Written in honor of his late father, Marvin Knox.  The highly emotional and powerful piece is a great center piece for your concert setting.  

SATB divisi, piano, violin solo

$125

6:50 minute

Listen and see the music here:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVtVqZPspNM

The poem Spellbound by Emily Brontë brings her readers into a single moment in time. The readers are trapped with the speaker and the various interpretations as to what spell the speaker has a variety of interpretations. But whatever the spell and for whatever reason, the speaker makes it clear that she is held captive by a spell that immobilizes her even though there seems to be an impending doom. The speaker knows that something dreadful is coming her way, and yet she is unable to move. 

SATB divisi, celeste, crystal glasses, percussion

4:15 minutes

$140 (one time purchase)

Listen and see the music here:

https://youtu.be/fKgS38eAnC0

One of the most charished poems by Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."

The poem was released to public domain in 2019.  Listen to  the entire piece based on Frost's poem, "Miles to go before I sleep"

https://youtu.be/c_Yzaef1hdo

Jacksonville University performance:  https://youtu.be/w2eu9qxm06M

Available for purchase 

$150

Ask for more details at knoxsheetmusic@gmail.com

Sing we Noel was commissioned by the director Christian Clark and the Central Oregon Mastersingers.  The piece had its world premiere in December 2019.  Written for SATB and Brass Quintet

Duration:  6:45

$200

Personent hodie is a Christmas carol originally published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones.  The carol became more prominent in England after being arranged for unison voices and orchestra in 1916 by Gustav Holst (1874–1934), where in its organ reduction it is often used as a processional hymn in church and cathedral services.

James W. Knox adds a rhythmic and triumphant flare to the piece adding three trumpets and percussion.

Duration:  4:00 minutes

$140

Listen and see music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu_Tn5Vz9Pc

Fannie Isabelle Sherrick was an American poet who wrote songs and poems throughout the 1860's that captured hearts and minds. I Can Not Say the Sad Good-Bye was one of her notable songs published in 1873. She was both influenced and encouraged by Ella Wheeler Wilcox who she attributed her success to. Her most popular poetry volume entitled Love or Fame and Other Poems was published in 1880 by W.S Bryan of St Louis and she continued writing for many years. 

Duration:  9 minutes

$220

Listen and see music:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqm4pKX7ZZE

Written for SSAA divisi with harp

Healing Prayer is written for SSAA divisi, Violin, 2 Jew's Harp, Tambourine and Hand Drum

**NEW TTBB version!

Duration: 3:30 minutes

$125

Listen and see music:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olVK8F1ncNQ

Poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Men's Chorus, Piano and Percussion

Duration:  5:40 minutes

$175

‘Lines on Ale’ is believed by some to have been written in 1848 at a tavern in Lowell, Massachusetts. This poem, like many of Poe’s, feels quite personal. What’s different in this one, in comparison to some of his better-known poems, is that it’s focusing on the result of Poe’s sorrow rather than that sorrow itself.  

Listen:  https://youtu.be/PalFXD23eZ0

Written for Men's Chorus, solo and Western Band.

Available in the spring of 2022!

Re-live the Wild West days with stories about Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Belle Starr, Butch Cassidy and John Wesley Hardin.  

Listen to intro:  https://youtu.be/2OgnE74yVdY

This epic setting of The Day of Wrath is available now!

SATB, Brass Quintet, Organ and Percussion

$200

Listen:  https://youtu.be/I9nEb0CB0Z0

A very sweet and beautiful written piece for TTBB and String (Marian Hymns are songs focusing on Mary, mother of Jesus and "Salve Regina" (Hail Holy Queen) is one of the four weel-known antiphons. 

Listen:  https://youtu.be/LoHpcUKARV8

$200

Medieval Dances captures life during a time where life was divided and marked on the basis of factors like status, hereditary, income and others.

Whether nobility, craftsperson or peasant your life was defined by your family, your community and those around you.

Available in late spring, 2022!

https://youtu.be/Z5gK9XG6qoo

(promo video - intro)

Available NOW!

$140

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GjLJay3A98

Choir, Erhu and Percussion

World premiere performance with Ember under the director of Dr. Deborah Simpkin King

https://youtu.be/FY-nkfN02G4

Available in the summer, 2022

Written for Choir, Soprano and Violincello Solo with Piano

Available now!

