Pnina Blake

Music

Choral

All choral pieces have a minimum order of 10 copies. A discount of 50% applies on all subsequent copies ordered, in batches of 10 copies.

Beauty is Before Me

• 2 minutes.
• Settings:
  SSA with piano. Easy.
  SSAA with piano. Easy to moderate.
  SATB with piano. Easy to moderate.

Appreciation and awe of nature from a beautiful Navaho text, ‘in my youth, I am aware of it, and, in old age, I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail’.

Blessings of Peace

• 2:40 minutes.
• Settings:
SATB with descant and piano. Easy.
SATB with violin and cello. Easy.

A simple hymn-like choral tune for Remembrance Day or Chanukah, ‘May blessings of peace descend on our land’. English text.

Candles are Dancing

• 3 minutes.
• Settings:
2 part with descant and piano. Easy. Range, G – D.
SSAA and piano. Moderate. Range, F – A.
SATB and piano. Moderate. Range, F – A.

An infectious, lively tune for Chanukah and Solstice. English text. ‘Flames from the candles dance to and fro, they tell us a tale of long, long ago’.

The Hebrew Blessing

• 2:30 minutes
• Setting: SATB, and piano or organ. Moderate.

The traditional biblical text, ‘The Lord bless thee and keep thee/ The Lord make his face to shine upon thee/ And be gracious unto thee/ The Lord look upon thee with favor and give thee peace’.

Spring Breaks in Foam

• 2 minutes.
• Setting: SSAA a capella. Moderate to difficult.

A lyrical paean to spring with a text by Canadian poet Charles G.D. Roberts. ‘Spring breaks in foam along the blackthorn bough. Whitethroat and goldenwing are mating now’.

Life Has Loveliness to Sell

• 2:50 minutes
• Setting: 2 part. Easy.

Based on Sara Teasdale's evocative poem:

"Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things;
Blue waves whitened on a cliff …

And children’s faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup."

A setting that will work with small choirs as well as large.

Solo Voice

Yiddish Folksongs

Arrangements of six folksongs for solo voice and piano. The original is set for medium voice. Contact me (at ---) and the pieces can be transposed to suit your own voice.

1. Gey Ikh Mir Shpatsieren
• 2:30 minutes.
• See lyrics
2. Shlof Mayn Kind
• 4 minutes.
• See lyrics
3. Der Filozof
• 2 minutes.
• See lyrics
4. Di Goldene Pave
• 3:20 minutes.
• See lyrics
5. Mayn Harts Veynt in Mir
• 4 minutes.
• See lyrics
6. Rozhinkes mit Mandlen
• 2:20 minutes.

• Cost per individual song: $2.65
• Cost for set: $12.65
• No minimum order.

Piano

Prayer

• 2:20 minutes
• Cost per copy: $2.65

A contemplative piece with a folk-like tune. Easy to moderate.

Instrumental

Variations on a Yiddish Lullaby

• Flute and Harp
• 4 minutes
• Easy to moderate.
• Cost per copy: $2.65

Elegant simplicity and haunting loveliness.