. SULASOL.
  • France
    • Dominique Baduel: Ma copine Gaïa. Children’s choir S. French. Editions A Cœur Joie.
    • Daniel Bonnet: De natura rerum canticum. SSA. Latin/French or Latin/English. Editions A Cœur Joie.
    • Benoît Menut/Macha Lemaître: À Marée Basse… Children‘s choir + piano. Editions musicales Artchipel.
    • Benoît Menut/Xavier Grall: Allez dire à la ville. Mixed choir. Not yet published. www.benoitmenut.com
  • Greece
    • Theodore Antoniou: Thalassa tou Proiou (ΘάλασΘάλασσα του πρωϊού) (morning sea). SATB a cappella. AUTH Archive Collections.
    • Manos Hatzidakis: Thalassa Plateia (Θάλασσα πλατεία), wide sea. SSA. ISMN 979-0-69151-751-2 Editions Papagregpriou Nakas. www.panasmusic.gr.

    • Manos Hatzidakis: O efialtis tis Persefonis (Ο Εφιάλτης της Περσεφόνης: The Nightmare of Persephone) SATB and Piano. Score: http://bit.ly/NightPers
    • Tasos Pappas: 4 shepherds’ songs. SATB or SSA. From “Choral works of Greek composers“ by Maria Meligopoulou. Editions Papagregpriou Nakas. www.panasmusic.gr.

    • Traditional folksong: Thalassaki mou (Θαλασσάκι μου). (My little sea). Available for SATB a cappella or SSA and piano. Editions Papagregpriou Nakas.

    • Lena Platonos: To iliako leoforio (Το ηλιακό λεωφορείο: The Solar Bus). From Εδώ Λιλιπούπολη τα τραγούδια. SSA and piano. Editions IANOS.
  • Hungary
    • Balázs Árpád: Bodzavirág (Elderflower). Children’s choir SA + piano. Editio Musica Budapest Ltd.

    • Zoltán Kodály: Hegyi éjszakák (Mountain Nights). SSSAA. Universal Music Publishing / Editio Musica Budapest Ltd.
    • Miklós Kocsár: Ó, havas erdő némasága (Oh, silence of snowy forest) from Három nőikar. Editio Musica Budapest Ltd.

  • Italia
    • Bepi De Marzi: L‘ acqua zé morta. Edizioni Curci. http://bit.ly/LacquaM

  • Latvia
    • Uģis Prauliņš/trad.: Hip Hop Folk Trance Variations. SSSSAAAA + String quartett. Self-published: praulins@hotmail.com.
    • Uģis Prauliņš/ William Blake:Laughing Song (Hahahe). SSAA, TTBB & SATB versions. Musica Baltica
    • Uģis Prauliņš/classical Japanese haiku: Japan impressions.
    • Uģis Prauliņš. Viderunt omnes. SATB. Musica Baltica.
    • Uģis Prauliņš. Iam ver egelidos. SSAATTBB. Self-published: praulins@hotmail.com.
    • Uģis Prauliņš/ De Krudener/Clarence Ford. Imagination. SA + tp,tp,h,tb,tuba. Self-published: praulins@hotmail.com.
    • Uģis Prauliņš/ Hans Christian Andersen. The Nightinghale. SSSSSAAAAACtTTTTTBBBBB & recorders (S-nino, S, A, T). Musica Baltica
  • Lithuania
    • Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: On the Other Bank of Nemunas. SATB. Lithuanian. Jonas Petronis Ed.
    • Jonas Tamulionis: On the Shore. SATB. Lithuanian. Self-published.
    • Nomeda Valančiūtė: The Rain on Thin Glass Legs. SATB. Lithuanian. Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre.
  • Russia
    • Alexander Borodin: Fly away on the wings of wind (< Prince Igor). SATB. Musik-Edition Lucie Galland
    • Serguei Rachmaminov: Zadryemali volny (The waves fell asleep). SATB. Harmonia HU4017-250.
    • Sergei Taneyev/ Yakov Polonsky: Evening (N° 2 from 12 Choruses, Op.27). SATB. www.musicaneo.com Sergei Taneyev/ Yakov Polonsky: Behold, What Darkness (N° 4 from 12 Choruses, Op.27). SATB. Public domain.
  • Spain
    • Eva Ugalde/Josune López: Uraren Besotik. SAA. CM Ediciones Musicales S.L.
  • Canarias
    • Dante Andreo / José Bergamín: Agua sólo es el mar. SATB a capella.
    • Dante Andreo / Federico García Lorca: Cantos del agua. SATB a capella.
    • Dante Andreo / Pedro García Cabrera: Como un árbol. SATB a capella.
    • Dante Andreo / Pedro Lezcano: La mar quiere ser cielo. SMA + piano.
    • Dante Andreo / trad.: Mi pequeño planeta. SMA + piano.
    • Dante Andreo / Feliciano Sánchez Chan: Soy la ceiba sagrada. SATB a capella.
    • Dante Andreo / Felipe Díaz Mazuela: Viene el agua cantando. SMA + piano. Self-published: www.danteandreo.com
  • Catalonia
    • Josep Oller i Sabaté: Pirinenques IV. SAB, TTB, SSA. FICTA Edicions.
  • Sweden
    • Anders Edenroth: Water. SATBB. Walton Music
  • United Kingdom
    • Alec Roth: Earthrise. a capella 40-parts SATB choir. Editions Peters.
    • John Rutter: For the beauty of the earth. SATB o. SA o TTBB + piano/organ/orchestra. Oxford University Press.

