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Chorus Angelicus - Paul Halley's Children's Choir from Torrington, Connecticut

 
   

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Our choral octavos are beautifully printed on acid-free paper with a heavy stock cover, so the music should last through repeated performances, and find a place of pride in your music library for years.

Choral
music prices - online orders
Retail List price is first. This is the price you would pay a dealer with no discount.
The second price in bold is with your automatic 10% Discount.

Discounts are as follows on Pelagos choral scores:
10% off quantities of 1 - 49 scores, same title, same voicing;
15% off quantities of 50 - 99 scores, same title, same voicing;
20% off quantities 100 scores and up, same title, same voicing;
Full Scores and Instrumental Parts are not discounted.

 
     

Perusal Choral Sampler
Order your choice of any six different
choral scores for perusal for $15.00 plus shipping.

Large Scores/Full Scores/Instrumental Parts/Keyboard Music
not included in this offer.

   
    Buy Choral Sampler SSA - Specify your six titles by title or product number in Comments/Special Instructions section upon checkout.
Choral Sampler SSA
 
   

All works composed or arranged by Paul Halley
Titles are in alphabetical order by voicing/accompaniment

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Choral Music Descriptions and Details
When placing an order for choral scores, please observe the required minimum quantity for each title or your order will not be processed. Singletons of choral titles are only available in Choral Samplers. See above. Please note that Full Scores and Sets of Instrumental Parts require various minimums of choral scores depending on the scope of the piece.
 

 
    SSA and Piano A - Z
 

Ballad of Hiram Hover, The

4’00”

List: $4.20 ($3.78)

PEL2036SSA

SSA and piano, optional organ

 
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Commissioned by Carol Magowan for Chorus Angelicus, Paul Halley, director. A lighthearted setting of James Bayard Taylor’s delightful poem which follows the romance of a young fur trader and his finicky, posy-gathering girlfriend in a spoof of 19th century New England culture and the long, nearly unpronounceable, Native American place names that abound in that region.  
 
                  

Choral Score
Minimum: 8

Instrumental Part:
Optional Organ - $12.

Level: Easy
Not yet recorded

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Freedom Trilogy
PEL2004SSA

8’00”

SSA $4.20 ($3.78)
SATB $4.60
($4.14)

PEL2004SATB

SSA or SATB and piano, optional bass, percussion, organ, or orchestra                           

 

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An inspiring and exciting arrangement that has become an international festival favorite.  “’Trilogy’ here refers not to the individual tunes that are so magically blended, first sequentially and then simultaneously, but rather to the three sonic worlds that the tunes represent: Gregorian chant yields to the sounds of Africa before both are gloriously embraced by ‘Amazing Grace’. Halley’s vision of a world without boundaries is powerfully conveyed in a work that will continue to delight, inspire, and amaze after many repeated auditions.”  – Jennifer Kolmes, The American Organist Magazine

 

Choral Score
Minimum:
12 SATB 8 SSA

Full Score & Instrumental Parts Pkg: (includes percussion) - $70.
Full Orchestral Score & Parts - $145.

Level: Easy to Moderate
CD Sound Over All Waters

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Grey Selchie, The

5’00”

List: $3.40 ($3.06)

PEL2010SSA

SSA and piano, optional organ


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A haunting and very atmospheric arrangement of this traditional Scottish folksong which tells the tragic legend of the grey selchie (a man upon the land, a seal in the sea) and his beloved little son.
 

Choral Score
Minimum: 8

Instrumental Part:
Optional Organ - $12.

Level: Moderate
CD Untraveled Worlds

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Hold To God’s Unchangin’ Hand        

4’00”

List: $3.80 ($3.42)
SSA or SATB

PEL2028SSA
PEL2028SATB

SATB with vocal solo and piano, optional bass, percussion


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A hip, jazzy arrangement of a gospel classic.  “This music is wonderful.  It’s about time for some new flavors for the gospel genre.”  – Eliot Wadopian, bassist
 

Choral Score
Minimum:
12 SATB 8 SSA

Instrumental Part:
Bass/Guitar - $12.               