$140

Listen:  https://youtu.be/Xjal-gwtvsA

Inspired by 2 Peter 3:9

"The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance."

Now available!

$175

Listen:  https://youtu.be/WSmFUuGeE6s

Written for Choir, Electric Bass, Synth Pad and Hand Drums

Here's something outside the box when it comes to choral music! Having a choir sing along with a synth pad with electric bass and hand drums will stand out as a very unique experience for the performers and the audience.  

Listen:  https://youtu.be/c4w7Rsotsj0

$150

Based on the Brothers Grimm Fairy Tale is a timeless classic usually told during Christmas time.  

Score for Choir, String Orchestra, Piano and Percussion

35 minutes, 6 movements

Listen to the first four!

Movement I.

https://youtu.be/lHCGxN27jow

Movement II.  

https://youtu.be/s5Rk8B2vqlA

Movement III.

https://youtu.be/4mbFeTeyPc0

Movement IV.

https://youtu.be/HImWz117l0A

Song of Amergin is an epic Irish tale and is part of the Celtic Mythological Cycle.  Written for Choir, String Orchestra, Uilleann Pipes (optional) and Percussion

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/tT5dRuOFKUg

Duration:  6:30 minutes

$250

This highly rhythmic piece is sure to be a choir/audience favorite.  Written for SATB, Piano, Violoncello and Percussion

Entire work available by request only!

YouTube:  https://youtu.be/G-rG4X8ardw

The poem, 'Sweet and Low' is by the great English poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson.  Please click on the promo video below to hear the first 3:30 minutes.

Entire work will be available in the fall, 2022

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWt24PQAWiU

Written for SATB divisi a cappella Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900) was a 19th century English writer who aligned himself with other literary and artistic figures of the time who were, collectively, called Decadents. In his short lifetime he was a writer of short stories, novelist and poet and he also carried out a number of translations of French novels into English. Dowson's poems often are about tracing the sorrow of unreciprocrated love and are the source of phrases such as "gone with the wind" and "days of wine and roses." The poem, Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam (The brief sum of life forbids us the hope of enduring long), was written in 1896, and was taken from a quotation from one of the Odes of Horace,(Book I, Ode 4, line 15) a well-known Roman poet that lived 65-8 b.c.e 

Duration:  4:00 minutes

FREE under the YouTube description!

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/qN-6EPQtlX4

Written for SATB (divisi), Piano, Electric Bass and Percussion 

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be right here. Victorious! Be stronger than your strongest. You were meant to be right here. This is your time right now. Get out there and take it. Victorious! 

Duration:  3:11 minutes

$130

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/5aVqkOQzSRQ

Written for SATB (divisi) stringed instrument (Mandolin in listening examples) Sythnesizer and Percussion

Psaltic Art is a collection of three ancient Byzantine Hymns

I.  Defte Lai https://youtu.be/Fj_-hzR2YC0

II.  Polyeleos 135 https://youtu.be/uGYcOUgfGwA

III.  Polyeleos 148 https://youtu.be/IgvMfr4D8hc

*Can be performed separately or as a set.  Email for pricing if interested in one or two movements only.

Duration:  9:10 minutes

$250

Silent Night—or Stille Nacht in the original German—was created because Josef Mohr (a foster child who grew up in a Catholic Church in Salzburg) needed a carol for worship. On Christmas Eve of 1818, Mohr visited Gruber with a poem he had written a few years earlier. Franz Gruber (a local school teacher and organist at Old Saint Nicholas Church) quickly arranged the song to be played on a guitar with a choir because the church organ was broken. That evening at Midnight Mass, Gruber strapped on his guitar and led the congregation at St. Nicholas in the first rendition of Silent Night. The original arrangement was a bit faster than the slow, reflective version of the song we know today. Today, Silent Night is perhaps the most famous Christmas carol in history. This arrangement is filled with lush harmonies, but with the intent of keeping it traditional and sweet to the ear. All is Calm (Silent Night)

 SATB, String Quartet, Piano and Percussion 

Duration:  5:52 minutes

$300

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/4cXtS2Nwjs4

Carol of the Bells written for SATB, Strings (quartet), Brass Quintet, Piano and Percussion 

One of the most cherished pieces has a fresh and epic approach!