 

NORTH AMERICA

  • USA
    • The Justice Choir Songbook is a powerful new collection of songs for the issues of our time, and includes 43 new and re-purposed songs selected from a national Call for Scores. https://www.justicechoir.org/
    • Frank Ticheli: Earth Song. SATB. Hinshaw Music.
    • Jonathan Reid: Measure Me, Sky. SATB divisi. Beckenhorst Press.
  • Canada
    • Stephen Chatman: Due North. SATB. Galaxy Music Co.
    • Nancy Telfer: First Snow. Unison & piano. Kjos Music Co.
    • Nancy Telfer: There is a Tall Fir Tree. Unison & piano. Leslie Music Supply.
    • Nancy Telfer: Canada, the land of Lakes and Rivers. SA & piano. Leslie Music Supply.
    • Nancy Telfer: Butterfly. SSA. Earthsongs.
    • Nancy Telfer: Chasing the Northern Lights. SSA. Leslie Music Supply.
    • Nancy Telfer: The Blue Eye of God. SSAA. Earthsongs
    • Nancy Telfer: Requiem aeternam. SSAA, piano, percussion. Porfiri & Horvath Publishers
    • Nancy Telfer: The Swallow. SSAA & piano. Kjos Music Co.
    • Katerina Gimon: Elements. SATB o. SSAA. Cypress Choral Music.
    • Katerina Gimon: The Language of the Stars SATB + piano o. SATB + orchestra. Self-published.
    • Katerina Gimon: To the Peak of the Mountain. SATB. Cypress Choral Music.
    • Katerina Gimon: The Mountain to the Moon Self-published.
    • Katerina Gimon: Spellbound. SSAA divisi. Cypress Choral Music.
    • Katerina Gimon: The Birds‘ Lullaby. SSAA. MusicSpoke.
    • Marie-Claire Saindon: Terre Neuve. SATB o. SSAA. Cypress Choral Music.
    • Marie-Claire Saindon: Day‘s Voices. SATB on composer’s website.
    • Marie-Claire Saindon: Day‘s Voices. SSAA. Alliance Music Publications.
    • Matthew Emery: Night on a starry hill. SATB. Boosey & Hawkes.
    • Matthew Emery: I am the still rain falling. SATB. Santa Barbara Music Publishing.
    • Matthew Emery: You Have Made Me, Earth. SA. Galaxy Music Co.
    • Matthew Emery: O why do I turn to the wild sky. SATB. Boosey & Hawkes.

 

OCEANIA

  • New Zealand
    • Leonie Holmes: The Estuary. SSA + piano. SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music.
    • Craig Utting: Monument. SATB or SSAA + piano or organ. SOUNZ.
    • Anthony Ritchie: Silver Songs. SATB a cappella. SOUNZ.
    • David Hamilton: Sunrise at Mangawhai. SATB a cappella. SOUNZ.
    • Gillian Whitehead: Taiohi Taiao. SSAATBB + taonga puoro (Māori instruments). SOUNZ.

