AMOR DE MI ALMA (TTBB with opt piano) Three versions of Amor de mi alma: TTBB (opt piano), SSATB version, or solo (high) voice & piano version; Publisher of TTBB version: Walton Music – WJMS 1036 (TTBB chorus) Publisher of SSATB version: Walton Music – WJMS 1025 (mixed version) Publisher of solo version:   www.zrstroope.com

TTBB/piano/oboe Randall has set this very popular text (“Danny Boy”) to a new tune and harmonization; TTBB, oboe and piano.  Establishes a sound palette that is heart-wrenching and yearning all at the same time; for a chorus with strong expressive capability. Publisher: Colla Voce 48-96720

TBB/piano (also available for SSA/pno, SATB/pno) apocalyptic and epic text; requires strong piano collaborator. Performed by the Ohio State University Men’s Glee Club, University of North Texas TTBB Ensemble, Oregon State University Meistersingers, Calgary  (Canada) TTBB Chorus, among others. Publisher: Alliance Music Publ.   AMP 0616 (TBB)

SATB/piano or TTBB/piano Poetry – Edmund Waller; written for my dear friend, Peggy Graff; mixed version premiered at the Texas Music Educator’s Convention SATB Alliance AMP 0940 (Alliance Music Publ) TTBB Alliance AMP 0944 (Alliance Music Publ)

TTBB (also available in SATB unaccompanied or SSAA/piano) During this covid-19 pandemic – like millions of others – I felt helpless, full of unanswered questions, and most of all – profoundly sad for the thousands of families who lost a loved one – a mother, a father, a child, a grandparent, a friend, or someone […]

TBB/piano Publisher: Heritage Music Press

TTBB/finger cymbals(multiple sets) or tambourine; Text:  The astronomer, Galileo, invented the telescope, allowing the first human to view the four satellites or rings of Jupiter observe a supernova, and many other amazing sights in the stars.  Galileo wrote a treatise (Siderejus Nuncius) which describes his astronomical discoveries.  This work sets to music much of the […]

  TTBB/string quartet (or piano)  or offered in SATB/string quartet (or piano) – Length 3:05  [SATB performance by THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES, ZRS, conductor] Text by Christopher Smart, from Jubilate Deo (Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb utilizes much of same text);  poet had many fantastic mental images in writing, including fetish for the alphabet; quick, quirky, […]