Duration:  4:12 minutes

$250

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/6ZKuOWHHg9c

Brigid of Kildare, known as Muire na nGael (Mary of the Irish) is the secondary patron national saint of Ireland. She lived from approx 451 to 525 AD. Born of a court-official father and slave mother, she is credited as being Ireland's first nun, founding several monasteries, and with being generous and compassionate, and a peace-maker. There are many legends about her care for people and the earth, working with cows, milking, making butter, brewing, carrying a torch, weaving crosses from rushes and spreading a miraculous cloak. Traditional Hymn to St. Brigid Words by Mother Cecilia, Brigidine Convent, Goresbridge 

Hymn to St. Brigid Far above enthroned in glory Sweetest Saint of Erin’s Isle See thy children kneel before thee Turn on us a Mother’s smile. Sancta Mater, hear our pleading Faith and hope and holy love Sweet St. Brigid, Spouse of Jesus, Sent to us from Heaven above. Sweet St. Brigid, Erin’s children, Far and near o’er land and sea In the world and in the cloister Fondly turn with love to thee. Sancta Mater, sooth the mourner Shield the weary tempted soul Sweet St. Brigid, guide thy children To thy bright and happy home. 

SSAA, Flute (optional) Harp or Piano with Percussion 

Duration:  3:32 minutes

$125

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/gztgGrnXCnY

Get up n' get down! SATB, Bari-Sax, Electric Piano, Electric Bass, Drums, Shekere, Shakers and Cowbell 

First piece of the new vocal pop series

Duration:  3:25 minutes

$125

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/eP-IE7bWBwA

Enjoy this set of J.S. Bach pieces set to a jazz style. Do them as a set or stand alone. 

BWV 558  https://youtu.be/HP_030dirIk

Little Fugue in C minor  https://youtu.be/SVwkbkwcZCs

$75 (each)

A classic that is sure to be the center focus of your concerts!

SATB, solo with piano (optional hand drums)

$120

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/s9BtuTr1BiA

The Balloon of the Mind is scored for SSAA divisi, Flute, Piano, Synthesizer and Percussion. 

A poet's struggle to write is one of the last places one would think to draw inspiration; yet, in W.B. Yeat's poem "The Balloon of the Mind," the narrator does just that. The four-lined poem, using personification, analogy, and an overarching metaphysical conceit (excessive pride in oneself), manages to expose the hard work and dedication required to write a poem. 

The Balloon of the Mind by William Butler Yeats 

Hands, do what you’re bid; Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. 

$115

Duration:  5:36 minutes

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/jjVR9zQiN3Y

Rise! Rise! Lowland and Highland Men is written and dedicated to the Florence Men's Choral Society of South Carolina under the direction of Julian M. Young, Founder/Artistic Director, a fellow Scotsman who shares the same passion of the Scottish people. "When the heart is full the tongue will speak" - Scottish Proverb Alba gu bràth! Rise! rise! Lowland and Highland men from The Ettrick Shepherd by James Hogg (1770-1835) Rise! rise! Lowland and Highland men Bald sire and beardless son, each come, and early Rise! rise! mainland and island men Belt on your broadswords and fight for Prince Charlie Rise! rise! Lowland and Highland men Bald sire and beardless son, each come, and early Rise! rise! mainland and island men Belt on your broadswords and fight for Prince Charlie Down from the mountain steep, up from the valley deep Out from the *clachan, the *bothy, and *shieling Bugle and battle drum bid chief and vassal come Loudly our bagpipes the *pibroch are *pealing Men of the mountains, descendants of heroes Heirs of the fame and the hills of your fathers Say, shall the *Sassenach southron not fear us When fierce to the war-peal each plaided clan gathers Long on the trophied walls of your ancestral halls Rust hath been blunting the armour of *Albin Seize, then, ye mountain *Macs, *buckler and *battle-axe Lads of *Lochaber, *Braemar, and *Breadalbane When hath the tartan plaid mantled a coward When did the *bonnet blue crest the disloyal Up, then, and crowd to the standard of *Stuart Follow your hero, the rightful, the royal Come, Chief of *Clanronald and gallant M'Donald Come *Lovat, *Lochiel, with the Grant, and the *Gordon *Rouse every kilted clan, rouse every loyal man Musket on shoulder and thigh the broad sword on! Rise! rise! Lowland and Highland men Bald sire and beardless son, each come, and early Rise! rise! mainland and island men Belt on your broad claymores - fight for Prince Charlie! 