 

SOUTH AMERICA

  • Argentina
    • Eduardo Alonso Crespo / Martín Alemán: Pachamama (Mother earth) Op.11. Treble choir.
    • Eduardo Alonso Crespo / trad.: Ara Pana (Vuela Mariposa – Fly butterfly). Equal voices. Self-published. eduardoalonsocrespo@hotmail.com
    • Claudio Alsuyet: En el Paraná… Coro SATB. Ediciones GCC.
    • Héctor Bisso (Arr.): Kadu Walum (Green Spring). Coro SATB. Goldberg Musikeditionen.
    • Diego Boero: Naturaleza. Children’s choir SS + piano. Publicación del Instituto Coral Santa Fe.
    • Eduardo Ferraudi: De barro y trigo. SATB div. Ediciones GCC.
    • Ricardo Fischer: Nauoxo. Coro SATB div. Helbling Verlag.
    • Mario Figueroa (Arr.): Seis canciones totémicas Mapuches. Coro SSA. Goldberg Musikeditionen.
    • Osvaldo Golijov: Oceana. Boy Soprano, Chorus and Orchestra. Boosey & Hawkes.
    • Carlos Guastavino: Arroyito serrano. SATB. Ricordi Americana Buenos Aires
    • Carlos Guastavino: Indianas. SATB + piano. Ricordi Americana Buenos Aires
    • Oscar Llobet: Tawa Ima. SATB. Verlag: Goldberg Musikeditionen
    • Camilo Matta: Cantores por naturaleza. Children’s choir + SATB + instr. Self-published. mattacamiloe@gmail.com
    • Oscar Matus/ Armando Tejada Gómez/Rolando Budíni: Zamba del Riego. Ediciones Internacionales Fermata.
    • Edgard Moya Godoy: Bosque Arrebol. Coro SATB + body percussion. Goldberg Musikeditionen.
    • Laura Otero: Abril. Coro SSMez + piano. Self-published. laurita.otero@gmail.com
    • Laura Otero: Plantemos un árbol. Children’s choir + piano. Self-published. laurita.otero@gmail.com
    • Mariana Rewerski: De bichos y flores. Children’s choir SmezA. Ediciones GCC.
    • Antonio Russo: Canto al sol. Coro SSMAA. Ediciones GCC.
    • Damian Sánchez: El árbol ya fue plantado. SATBB. CulturArte Ediciones.
    • Damian Sánchez: Tonada de otoño. SATB. Editorial Lagos (Warner Chappell Music).
    • Damian Sánchez: El Atuel niño de sueños. SATTBB. CulturArte Ediciones.
    • Manuel Tejón/Hugo de la Vega: Remolinos. SATBB. Ediciones GCC.
    • Marcelo Valva: Invocación. Coro SSMezA. Self-published. valvamarcelo@gmail.com.
  • Cuba
    • Wilma Alba Cal / Federico García Lorca: 5 canciones. SATB. Self-published. wilmaalbacal@gmail.com.
    • Wilma Alba Cal / Federico García Lorca: Suite. Children’s choir, String quartet + piano. Self-published. wilmaalbacal@gmail.com.
    • Wilma Alba Cal / Rafaela Chacón Nardi: Jacarandá. Self-published. wilmaalbacal@gmail.com.
    • Freddy Lafont Mena: Canción para sanar. Children’s choir, SATB + piano. Self-published. freddylafont@gmail.com.
    • Freddy Lafont Mena: 23:58:20 A solo 100 segundos del apocalipsis. SATB + Sol. + piano. Self-published. freddylafont@gmail.com.
    • López-Gavilán, Guido: Caleidotropic II. SSAATTBB. Edition Ferrimontana.
  • Mexico
    • Rafael Carneras / Metzli Moyer / Julio Morales (Arr.): A la tierra. SATB + Children’s Choir. Self-published.
  • Venezuela
    • César Alejandro Carrillo/ Fernando Paz Castillo: Encuentro. SATB. Musicarrillo.
    • Alberto Grau: Aqua. SATB + Soli + Orch. Carus-Verlag.
    • Alberto Grau: Kasar mie la gaji (The Earth is tired). SSAATB. Earthsongs.
    • Alberto Grau: Mariposita de primavera. TBB. Earthsongs.
    • Alberto Grau: Kasar mié la gaji. SATB o. SSAA. Earthsongs.
    • Antonio Lauro: Crepuscular. STB. Fundación Schola Cantorum de Caracas.