Vocal Works is the publishing imprint of concert music composer and performer M. Ryan Taylor.
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Print: $15.55 Download: FREE Artaban, of the Magi, discovers the sign of Christ's birth and travels to join his fellow magi in offering his gifts to "The King of Light" : a saphire, a ruby and a pearl. In stopping to help a sick stranger along the
way, Arataban finds that he has missed the caravan and has been left behind. So begins a personal journey to find his king, one that will last his entire life. This story is perfect for the Easter or Christmas seasons (or even for a special 12th Night or 3 Kings Day celebration : Jan 5-6). "The Other Wise Man" requires only six singers who play a variety of roles throughout the work (an optional chorus may be added and more soloists may be used if desired).
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Print: $15.28 Download: FREE A song cycle incorporating 5 very unique, lovely and thought provoking Christmas Poems by Katherine Tynan, a dubliner poet championed by William Butler Yeats. Titles of the individual songs: 1. The Christmas Bird, 2. All Heaven and it was One Hour Old, 3.Bethlehem, 4. Bring Him Peace & 5. Old Song Re-Sung ***** A hand-written manuscript of "The Christmas Bird" was located in a special collection of Katherine Tynan Hinkson papers by M. Ryan Taylor and transcribed by him and members of his family. ***** Add this beautiful cycle or one of it's individual songs to your Christmas program, concert or church service.
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Print: $13.25 Download: FREE Cycle of Seven Songs : "Whimsical, macabre, deeply spiritual: the poetry of Vachel Lindsay has long attracted me for it's wild variety, lyric sensability and deep emotional impact. Although made famous by such poems as "The Congo" and "General William Booth Marches into Heaven" (the title poems for the anthologies from which "The Moon Songs" were selected), I have been attracted mainly to his more concise poems 'in which the moon is the principle figure of speech.' These poems explore human perspective, Linday's hypothesis being that 'the moon is a mirror' in which we find what we bring. Lindsay wrote many of these moon poems and it was difficult to choose between so many fine poems. In the end, I based my selection on variety, dramatic contrast and a progression towards my own view of the moon, one that is spiritual." - M. Ryan Taylor
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Print: $11.04 Download: FREE Cycle of 5 songs: "C.S. Lewis, perhaps the greatest Christian apologist of the 20th century and author of the popular children's book series, "The Chronicles of Narnia," considered George MacDonald his mentor and spiritual guide. MacDonald himself was an Anglican minister for a time, but was forced to give up the ministry because of his radical beliefs. He is best known for his fairy tales, but also wrote many sermons, books and some poetry. "The Diary of an Old Soul," MacDonald's largest poetic work, consists of 365 four-line stanzas, one for each day of the year. These poems deal mainly with MacDonald's strife in reconciling himself to God. Out of these pleadings I have selected a number of stanzas that speak to me. They are primarily about life, death, rebirth, beauty and the power of creation. "Leafs from the Diary of an Old Soul" was composed mainly in 2003 with some revision in 2004." - M. Ryan Taylor
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Print: $9.83 Download: FREE A playful fugue with a noir edge; in the spirit of 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' by Dukas. Contains 3 bonus works for keyboard instruments by Taylor: Fantasy for Organ, After Babbitt Screamed, & Minuet.
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Print: $10.56 Download: FREE Song Cycle: In the summer of 1820 a fourteen-year-old boy named Joseph Smith Jr. walked into a grove of trees in upstate New York to pray. Prompted by a verse from James that stated "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God...", Joseph intended to ask which church he should join himself with. When he knelt to pray, he felt as though he was being assailed by an unseen power that wished to destroy him, yet no sooner did he lift up his voice to God than he felt himself delivered and saw a glorious light descend around him. "A Light that Shames the Noonday Sun" is based upon this visionary experience of Joseph Smith Jr.,and was written in celebration of Smith's 200th birthday. The work was premiered 12/23/05 by Dr. Lawrence Vincent, head of Brigham Young University Opera.
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Print: $8.51 Download: $0.89 This setting for medium voice of two poems by Vachel Lindsay would make a humorous addition for any concert, but would really be a hit at any Halloween event. The first song, "The Lion", describes how the strife of a pride of lions is put to peace when an explorer unwittingly becomes dinner. The second song, "The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly" is written from the perspective of the fly, who loved, unfortunately, the spider. The set was originally written in 1998, entitled "Two Songs to Frighten Young Children." This updated version was produced in 2005.
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Print: $10.03 Download: FREE Song Cycle: La Belle Dame sans Merci (trans. The Beautiful Lady without Mercy) is one of Keats' most famous poems and tells the tale of a young knight who is bewitched one springtime by a seductive fay. The knight gladly succumbs to the fairy's charms, is 'kissed to sleep' but then encounters a very troubling dream. Upon waking he finds that he is alone, spring and summer have fled away, and he is left to answer the probing questions of a passerby on the 'lone hillside.' The poem became a favorite subject for visual artists in the British Isles, particularly among the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. One of those paintings, a work by Waterhouse, was the inspiration for this song cycle.
