ABRAHAM KAPLAN
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Compositions
The compositions of Abraham Kaplan are listed below, in three categories:
Choral Works (with or without orchestra)
Solo Vocal Works (including songbooks arranged from choral works)
Instrumental Works (including orchestral works)
Within each category, more recent works are listed first.
For further information regarding any of Abraham Kaplan’s works, please contact us.
Choral Works
(with or without orchestra)
Coming Soon: Best Loved Poems (2018)
PDF movements available for purchase.
PDF licensing options available: $9.00 for complete score, $0.99 per movement. Please contact us to arrange a license.
For mixed chorus and piano. Movements may be performed separately.
1. I Never Saw a Moor
2. It Couldn’t Be Done
3. If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking
4. The Arrow and the Song
5. Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
6. The Lost Chord
7. Solitude
8. The Blind Men and the Elephant
9. The Mirror
10. The Old Oaken Bucket
11. The Star
Wisdom of the Ages (2017)
Abe’s Songbook, Volume I
FREE DOWNLOAD: Wisdom of the Ages (PDF, 3MB, 2017-12-14 revision)
Three- and Four-part rounds (canons) for choir, with optional piano accompaniment, guitar chords included.
Canons include: Carpe Diem, Dreams, Fear, Great Spirits, It Is Astonishing, After the Flea, All That Glitters, Camel, Genius, Gold, Good Actions, Spokesmen, The Four Agreements, Gratitude, Humanity, Love and Music, Neither a Lender Be, Anger, Envy, He Who Lives, Kindness, Do a Little Well, Learn, Melody, Nonsense, Winter, Wisdom.
Each round is based on a single quote from sources such as Berlioz, Cameron Diaz, Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, FDR, Shakespeare, the Bible, and traditional sayings.
Errata for the original version (pre-2017-12-14 revision): Wisdom of the Ages Errata (PDF)
Lincolnesque (2015)
Vocal score available for purchase
PDF licensing options available: $4.00 for complete score, $0.99 per movement. Please contact us to arrange a license.
For mixed chorus and piano, with optional trumpet.
Movements may be performed separately.
Trumpet part is included in the vocal score.
1. The Gettysburg Address
2. The New Colossus
3. If—
4. Mortality
5. The Last Words of David
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s (2013)
Shir Hashirim Asher Lishlomo
Vocal score available for purchase (Printed and PDF)
A Dance Suite, for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and small instrumental ensemble (or piano).
Instrumentation: oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon, contrabassoon, percussion (one player), violoncello, and double bass.
For information regarding full score and instrumental parts, please contact us. To be sung in Hebrew and English.
1. Overture
2. The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's
3. Let him kiss me
4. Whither is thy beloved gone
5. The voice of my beloved
6. Behold, thou art fair, my love
7. Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness
8. I am black and comely
9. I am my beloved's
10. Look not upon me, because I am black
11. Thou hast ravished my heart
12. Set me as a seal upon your heart
Eight Days of Chanukah (2010)
Vocal score available from JW Pepper.com and from Transcontinental Music Publishers
For mixed chorus and keyboard.
Movements may be performed separately, and either with or without accompaniment.
Nos. 2 & 8 are also available for small orchestra: horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, and strings.
For information regarding full score and instrumental parts, please contact us.
1. Haneirot halalu
2. Blessings for Chanukah ("Baruch atah, Adonai")
3. Maoz tzur
4. Mamlakha
5. Am ne'emaney
6. Heikhalo
7. Malki
8. Ikhlu
Now available: Errata for Eight Days of Chanukah
FREE SONGBOOK: Eight Days of Chanukah Songbook
The Arrow and the Song (2001)
Vocal score available as free download. Click here.
For mixed chorus and piano. This work is currently under revision, please let us know about any performances!
Give me your tired, your poor (2001)
Vocal score available as free download. Click here.
For mixed chorus and piano. This work is currently under revision, please let us know about any performances!
I never saw a moor (2001)
Vocal score available as free download. Click here.
For mixed chorus and piano. This work is currently under revision, please let us know about any performances!
If I can stop one heart from breaking (2001)
Vocal score available as free download. Click here.
For mixed chorus and piano. This work is currently under revision, please let us know about any performances!
It couldn't be done (2001)
Vocal score available as free download. Click here.
For mixed chorus and piano. This work is currently under revision, please let us know about any performances!
Solitude (2001)
Vocal score available as free download. Click here.
For mixed chorus and piano. This work is currently under revision, please let us know about any performances!
The Star (2001)
Vocal score available as free download. Click here.
For mixed chorus and piano. This work is currently under revision, please let us know about any performances!
The K’dusha Symphony (1981)
Recording available for purchase
A Vocal Symphony, for soloists, mixed chorus, and symphony orchestra.
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 3 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, harp, percussion (3 players), and strings.
For information regarding full score, vocal score, and instrumental parts, please contact us.
Commissioned by the Tober family in memory of the late Abraham E. Tober and Anna Tober to celebrate and mark the observance of St. Louis Congregation B’nei Abraham's 100th anniversary.
I. Vision and Praise
1. Vaer’e
2. Overture
3. Nakdishach
4. Ledor vador
II. Love and Knowledge of God
5. Love Song
6. O everyone that thirsteth
7. Happy is the man
8. She is the tree of life
9. Set me as a seal
III. Sanctification
10. Keter
11. We will revere thee
12. El Adon
13. Through all generations
Crystal Cathedral Psalms (1980)
Vocal score available for purchase
For mixed chorus and small orchestra (or piano).
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, bassoon, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, harp, percussion (2 players), and strings.
For information regarding full score and instrumental parts, please contact us.
