Vocal Music by Dean Crocker
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- 3 Hansenlieder (1987)
- • Solo voice and piano. [English] 5½′
- Settings of three slightly surreal poems by David C. Hansen. Fairly easy
- 3 Secular Anthems from The Sacred Harp (2020)
- • TTBB Choir, a cappella. [English] 11–12′
- Arrangements of early 19th-century American patriotic verses from the classic “Shape Note” tradition
- 3 Shakespeare Sonnets (2010-2023)
- • SATB choir & piano. [English] 8′
- A long-abandoned project refreshed, refined, and regenerated. (Settings of sonnets 12, 97, and 60.)
- 3 Wisconsin Sonnets (2015)
- • SATB choir, a cappella. [English] 6½′
- Texts from Wisconsin Sonnets by Charles H. Winke (1917)
- As the Living Father Sent Me (1980)
- • SATB choir and organ. [English] 2¼′
- Communion meditation or anthem for church use. Fairly easy
- At Midnight (2013)
- •Voice and piano. [English] 8½′
- Short settings of five poems by Sara Teasdale
- De Rerum Natura (2019)
- • Orchestra, Baritone voice and SATB choir. [Latin] 31′
- A setting of selected texts from the poem by Lucretius
- Dichtung und Wahrheit (1970)
- • Tenor voice and flute. [German] 6¼′
- Setting of four short poems by Goethe. Rather difficult
- from Hamlet (2005)
- • SATB choir with flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and piano. [English] 4′
- Originally written in 1976; greatly revised in 2005
- Goodbye My Friend (1985)
- • Solo voice (or unison choir) and piano. [English] 3′
- Christmas ballad, originally written for a musical for children
- Harvest Home (1989)
- • TTBB choir with strings. [English] 2′
- Based on Henry Purcell‘s Your Hay It Is Mow’d, this piece is well suited for Thanksgiving or harvest-time. Very traditional, rousing male glee club number
- I Believe In An America (2016)
- • 3 equal voices (or choir), a cappella. [English] 1′
- A short Round (or canon) based on one of Mitt Romney‘s more circuitous statements in 2012
- Magnum nomen Domini (1978)
- • 2-part choir and organ. [Latin] 1½′
- Arrangement of a 14th century Christmas carol. Very easy
- Poscimur (2009)
- • SATB choir with piano. [Latin] 3½′
- Choral setting of Horace’s Ode I:32.
- Songs from Mortimer Collins (2022)
- • Tenor voice, string trio, oboe, clarinet, bassoon. (Piano reduction provided.) [English] 13′
- A setting of seven poems by English novelist, journalist and poet, Mortimer Collins (1827-1876)
- SONNETS to Sundry Notes of Music (2020)
- • Soprano voice, string trio, oboe, clarinet, bassoon. (Piano reduction provided.) 17′
- A setting of five poems that were published in a 1599 collection entitled The Passionate Pilgrim
- Walrus and the Carpenter, The (2005)
- • SATB choir, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano. [English] 9½′
- A jolly (yet dramatic!) setting of Lewis Carroll’s famous poem
- Beethoven—Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives (1988)
- • Orchestration for 10-piece ensemble [Fl, Ob, Cl, Bsn, Hn, Tpt, String quartet]. 6′
- Useful for festive church performances on a budget, this arrangement is to be used with the normal choir editions.
Choral scores are NOT provided
- Handel—Hallelujah from Messiah (2016)
- • SSATTB choir, a cappella. [English] 3½′
- The Hallelujah Chorus arranged for 6-part a cappella choir (or sextet?)
Inspired by an anonymous arrangement published in The Singing School Companion (1856)
- Hawthorne—Whispering Hope (2008)
- • Solo voice (or unison choir) with string quartet, oboe and piano. [English] 3¼′
- A fresh look at the popular 1868 hit by Alice Hawthorne, who was actually a man named Septimus Winner
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