Swan-Cross Name

The music of Charles O. Beck

Choral Music at Swan-Cross

If symphonic music is my first love as a composer (as it is), my undisputed second love is choral music.

I have always loved singing in a choir, ever since my first experiences as a boy. That love has continued through the years, as both a singer, later a music teacher, and still later, the director of a community choir.

So, it is no surprise that a good part of my output as a composer is in the genre of Choral Music. I offer here a selection of my better works in that realm.

The pieces are grouped by voicing:

SATB

SAB

Miscellaneous other

About the recordings

These recordings are currently made available for streaming and free download. All I ask is that you copy them only for your own listening pleasure and not copy them for others. Instead, direct your friends and family to this website, where they can check the music out for themselves.

Of course, making and distributing copies of this music for your own personal gain is a violation of copyright and moral law. Please, just don't do it.

If you are interested in performing any of these choral works, please contact Swan-Cross directly. All works have available both conductor's score and instrumental parts (mostly available on the piece's page), but some are supplied only on request.

“Qui cantat laudem non solum cantat, sed et amat eum quem cantat.”
(He who sings praise is not only singing, but also loving Him whom he is singing about/to/for.)

— St. Augustine of Hippo
Corpus Christianorum
Latinorum, vol. 39