Duration:  6:12 minutes

$200

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/uMpAhTGfWps

Thy Kingdom Come is a powerful and uplifting piece taken from The Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6: 10 "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" The repetitive nature of the piece invites God's will in the world and opens to what God wants for your life. It also gives a sense of longing of His second coming and fully establishing God's reign forever and ever. 

Written for SSAA, Ney, Piano, Synthesizer and Hand Drums. 

Duration:  3:53 minutes

$130

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/36T6cyZn3JE

The text, "Dona Nobis Pacem" is taken from Agnus Dei of the Latin Mass. Composer, James W. Knox, creates a beautiful -atmospheric sound that gives a sense of longing for peace. The synthesizer used is angelic and the cello soloist sweeping lines makes the melodies soar to the heavens. 

SATB divisi, Cello, Synthesizer 

Duration:  3:25 minutes

$120

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/JhqGmtxTQaE

O Come, O Come Emmanuel is a cinematic setting of the 12th century Advent Hymn. The piece features a cello along with dramatic hand drums. 

SATB, Cello, Piano, Synthesizer, Hand Drums 

Duration:  4:56 minutes

$125

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/oCamuFNXRNA

This somber, yet sweet poem, is written by American poet, Mary Mapes Dodge. Her most noted work, is her children's novel, Hans Brinker. 

SSA with Celesta (piano/organ)

Duration:  3:43 minutes

$80

Snowflakes by Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky It turns and turns to say “good-bye;” “Good-bye, dear cloud, so cool and gray!” Then lightly travels on its way. And when a snowflake finds a tree, “Good-day,” it says —“Good-day to thee! Thou art so bare and lonely, dear, I’ll rest and call my comrades here.” But when a snowflake brave and meek, Lights on a rosy maiden’s cheek, It starts— “How warm and soft the day! ‘Tis Summer!”— and it melts away. 

Listen here:  https://youtu.be/JDG5IkRcgSs

Old Man Winter is a personification of winter, and the name is a common language we use during the winter season. Throughout history, the characters of the "old man" can be seen in both literature and popular culture. He is usually depicted as an old man, often blowing winter over the landscape with his breath, or simply freezing the landscape with his very presence. Composer, James W. Knox, takes an anonymous poem about Jack Frost (another common association with winter) and uses the line, " Old Man Winter, a crystal-coldness tear, Old Man Winter, a winter's night is near." The whimsical piece takes you on a journey of a winter's night! 

Scored for SATB, Piano, Strings, Brass Quintet and Percussion 

Duration:  5:36 minutes

$165

Listen Here:  https://youtu.be/f5VXAHNyjhk

‘The Bells’ by Edgar Allan Poe is a musical poem. In it, the poet depicts the various sounds bells make and the events they symbolize. Composer, James W. Knox, breaks it down into four sections. The first movement, Sleigh Ride is light-hearted, youthful and filled with delight. Poe may have been inspired to write this piece by Marie Louise Shew, who helped care for Poe’s wife while she was dying. She may have suggested to the poet to use ringing bells as the initial starting point from which to write. The poem has a distinct musical quality which was no doubt influenced by the sound and rhythm of the ringing bells. In the first part, Poe describes how the sky, the “heavens” seems to “Twinkle / With a crystalline delight”. Generally, this image is related to one of youth and newness. Everything feels pure, joyful, and new. As the poem progresses, the poem changes drastically and the images get darker, alluding to age. Sleigh Ride (movement one) can be performed separately. The entire poem (other three movements) will be available in the new year, 2024. Written for TBB, Trombone, Piano and Percussion 

Duration:  3:23 minutes

$80

Listen Here:  https://youtu.be/lLGE4MHqo28

‘Warm Summer Sun’ by Mark Twain is a poem that expresses the process of aging and life, all the way to life’s final moments. The wording involved in this representation of life shows that the journey does come with hardships, but it is a beautiful concept. The quickness of the poem mimics, as well, the rapid speed that life can take, so underneath the wonder expressed regarding life, there is also the caution to hold to it fully since it can prove fleeting. From beginning to end, though, the beauty of life remains a grounding theme to this poem. Written for SATB (divisi), Oboe and Piano (also available with Horn in F) 

Duration:  4:50 minutes

$120

Listen Here:  https://youtu.be/9Hvkf3go4wI