Christopher Lee Fraley

composer

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Christopher Lee Fraley

composer

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I’m still in the process of creating a consistent easy-to-use way to order music. In the meantime, you can simply contact me directly, if the piece you're interested does not have shopping cart buttons. Your patience is appreciated!

Catalog

  • Music (28)
    • Choral (18)
    • Instrumental (5)
    • Orchestral (2)
    • Recordings (5)
    • Vocal (3)
  • News (17)
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a cappella Adela Florence Nicolson Alto Solo Animation A Virgin Unspotted Brightest and Best Byrd Ensemble Cascadian Chorale CD Cello Christina Rossetti Christmas Chromatic Drum Duet Flute Hebrew Heinrich Heine Horatio Parker Hymn India's Love Lyrics Isabella Parker Jazzy Latin Lecture Lord Tennyson Mass MMR Oscar Wilde Piano Picardy Playful PROJECT:ENCORE Recording Sacred Sara Teasdale SATB Song SSAATTBB SSATBB String Quartet Tenor Thomas Tallis Tone Poem Video Violin Vocal William Billings Woodwind Quintet

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Choral, Instrumental, Music, Orchestral, Vocal

I don’t yet have pages created for all of my pieces, so, this list is somewhat incomplete. For a full list, visit www.FraleyMusic.com/catalog-index/.

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a cappella, Cello, Christmas, Duet, Flute, Piano, Sacred, SATB, Song, String Quartet, Tone Poem, Violin, Vocal

Break, Break, Break

Choral / F. 170 / SATB (a cappella) w/divisi / 5'00" / 2016 / PDF file / MP3 file

Tennyson’s poem opens with rather conventional imagery (crashing sea, coldness, grayness). So, too, the music starts with a texture that mimics the endless crashing waves—a cascade of falling voices resolving suspensions only to create new ones: “break, break, break, …” The main narrative is then taken up by the choir in a style that is thick with suspensions that reflect the narrator’s yearning…

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a cappella, Lord Tennyson, SATB, SSAATTBB

Brightest and Best

Choral / F. 169 / SATB (a cappella) / 3'40" / 2015 / PDF file / MP3 file

The Brightest and Best video can also be found on YouTube or on Facebook.  If you like the video, please share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc., and Like it on YouTube or on Facebook. Overview Every Christmas, I get in the mood to write some Christmas music. This is somewhat unfortunate, in that I […]

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a cappella, Christmas, Hymn, Sacred, SATB, Video

I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say

Vocal / F. 167 / Voice, Cello, Piano / 4'10" / 2014 / PDF file / MP3 file

This is one of my favorite hymns. When I was recently presented with the opportunity to play cello in church in the summer of 2014, I quickly settled on doing a new setting of the hymn, scored for voice, cello, and piano.

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Cello, Hymn, Piano, Sacred, Song, Thomas Tallis, Vocal

Reminiscence

Choral / F. 166 / SATB/divisi, Piano / 4'50" / 2014 / PDF file / MP3 file

An emotional journey from poignant remembrance to despair.

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Adela Florence Nicolson, India's Love Lyrics, Piano, SATB

Let All Mortal Flesh

Choral / F. 165 / SATB (a cappella) / 3'00" / 2013 / PDF file / MP3 file

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence is based on the traditional text and Picardy hymn tune for SATB (a cappella) choir, and is suitable for concert choirs and church choirs.

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a cappella, Christmas, Hymn, Picardy, Sacred, SATB

Famine Song

Choral / F. 164 / SATB (a cappella), Drum, Alto solo / 3'10" / 2013 / PDF file / MP3 file

Written in the style of a funeral dirge, Famine Song tells a story of disease, death, and love in late 19th century India.

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a cappella, Adela Florence Nicolson, Alto Solo, Drum, India's Love Lyrics, SATB

Hine Ma Tov

Choral / F. 163 / SATB, Piano / 4'10" / 2012 / PDF file / MP3 fileMP3 fileMP3 file

A new setting of the traditional Hine ma tov Hebrew text.

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Hebrew, Piano, Sacred, SATB

Aus alten Märchen

Choral / F. 162 / SATB (a cappella) / 2'00" / 2013 / PDF file / MP3 file

A charming setting of Heinrich Heine’s (1797-1856) famous poem for unaccompanied SATB choir.

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a cappella, Heinrich Heine, SATB

Let Us Be Merry

Choral / F. 160 / SATB (a cappella) / 3'33" / 2012 / PDF file / MP3 file

A recomposing of William Billings’ A Virgin Unspotted.

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a cappella, A Virgin Unspotted, Christmas, Sacred, SATB, William Billings
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