Instrumental:
Thanks to SibeliusMusic.Com and their free Scorch® Plug-In, you can now examine, hear, purchase and print the sheet music to many of Vern Nelson's compositions online! What is available so far is a sampling of some of his most popular and frequently-performed instrumental, secular and religious compositions and arrangements:
Instrumental:
"From the Pathetique Sonata"
for tuba and piano
(FREE; arrangement from
Beethoven)
SONATA
FOR 2 TUBAS, mvt. 1 ,
mvt.
2, and
mvt.
3 (you can also click here to hear a
better Midi file of the Sonata))
"Barcarolle"
from Killer Tuba Songs (tuba and piano)
Much more coming soon!
Vocal
(secular):
THREE LATIN-AMERICAN SONGS, arranged for
children's choir(or treble choir) a cappella:
1. La
Pájara Pinta
2.
Señora
Santana
3. La
Cucaracha
TEN LATIN-AMERICAN FOLK SONGS, arranged
for voice and piano:
1. La
Zandunga
2. La
Noche Está Serena
3. O
Brillante Estrella (also a Christmas song)
4.
Arroyo
Claro
5.
Niño
Lindo (also a Christmas song)
6. A
La Ru (also a Christmas song)
7.
Señora
Santana
8.
Cielito
Lindo
9. La
Llorona
10.
Lucumí
THE POSADAS: Mexican Christmas carol/medley arranged for choir, guitar and flute (commissioned by the Santa Ana High School choir 2001, dir. Cathy Cobb-Woll)
More coming soon!
Religious:
In A Still Small Whisper (Christmas song for children's choir)
Joy To The World! Concertato on Antioch for choir, congregation, brass quintet, organ and timpani
"Bilingual Christmas Aleluya" for SATB & piano (actually verse #46 of the Misa Tejana Aleluya)
"Bilingual Easter Vigil Aleluya" for SATB & piano (actually verse #55 of the Misa Tejana Aleluya)
"Bilingual Wedding Aleluya" for voice & piano (actually verse #38 of the Misa Tejana Aleluya)
"From Zion" version of Psalm 128 for weddings, for voice and piano (or two guitars)
From THE LONE STAR PSALTER
(Vern's legendary collection of 100 Psalm Responsorials):
1.
Harden
Not Your Hearts (from Psalm 95)
2.
His
Saving Power (from Psalm 98)
3.
Help
From the Lord (from Psalm 121)
4.
Lord
We Are the People (from Psalm 24)
5.
When
Your Glory Appears (from Psalm 17)
6.
Rule
With Justice (from Psalm 98)
7. A
Prayer for Jerusalem (from Psalm 122)
8.
Thanksgiving
Psalm (from Psalm 67--GREAT CHORAL PIECE!)
9.
The
Lord Will Bless His People With Peace (from Psalm 29)
10. I
Come To Do Your Will (from Psalm 40)
11.
Whom
Should I Fear? (from Psalm 27)
12.
Happy
The Poor In Spirit (from Psalm 148)
13.
The
Just Woman (from Psalm 112)
15.
Kind
and Merciful (from Psalm 103)
17.
Ash
Wednesday Psalm (from Psalm 51)
18.
Let
Your Mercy Be On Us (from Psalm 33)
19.
Psalm
23
20.
There
Is Mercy (from Psalm 130)
21.
Psalm
22 (for Palm or Passion Sunday)
22.
Our
Blessing-Cup (from Psalm 116, for HOLY THURSDAY))
23.
Good
Friday Psalm (from Psalm31)
24.
The
Goodness of the Lord (from Psalm 33; #1 from the Easter Vigil
Suite)
25.
Keep
Me Safe (from Psalm 16; #2 from the Easter Vigil Suite)
25B.
Guárdame
(Spanish-language version of Keep Me Safe)
26.
Covered
in Glory (from Exodus 15; #3 from the Easter Vigil
Suite)
27.
Rescue (from
Psalm 30; #4 from the Easter Vigil Suite)
28.
Draw
Water Joyfully (from Isaiah 12; #5 from the Easter Vigil
Suite)
29.
Words
of Everlasting Life (from Psalm 19; #6 from the Easter Vigil
Suite)
30. A
Clean Heart (from Psalm 51; #7 from the Easter Vigil
Suite)
31.
Easter
Psalm (from Psalm 118)
32.
His
Love is Everlasting (from Psalm 118)
33.
The
Path To Life (from Psalm 16)
34.
Earth
Cry Out! (from Psalm 66)
35.
Ascension
Psalm (from Psalm 47)
36.
In
The Land Of The Living (from Psalm27)
37.
Pentecost
Psalm (from Psalm 104)
46.
The
Hand of the Lord (from Psalm 145)
49.
The
Queen Stands At Your Right Hand (from Psalm 45; for the
ASSUMPTION)
51.
My
Soul is Thirsting (from Psalm 63)
59.
Walk
In His Ways (from Psalm 128--Also good for WEDDINGS)
60.
Wedding-Psalm
#1 "The Lord is Compassionate" (from Psalm 145)
61.
Advent
Song (from Psalm 80)
63.
Brand
New Song (from Psalm 98--GREAT CHORAL PIECE!)
64.
El
Todopoderoso (from Mary's Magnificat, in Luke--Spanish refrain &
English verses)
64B.
El
Todopoderoso (all-Spanish version)
66.
Christmas
Psalm (from Psalm 97--GREAT CHORAL PIECE!)
67.
May
God Bless Us In His Mercy (from Psalm 67)
68.
Epiphany
Psalm (from Psalm 72)
77.
Prueben
Y Vean (bilingual "Taste and See") from Psalm 34
99.
Wedding-Psalm
#2 :Let All Praise the Name of the Lord! (from Psalm 148)
100.
Para
Siempre Cantaré (bilingual setting of Psalm 89 for Christmas
Vigil):
vocal
& piano version
CHORAL
version
MUCH more coming soon!
Info
& clips from other Nelson
compositions:
LONE STAR LITURGICAL MUSIC (religious compositions)
("Spirit Jam", from Vern's Pentecost cantata Veni Creator Spiritus)