Level: Moderate
CD Sound Over All Waters

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How Can I Keep From Singing? 

3’00”

List: $3.00 ($2.70)

PEL2034SSA

SSA and piano, trumpet, organ or strings

 
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The beautiful Shaker hymn is given a very American sound here in the simple, clean harmonies Halley uses to echo the meaning of the text. The use of antiphonal voices throughout furthers the plaintive quality of the song.
 

 
Choral Score
Minimum: 8

Instrumental Parts Pkg:
Trumpet and Organ - $18.

Full Score with Trumpet
and String Parts - $35.

Level: Easy
Not yet recorded

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Laudate Dominum
PEL2048SSA

3’30”

SSA $3.00 ($2.70)
SATB $3.40
($3.06)

PEL2048SATB

SSA or SATB and piano, optional bass, percussion, organ                                   

 
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“O Praise the Lord” - the text of Psalm 150 is set to a melody from Northern Brazil giving the work a lively, rhythmic feel.  True to the exhortation to “praise with the sound of trumpet, harp, cymbals, and dance”, this piece really dances!  “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Hallelujah!”
 

Choral Score
Minimum:
12 SATB 8 SSA

Instrumental Parts Pkg:
Bass/Guitar and Organ - $18.

Optional Parts Pkg:
Soprano Sax and Cello - $18.

Level: Easy
Not yet recorded

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Les Petits Troubadours de Dieu

9’00”

List: $2.25

EHD2524SSA

SSA and piano, optional SATB ending, optional bass, percussion, organ, soprano sax, cello                                      


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Commissioned by the Ottawa Choral Society, Brian Law, director. Primarily a setting for treble choir, “The Little Troubadours of God” includes an optional SATB ending.  The text from the Prayer of St. Francis and several of the psalms gives clear and joyous voice to a musical praising of God’s creation, in the spirit and style of St. Francis himself.
 

Choral Score -
Publisher's
Minimum: 12

Instrumental Parts Pkg:
Bass/Guitar and Organ - $18.

Optional Parts Pkg:
Sop Sax and Cello - $18.

Level: Moderate
CD Voices of Light

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Lord of All Hopefulness  

2’30”

List: $3.00 ($2.70)

PEL2008SSA

SSA and piano or organ


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A simple, canonic arrangement of this lovely Irish melody and a rippling piano (or organ) accompaniment express the bliss, hope, and joy of Jan Struther’s text.                                                                             


Choral Score
Minimum: 8

 

Level: Easy
CD Voices of Light

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Rock-A My Soul  

2’00”

List: $3.00 ($2.70)

PEL2035SSA

SSA and piano

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An up-tempo rendition of this classic spiritual, with a contemporary, jazzy freshness.                                                                             


Choral Score
Minimum: 8

 

Level: Easy
CD Voices of Light

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Seeds of Love, The
from ‘Love Songs for Springtime’

5’00”

List: $1.50

VG440SSAA

SSAA and piano or brass

 

Although created as part of the SATB song-cycle “Love Songs for Springtime”, this composition is for treble voices alone.  Interpreting the nature of love through the flowers of the garden, this work appeals in a plaintive and simple arrangement of melody stated and restated in a four-part canon.   
                                                

Choral Score
Minimum: 8

Instrumental Parts Pkg:
Brass Quintet - $20.

Level: Moderate
Not yet recorded

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Song of Wandering Aengus, The

3’30”

List: $3.40 ($3.06)

PEL2011SSA

SSA and piano with optional organ


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W.B.Yeats’ beautiful poem “The Golden Apples of the Sun” and a traditional Irish melody form the basis of this lyrical arrangement.  Halley has surrounded the melody with lush harmonies to give a very magical and romantic feel to this lovely folk song.                                                                                                    

Choral Score
Minimum: 8

Instrumental Part:
Optional Organ - $12.

Level: Easy
CD Untraveled Worlds

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United In Song
PEL2023Treble

4’30”

Treble$3.40 ($3.06)SATB $4.60 ($4.14)

PEL2023SATB

SSA or SATB and piano duet, optional bass and organ, or orchestra                      

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Commissioned by Arts Bureau for the Continents for the International Millennium Unisong Festival, Paul Halley’s words and music express the unity of people everywhere through music and song. In English with French translation.

