Tides of Peace. Choral Works of John Muehleisen. for a cappella SATB Choir div. Music by John Muehleisen. Poem by Henry van Dyke ( )

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1 M16 ides o eace Choral Works o ohn Muehleisen or a caella Choir div Music by ohn Muehleisen oem by Henry van Dyke ( ) Commissioned by ainbridge Chorale, Michael Miller, Music Director Dediced to community choirs around the orld th share our mission to enrich insire singers, audiences, communities through the transcendent oer o choral music ohnmuehleisencom

3 ides o eace Music, I yield to thee; s simmer to the sea I give my irit to the lood o song: ear me uon thy breast In rure he me in ure delight make me strong; rom strie struggle bring release, nd dra the aves o assion into o eace Remember'd songs, most dear, In living songs I hear, While blending voices gently sing say In melodies o love, Whose mighty currents move, With singing near singing ar aay; eet in the glo o morning light, nd seeter still across the starlit gul o night Music, in thee e lo, nd lose the lonely note O sel in thy celestialordered strain, ntil last e ind he lie to love resigned In harmony o oy restored again; nd songs th cheered our mortal days reak on the coast o light in endless hymns o raise X E ND HORE rom Music ( ) by Henry an Dyke ( ) erormance Notes inal consonants should alays be laced on the rest olloing the note or ords ending in voels, alays hold notes or the ull noted value or sustained notes, maintain the current dynamic level do not decrescendo unless exlicitly indiced In cases o threeart divisi beteen omen or beteen men, conductors should use their discretion about using a balanced 3ay slit or maintaining the balance as ritten

4 rogram Notes ides o eace as commissioned by ainbridge Chorale on ainbridge Isl in Washington te s uget ound he ork is dediced to community choirs around the orld th share ainbridge Chorale s mission to enrich insire singers, audiences, communities through the transcendent oer o choral music During the beginning o the roect, I met several times ith ainbridge Chorale s Music Director, Michael Miller, to discuss the goals the he the Chorale had in mind or the commission his hase o commissioning roects is truly one o my avorites It is the oint hich the ininite ossibilities o an otherise blank canvas are creively constrained to rovide a rameork ocus or h eventually emerges as a musical ork During our meetings, Michael had some very clear descritors themes th he anted the iece to evoke, including Community, eace, nity, Love o inging, the concet o ongs rom the Heart nd o course there are the obvious themes th go along ith the notion o being loced on an isl in uget ound: er, aves,, currents, loing, the sea, the shore With ainbridge Chorale s mission stement, Michael s themes, the hysical image o ainbridge Isl itsel set in the beauty o uget ound, I began one o my other avorite hases o comosing: inding the right text ter looking dozens o ossibilities, ranging rom oems about music by oets such as Robert Herrick Walter de la Mare to sacred texts including I Corinthians 13, he eitudes, salm 133 ( Ho good leasant it is to dell together in unity ), I decided to try setting the oening lines rom salm 133, hich I thought cured beautiully the themes o unity, community, eace exressed by Michael during our initial meetings ter orking it reorking it, I elt like I as sinning my heels; the iece ust asn t moving in the right direction, so I stoed comosing returned to my quest or a text Not long into my reneed search, I stumbled onto an extended cycle o oems by the merican oet Henry van Dyke ( ) titled Music When I read ea hore, the tenth inal oem in the cycle, I kne I had ound the right text! I as overcome ith the beauty o the images in the oem, the ay in hich it cured every asect o h e ere looking or in a text as remarkable, rom the mission stement, to the various themes Michael had shared ith me, to the images o ainbridge Isl itsel! Not anting to bias the chorale s conductor, I resented him ith a variety o texts, including both the sacred sources several o the secular oems about music ter he read van Dyke s ea hore, he too lent his strongest vote to th oem elt th it as the right one I as delighted th he elt the same ay as I did about the remarkable arorieness o the text or the commission eore starting to comose the musical setting, I nearly alays choose a title irst, because the central image o the title ill requently guide the musical setting itsel I already kne th I did not ant to use the original title o the oem ea hore hich is not a articularly oetic title hich I ound both too rosaic too geograhical ter trying a dozen or so titles on or size, I inally settled on ides o eace the inal three ords rom the end o the irst stanza o the oem I as griied th Michael agreed holeheartedly hen I shared it ith him ter my customary indeth analysis o the oem, I began sketching some initial musical ideas, the iece took o like a shot out o a cannon, taking me only a coule o days to inish most o the musical setting I ind van Dyke s oem deely insirional, I hoe th the musical setting cures the beauty, deth, see o the oem, as ell as the goals set orth by ainbridge Chorale Most o all, I hoe this ork is both uniquely suited to ainbridge Chorale one th they can truly call their on th it ill also hel to ulill ainbridge Chorale s mission to enrich insire singers, audiences, communities through the transcendent oer o choral music

5 oem by Henry an Dyke ( ) dagio cantabile q = 7 orano lto enor ass iano or reh only no Oo Oo dagio cantabile q = 7 stagger brehing stagger brehing 8 8 h ides o eace Commissioned by ainbridge Chorale, Michael Miller, Music Director Dediced to community choirs around the orld th share ainbridge Chorale's mission to enrich insire singers, audiences, communities through the transcendent oer o choral music h Ó Ó ERL CORE DO NO COY Ó oco rit oco rit 013, 01 by ohn Muehleisen,,,, 6 Ó a temo a temo 1 1 Music by: ohn Muehleisen 013 (rev 01) Ó 6 Ó Ó

