Most This Amazing
for SATB chorus, two pianos and percussion
Most This Amazing is a colorful, pulse-driven setting of E. E. Cummings’ well-known poem of gratitude and wonder. Two pianos and percussion add rhythmic energy, sparkle, and a magical sheen, with the choir carrying the text in broad, singable phrases.
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Performance Packet (PDF) includes:
- Full score (10×13, 36 pp incl. cover)
- Choral score (8.5×11, 25 pp)
- Percussion part (10×13, 5 pp)
Performance Packet (PDF) — License terms
Purchase includes a non-transferable license for one ensemble to rehearse and perform Most This Amazing for one performance run (concert dates within a continuous 30-day window), and to make unlimited copies of the included PDFs for that licensed use.For performances outside that window, or for use by a different ensemble, please purchase an additional Performance Packet.
Purchase includes a non-transferable license for one ensemble to rehearse and perform Most This Amazing for one performance run (concert dates within a continuous 30-day window), and to make unlimited copies of the included PDFs for that licensed use.For performances outside that window, or for use by a different ensemble, please purchase an additional Performance Packet.
SKU: SWM-003
Categories: Choral Music, Mixed Voices
Tags: Choral, Percussion
| Voicing: | SATB |
| Instrumentation: | Percussion, Piano |
| Language: | English |
| Sacred or Secular: | Secular |
| Season or Event: | Graduation |
| Descriptive Tags: | Adoration, Celebratory, Exhilaration, Inspiration, Nature, Poetry, Thanksgiving |
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This setting is ideally suited for a good chamber choir with a high soprano soloist. Julie Myers’ beautiful poem suggests to the composer a journey from darkness to light, from despair to hope, and this is reflected in the music, which should be performed simply, but with expressiveness and conviction. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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