Choral Score
Minimum:
12 SATB 8 SSA

Instrumental Parts Pkg: Bass/Guitar and Organ - $18.
Full Orchestral Score & Parts $105.

Level: Easy
(Keyboard version -
CD Triptych)

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Untraveled Worlds
PEL2025SSA

6’00”

SSA $4.20 ($3.78)
SATB $4.60
($4.14)

PEL2025SATB

SSA or SATB and piano, violin, optional bass, percussion, organ                                

 
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Commissioned by Collegium Musicum of Taft School, Bruce Fifer, director, this piece has become a prominent festival work. With excerpts from Tennyson’s “Ulysses”, this is a dramatic and heroic setting for an inspiring text with music that is innovative, affirmative and accessible.  “The sound of the full chorus just wraps around you like angel wings and lifts one’s spirits to a higher level.”
– Bonnie Beth Derby, Producer/host “Choral Traditions” WCNY-FM

Choral Score
Minimum:
12 SATB 8 SSA

Instrumental Parts Pkg:
Violin, Bass, Percussion, Organ $35.

Level: Moderate
CD Untraveled Worlds

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Voices of Light 
PEL2005SSA

8’00”

SSA $4.60 ($4.14)
SATB $4.60
($4.14)

PEL2005SATB

SSA or SATB and piano, flute, optional organ                                                                     

 
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Created for Chorus Angelicus, Paul Halley, director and the consummate flutist Rhonda Larson. Texts in Latin and English by Paul Halley. A musical expression of God as Light with ethereal harmonies and a dancing, intricate flute line. 
 

Choral Score
Minimum:
12 SATB 8 SSA

Instrumental Parts Pkg:
Flute and Organ - $20.

Level: Easy
CD Voices of Light

 

 
       
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Beannacht Leat, A Mhuire

2’30”

List: $3.00 ($2.70)

PEL2054SSA

SSA and organ

 
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A Hymn to the Virgin sung in Irish to a traditional folk melody.  The Soprano 1 melody line floats above a background setting of treble voices, resulting in a new Celtic Christmas favorite.  Created by Paul Halley for Chorus Angelicus on its tour to Ireland 2004.                                                   

Choral Score
Minimum: 8

 

Level: Moderate
CD What Child Is This?

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God Be Merciful Unto Us (Psalm 67)    

3’30”

List: $3.40 ($3.06)

PEL2021SSA

SSA and organ, trumpet

 
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Commissioned by Claire and Millard Pryor for their daughter’s wedding. A beautiful setting of this psalm for weddings or concerts, the soprano solo and light-filled harmonies of the other voices in this composition create a thrilling expression of God’s blessing and the rejoicing of all nations.

Choral Score
Minimum: 8


Instrumental Part: Trumpet - $12.

Level: Moderate
CD Untraveled Worlds

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Huron Carol  

3’00”

   List: $1.60

EHD2507SSA

SSA and organ, hand bells

 
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Commissioned by the Ottawa Central Choir, Barbara Clark, director. The Native American (Huron) interpretation of Jesus birth and the 16th century French melody of this carol are placed in a setting of austerity and simple reverence. Optional hand bells further evoke the atmosphere of stark winter. 

Choral Score
Minimum: 8

 

             Level: Moderate
CD Christmas Angelicus

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Lord of All Hopefulness  

2’30”

List: $3.00 ($2.70)

PEL2008SSA

SSA and organ (or piano)


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A simple, canon arrangement of this lovely Irish melody and a rippling piano (or organ) accompaniment express the bliss, hope, and joy of Jan Struther’s text.                                                                              

 
Choral Score
Minimum: 8

 

Level: Easy
CD Voices of Light

 
     
Choral SATB Series 2000 Liturgical Series 5000
   
Choral SSA Series 2000 Hymn Descants Series 6000
   
Solo Vocal Series 3000 Instrumental Series 7000
   
Keyboard Series 4000 Christmas Music

 

 
  Choral Music •  SSA • Series 2000  
 

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