6 ides o eace no Mu sic, I yield to 3 Mu sic, I yield to thee; s simmer to the sea I give my ir it to the Mu sic, I yield to Mu sic, I yield to thee;,, thee; thee;, n n n n n n to the to the to the n 18 lood lood lood lood o o o o song; song; song; song; ERL CORE DO NO COY 0 ear me Mu sic, u ear me Mu sic, u Mu sic, ear me Mu sic, u Mu sic, ear me Mu sic, u on on thy breast thy breast no 18 b b 0 3 3

7 ides o eace Mu sic, In ra Mu sic, In on thy breast In n ture n ra ture n ra n ture n b 6 on thy breast In ra ture no 3 3 n n n b 6 8 oco iu mosso q = 7 he he ERL CORE DO NO COY he molto esressivo he me in molto esressivo me in molto esressivo me in molto esressivo me in 30 ure de light ure de light ure ure de light de light make me make me make me make me make me strong; 3 strong; make me strong; strong; strong; strong; rom strie rom strie > rom rom strie rom strie strie no oco iu mosso q =

8 ides o eace 3 struggle bring re lease, struggle bring re lease, nd nd dra the aves o dra the aves o 36 as sion as sion b oco rit in to in to 38 o o eace eace strug gle bring re lease, strug gle bring re lease, strug gle bring re lease, nd nd dra the aves o dra the aves o as sion in to 3 as sion in to o o eace eace no b oco rit 38 C dagio tranquilo q = 6 0 b b b b ẇ DO NO COY o o o o eace eace eace eace ERL CORE D Con moto q = 778 eace eace eace Ó Ó eace 6 Re eace eace cantabile member'd songs, cantabile Re member'd songs, most most no C dagio tranquilo q = 6 0 D Con moto q = 778 semre Ó 6

9 ides o eace eace eace dear, In living songs I eace eace hear, While eace eace cantabile blend ing voic cantabile eace eace es sing sing sing unis say say say unis dear, In living songs I hear, While blend ing voic es gently sing say no say say ERL CORE DO NO COY In In E cantabile 5 me lo dies o love, Whose might y cur rents move, Whose might y cur rents me lo dies o love, Whose might y cur rents me lo dies o love, Whose might y cur rents me lo dies o love, Whose might y cur rents 56 move, move, move, Whose might y cur rents Whose might y cur rents Whose might y cur rents no E 5 56

10 6 ides o eace no no move, move, move, move, With With With With singing near singing ar a ay; singing near singing near singing near nd seet er 60 lontano rit singing ar a ay; lontano light, nd seet er still seeter still light, nd seet er light, nd seet er light, nd seet er still rit lontano lontano 60 still still still singing ar a ay; ERL CORE DO NO COY singing ar a ay; 66 6 dolce dagio dolcissimo q = 68 eet in the eet in the eet in the eet in the dagio dolcissimo q = 68 6 dolce dolce dolce a cross the star lit gul o a cross the star lit gul o > a 66 a cross the star lit gul o a cross the star lit cross the oco rit star lit oco rit gul gul o o glo glo glo glo 68 night night night night night o morning o morning o morning o morning 68

11 no b b b b G dagio tranquilo q = 6 69 b b b b 70 ẇ G dagio tranquilo q = 6 69 o o o o 70 eace eace eace eace ides o eace 7 7 H H dagio cantabile q = 7 ERL CORE dagio cantabile q = Mu sic, in thee e Mu sic, in thee e Mu sic, in thee e Mu sic, in thee e lo, lo, nd lo, lo, N N nd N DO NO COY nd nd 76 n n lose the lone ly note O sel in thy ce les tial or dered n lose the note lose lose sel sel O sel 78 n thy or dered n thy or dered thy or dered 3 76 n n 78 n no 3 n

12 8 ides o eace no strain, strain, strain, strain, n n I 80 til last e ind he lie to love re til last e ind he lie to love re til last e I 80 cantabile til last e ind ind he lie to love re he lie to love re 8 8 signed signed signed signed oco iu mosso q = 7 gioioso In In In In harmony gioioso harmony gioioso harmony gioioso harmony oco iu mosso q = o oy o oy o oy o oy re stored a re stored a gain; a re stored a re stored a ERL CORE DO NO COY re stored a gain; 86 gain; gain; gain; gain; nd songs th nd songs th > nd nd songs th nd songs th songs th 88 cheered our mor tal cheered our mor tal cheered our mor tal cheered our mor tal cheered our mor tal days reak days reak days days reak days reak no 86 88

13 no on the coast o on the coast o on the coast o on the coast o light light light light Ó Ó Ó Ó in K 9 end less K 9 ides o eace Ó hymns o in in end less raise in end less hymns o hymns o raise in end less 9 9 end less hymns o raise hymns in in end less o raise 9 no raise ERL CORE DO NO COY in end less hymns o raise in end less hymns o hymns o raise in end less hymns o raise in end less 96 end less hymns o 96 in end less in end less raise hymns o raise, o hymns o raise 98 raise raise hymns o raise 98

14 10 ides o eace 100 G L Largo tranquillo q = o eace G G G ẇ o o o o eace eace eace eace o o o o eace eace eace eace no 100 G G L ERL CORE DO NO COY Largo tranquillo q = Dur: 6:30

Evening Prayer. SATB a cappella. words by Thomas Ken ( ) music by Sheena Phillips

Evening Prayer. SATB a cappella. words by Thomas Ken ( ) music by Sheena Phillips Evening rayer a caella ords by homas Ken (1637 1711) music by heena hillis homas Ken s evening hymn is oten sung to the tune o allis s Canon Here it is given a ne setting using a entatonic melody and belllike