David P. DeVenney
Conductor and Scholar
Music and Recordings

For the scores below:
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Published Music
    
Black is the Color       
SATB, piano  

(Yelton Rhodes Music, #YR3D11)

Spring Song
SSA, piano  
(Yelton Rhodes Music, #YR3D12)

The Drunken Sailor
SATB (Roger Dean Publishing Co., No. 15/2448R)   

Mass in D (ed.), by John Knowles Paine.  SATB soli, chorus, and orchestra. Serenissima Music, No. Z8002 [vocal score]. A new critical performing edition of one of the greatest nineteenth-century American masterpieces, long unavailable in a reliable, readable edition.  Orchestral score and parts in preparation. (Listen and watch excerpts from the Mass on YouTube by clicking here.)



Editions Available for Download and Performance
Benjamin Carr.  Gloria from Mass in Three Parts.  STB, organ

George Chadwick.
A Child Is Born in Bethlehem, SATB

William Wallace Gilchrist.  
To Song, SATB divisi, piano
                                     
Three Christmas Carols, SATB, piano
    
Marc-Antonio Ingegneri. Tenebrae factae sunt, SATB

Biagio Marini. 
Gite sospiri miei (Concerto Terzo, 1649), SATB, 2 
    violins, trombones, continuo.

Claudio Monteverdi. 
Non morir, Seneca (Coronation of Poppea), TBB,
    strings

G. P. da Palestrina, Ave Maria, TTBB

George F. Root,
Two Carols from "Bethlehem," SATB, piano

Franz Schubert.  Two Songs, Op. 11, TTBB and guitar or piano

    
Die Nachtigall  (click here for guitar part only)
     Geist der Liebe  (click here for guitar part only)



Unpublished Music
Ev'ry Night When the Sun Goes Down   
("Ev'ry Night"/"Deep River")
Difficult.  SATB unaccompanied

My Johnny
("When Johnny Comes Marching Home"/"Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier")
Medium. SSA, flute, piano    


Polly Wolly Doodle
Easy. SATB, piano    

Ride On, King Jesus
Medium.  SATB unaccompanied
              TTBB unaccompanied  
   

She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain
Easy.  SATB, piano  

Shenandoah
("Shenandoah"/"Amazing Grace")
Difficult.  SATB unaccompanied 
    

Wade in the Water
("Wade in the Water"/"Down by the Riverside")
Easy.  SATB, piano   


The Water is Wide
Medium.  SATB double choir unaccompanied     

Were You There?
Medium.  TTBB unaccompanied   
(Any arrangement not commercially published is available for a small fee, granting performance rights and the ability to make and retain multiple copies.  For more information, contact Dr. DeVenney at ddevenney@wcupa.edu.)


Commercial Recordings
 
David Maslanka: Mass (2 CDs)
University of Arizona Wind Ensemble, UA Choirs
Albany Records, No. Troy 221-22

The Wishing Tree: Choral Music of Robert Maggio
WCU Concert Choir (and others)
Albany Records, No. Troy 645

Conducting Choirs: Music for Classroom Use
Roger Dean Publishing (2 CDs to accompany textbook).
WCU Concert Choir, 2010.



Private Recordings
       
In Harmony of Spirit
WCU Concert Choir, 1998.  Music by Handl, Ingegneri, Scarlatti, Verdi, Maggio, others.

Ye Shall Have a Song
WCU Concert Choir, 2001. Christmas music, others.

Praise, Joy, and Peace: Choral Music of Helen Trentham Campbell
WCU Concert Choir, 2004.

Wade in the Water
WCU Concert Choir, 2004.  DPD folk song arrangements, others.

Sweet Reminders: The Choral Music of James G. Kantor
WCU Concert Choir, 2009.