Commissioned by the Crystal Cathedral Ministries, Dr. Robert Shuller, founder, and Arvella Schuller, for the formal dedication of the Crystal Cathedral on September 14, 1980.
1. Hallelujah, with songs of joy
2. I lift my eyes
3. The heavens are telling
Psalms of Abraham (1979)
Vocal score (SSA) available for purchase (Printed and PDF)
Vocal score (SATB) available for purchase (Printed and PDF)
Recording available for purchase (CD)
For tenor and soprano soloists, chorus of treble voices (or mixed voices), and small orchestra.
For information regarding full score and instrumental parts, please contact us.
Movements may be performed separately, and in either Hebrew or English.
Commissioned for the Beth Abraham Youth Chorale, Dayton, Ohio, and its director, Cantor Jerome B. Kopmar, by Mr. and Mrs. Keath A. Saeks and family in memory of beloved parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Saeks and Mr. Sol Arnovitz, and in honor of beloved mother, Sara Lee Arnovitz.
Version for mixed voices arranged in 2000 for the Vienna Choir Boys (Wiener Sängerknaben) and Chorus Viennensis.
Overture
1. By the rivers of Babylon (Al naharot Bavel)
2. I will sing to the Lord [I] (Tov lehodot)
3. Give thanks to our loving God (Hodu La'Adonay)
4. Alleluia! (Halleluya)
5. I lift mine eyes (Esa eynay)
6. Song of the ascents (Shir hama’alot)
7. Behold how good (Hiney ma-tov)
8. For man's days are as the grass (Enosh kechatsir yamav)
9. I will sing to the Lord [II] (Tov lehodot)
10. They that sow in tears (Hazor’im bedim'a)
11. Unto thee, O Lord, do I long (Adonay ro-I)
12. Lift up your heads, O ye gates (Seu shearim)
Who is like thee (1978)
Mi chamocha
For mixed chorus and piano.
Score not currently in print. For more information, please contact us.
Arvit Leshabat (1977)
Sabbath Evening Service
Vocal score available for purchase (Printed and PDF)
Recording available for purchase (CD)
For mixed chorus, cantor (tenor soloist), and symphony orchestra.
For information regarding full score and instrumental parts, please contact us.
Instrumentation: 2 flutes (second doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (doubling oboi d'amore if possible), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, percussion (3 players), harp, and strings.
May be performed with orchestral or organ accompaniment. Most of the work can also be performed without accompaniment.
Commissioned by the Choral Society of Temple Emanuel, Paterson, New Jersey, Dr. David H. Panitz, Rabbi.
1. Dimdumim
2. Ma-tovu
3. Lechu neranena
4. Lecha dodi
5. Mizmor shir
5a. Tsadik katamar
6. Barchu
7. Ahavat olam
8. Shma Yisraeyl
9. Mi-chamocha
10. Hashkiveynu
11. Veshamru
12. Chatsi kaddish
13. Amida
14. Yihyu leratson
15. Veychulu
16. Retsey
17. Kiddush
18. Yigdal
Addendum for 9. Mi-chamocha is available (included with new Vocal Score sales):
The Lord’s Prayer (1976)
For mixed chorus and piano (or string orchestra).
Score not currently in print. For more information, please contact us.
Glorious (1974)
Vocal score available for purchase (Printed and PDF)
Recording available for purchase (CD)
For mixed chorus and instrumental ensemble (or piano). The twelve numbers are intended as separate compositions, though they are published in one volume.
Instrumentation of the full volume: flute, guitar (optional), percussion (2 players), harp, piano, organ, and string bass. Vocal score may serve as full score. For information regarding instrumental parts, please contact us.
1. Halleluya, praise the Lord! Amen
2. Have mercy upon me
3. I will lift mine eyes unto the hills
4. The Lord is my shepherd
5. My heart is not haughty
6. O my son Absalom
7. Out of the depths
8. Praise ye
9. Sing unto the Lord a new song
10. So God created man
11. So the sun stood still
12. To everything there is a season
Solo Vocal Works
(including songbooks arranged from choral works)
Glorious (1974/2015)
Songbook currently in development (expected by November 2017)
For solo voice and piano. Based on the work for chorus and small instrumental ensemble, composed in 1974. Solo vocal version arranged in 2015.
The twelve numbers are intended as separate compositions, though they are published in one volume.
1. Halleluya, praise the Lord! Amen
2. Have mercy upon me
3. I will lift mine eyes unto the hills
4. The Lord is my shepherd
5. My heart is not haughty
6. O my son Absalom
7. Out of the depths
8. Praise ye
9. Sing unto the Lord a new song
10. So God created man
11. So the sun stood still
12. To everything there is a season
Instrumental Works
(including orchestral works)
Symphony No. 2, "Classical" (2003)
Instrumentation: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, percussion (4 players), and strings.
For more information regarding this work, please contact us.
I. Homage to F.B.M.
II. A Song of Thanksgiving
III. Homage to F.J.H.
Fanfare for Twelve Biblical Trumpets (1980)
For more information regarding this work, please contact us.
Two-Part Inventions for Piano (1976)
For piano solo.
Intended as twelve separate compositions, but may be grouped for concert purposes.
Score not currently in print. For more information, please contact us.
1. Walking Through the Woods
2. March
3. Dance
4. Topsy Turvy
5. Lullaby
6. Hobby-Horse
7. Boat Ride
8. The Toy Soldier
9. Minuet
10. Skipping Along
11. The Kangaroo
12. South of the Border
Twelve Light Duets for Flutes (1976)
For two flutes.
Intended as twelve separate compositions, but may be grouped for concert purposes.
Score not currently in print. For more information, please contact us.