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Print: $8.28 Download: $0.89 Two early art songs by composer M. Ryan Taylor. The first song, after a poem by Michael Drayten is entitled "Come Let Us Kiss and Part." The second song is a setting of Proverbs 3:13-20 "Happy is the Man." Both songs were composed in the late 1990s and are the earliest of Taylor's works to be published. Both have been revised and updated in early 2006.
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Print: $12.40 Download: $5.00 Thirteen original songs and arrangements for Halloween by award-winning composer M. Ryan Taylor. Includes: "Welcome" said the Spider, Five Little Pumpkins, The Ghost of John, Three Little Ghostesses, Mactavish is Dead, Skin and Bones, Queen Nefertiti . . . also contains "Three Witch Songs" and "Three Quodlibets for a Gaggle of Ghouls." Fun for the whole family. Learn a couple, go "trick or treating" & surprise your neighbors with a treat of your own! Piano/Vocal.
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Print: $11.10 A collection of songs, hymns & rounds celebrating the season of thanks from award-winning composer M. Ryan Taylor. You're all together on Thanksgiving, why not join your voices in a song or two about the things we have to be grateful for? Includes: Thanksgiving!, "Father, we Thank Thee", Pilgrim Children (may be sung as a round), Simple Gifts, Oats and Beans, Turkey in the Straw, Thanksgiving Day is Very Near, How to Observe Thanksgiving (round), Harvest Hymn, All Good Gifts, & First Thanksgiving Day. Piano/Vocal.
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Print: $11.30 12 original carols & arrangements + 3 new Christmas rounds from award-winning composer M. Ryan Taylor. Includes: O Sing a Song of Bethlehem, No Room at the Inn, Winds through the Olive Trees, Pat-a-Pan, On Bethlehem's Silent Plain, Mary's Manger Song, "Tyrlow, Tyrloo, Tyrle!", The March of the Three Kings, Slowly Fall the Snowflakes, Gifts of the Wise Men, Here we Come a Caroling, & "Ring! Bells Ring!" Plus three new Christmas rounds! Piano/Vocal.
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Print: $10.80 Download: FREE Simple Halloween crafts and projects with full-color photos. Contents:
1. Crystal Ball
2. Scrap-Wood Sign
3. Shrunken Apple Heads
4. Halloween Print Placemats
5. Found Object Characters
6. Trick-or-Treat Bag
7. Skeleton Lovers
8. Pumpkin & Bat Garland
9. Imps
10. Duct Tape Monsters
11. Glowing Spider’s Web Placemat
12. Dead, White Halloween Tree
13. Canned Spider
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Print: $10.80 Download: FREE This booklet of kitchen-tested recipes includes a complete Halloween dinner, treats, appetizers and even a "Goblin's Horns" breakfast casserole. Complete with color photos!
Contents:
1. Easy Pumpkin Chill-ee Bowls
2. Blue Moon Corn Muffins
3. Orange Essence Honey Butter
4. Red Eyes are Watching
5. The Green Brain
6. Red Hot Cauldron Cakes
7. Skull on a Stick
8. Cheese Blob with Green Bat Chips
9. Hypnotic Apple Cheese Pinwheels
10. Pumpkin Seed Party Mix
11. What is it? - Checkerboard Fudge Part 1
12. Rocky Road - Checkerboard Fudge Part 2
13. Goblin’s Horns for Halloween Morns
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Print: $19.85 Download: $8.00 42 Included Titles: All Glory, Laud and Honor | All Good Gifts | As With Gladness Men of Old | Awake, Ye Saints of God, Awake! | Away in a Manger | Behold! the Harvest Wide Extends | Book of Mormon Stories |
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come | Deck the Hall | Harvest Hymn | How Firm a Foundation | How Gentle God's Commands | I Know Thats My Redeemer Lives! | I Need Thee Every Hour | Joseph, thou son of David | Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning! | Lead, Kindly Light | Lee - Loo - Lye, A Christmas Lullaby | Let There Be Lights in the Firmament of Heaven | Mary's Manger Song | Ode to a Fruitcake | On Bethlehem's Silent Plain | Sir Christemasse | Star in the East | The Fruit is Sweet | The Three Kings | The Wexford Carol |
Then I was Glad | Three Peaces | Tyrlow, Tyrloo, Tyrle | Wake, Awake for Night is Flying! | We Thank Thee, O God, For a Prophet | We Three Kings
We're Back! | What the Man of Faith Said | Wonderful! is in the Stable | Wondrous Love
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