David Ashley White

David Ashley White's sacred and secular compositions are widely performed and published. Sources for his frequent commissions include Piccolo Spoleto, the Texas Chamber Orchestra, the Mirecourt Trio, the Green Lake Festival, the Concert Chorale of Houston, Del Mar College, the University of Houston, the Houston Harpsichord Society, Houston Masterworks Chorus, the Houston Chamber Choir, and a number of churches and individuals. Since 1980 he has received the ASCAP Award for music composition.

White's vocal and instrumental music is recorded on several labels, including Music and Arts, World Library, Paraclete Press, and Zephyr. The latter is a new recording, Echoes of the American Cathedral, of a selection of his sacred choral music, sung by the St. Paul's Choir, Houston, led by Robert Brewer and Frances Anderson. Other recordings are forthcoming.

White is currently resident composer for the Houston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In 1991 and 1995 he was composer-in-residence at the Mississippi Conference on Music and Liturgy, as he was in July 1998 at the Evergreen Church Music Conference in Colorado. White was winner of the 1993 composition contest sponsored by St. Paul United Church of Christ, Chicago (Cantate Domino for mixed voices, brass, and organ, published by Paraclete Press), and has won first prizes from the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, the Virginia Bandmasters Association, and the Texas Federation of Music Clubs. In June 1998 White's The Blue Estuaries for mixed chorus a cappella, commissioned by the Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson, conductor, was premiered at the national conference of Chorus America. The work, published by E.C. Schirmer, was sung again by the same ensemble at the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association held in Chicago in February 1999.

White's secular publishers, in addition to E.C. Schirmer, are Southern Music Company and Shawnee Press, and his sacred publishers include Selah, Paraclete, St. James, Abingdon, Trinitas, Concordia, Augsburg Fortress, Music 70 (Warner-Chappell), Randall M. Egan (The Kenwood Press), Choristers Guild, Hinshaw, and Morningstar. His hymns are found in a number of books, including The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal), the recently published supplement to that book, Wonder, Love, and Praise, The United Methodist Hymnal, Japan's Hymnal for the United Church of Christ, and Great Britain's Worship Songs Ancient and Modern. A collection of his hymns, Sing My Soul: The David Ashley White Hymnal, was published in 1996 by Selah Publishing Co., and a new collection, Songs for a New Creation: New Hymns of David Ashley White, was published in 2003.

Holding a B.M. (oboe performance) and M.M. (composition) from the University of Houston, White received the D.M.A in composition from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the new director of the University of Houston's Moores School of Music, where he is also professor of composition and theory.

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Congregational Song publications
New! New Harmony: A Harp of Thousand Strings (125-427)
Sing My Soul: The Hymns of David Ashley White (125-026)
Songs for a New Creation: New Hymns of David Ashley White (125-027)

Choral octavos
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O Love of God (David Ashley White, Unison choir, violin, 410-633, Mod. easy)
The Earth Is the Lord's (Unison voices, keyboard, opt. cong., 410-824)
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Behold Now, Bless the Lord (SATB or SA/TB and organ, 410-870)
Best seller! Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (Two-part and organ, 410-652)
New! Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus (White, Two-part, organ, 405-144, Mod. easy)
Earth Has Many a Noble City (Two-part choir and organ, 405-322)
Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive (Two-part choir and keyboard, 410-611)
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (Two-part, keyboard, opt. flute/violin, 405-236)
Into the Woods My Master Went (David Ashley White, Two-part, kybd., 405-477, Mod. easy)
No More a Stranger or a Guest (White, Two-pt., C inst., bells or kybd., 410-833, Mod. easy)
The Kingdom of Love (Two-part, flute or recorder, keyboard, percussion, 405-128, Mod. easy)
Tide of Angels (White, Two-part and handbells, mod. diff., 405-279)
What Star Is This (Praetorious, arr. White, Two-pt. choir, organ, opt. cong., 405-344, Easy)
Wherefore, O Maker (White, Two-part, oboe/C inst., organ, 420-515)
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Alleluia, Song of Gladness (David Ashley White, SAB/SATB, bells, perc., 405-525, Mod. easy)
And His Gifts (David Ashley White, SAB, organ, 410-521, Mod. easy)
Best seller! Promised Land (David Ashley White, SAB, kybd., flute, percussion, opt. cong., 425-817, Mod. easy)
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Alleluia, Song of Gladness (David Ashley White, SAB/SATB, bells, perc., 405-525, Mod. easy)
Amarillo Canticles, The (Magnificat and Nunc dimittis) (David Ashley White, SATB, organ, 410-944, Difficult)
Best seller! Amazing Grace (SATB, oboe/C inst., organ, 420-733)
As Panting Deer (SATB and organ, 410-842)
Away in a Manger (David Ashley White, SATB, kybd., flute/oboe, violin, 405-238, Mod. easy)
Behold, He Came (Mixed voices and keyboard, 405-208)
Behold Now, Bless the Lord (SATB or SA/TB and organ, 410-870)
Be Thou My Vision (David Ashley White, SATB, kybd., 410-625, Mod. easy)
Bright the Cloud (White, SATB, organ, opt. brass quartet, 415-804)
Christians, We Have Met to Worship (SATB and keyboard, 410-621)
Come Away to the Skies (White, SATB a cappella, 405-555, Mod. diff.)
Come Down, O Love Divine (White, SATB, tpt. organ, opt. cong., 405-619, Mod. easy)
New! Come, Holy Spirit (White, SATB, organ, flute, 405-659, Mod. easy)
Comfort, Comfort Ye My People (Mixed voices a cappella, 405-152)
Deo Gracias: Fauxbourdon Harmonizations (SATB, 415-702)
God So Loved the World (SATB a cappella, 410-516)
Hilariter (The Whole Bright World Rejoices Now) (David Ashley White, SATB, organ, flute, finger cymbals, 405-511, Mod. difficult)
Holy Spirit, Revive Your Church (SATB and organ, 405-636)
Hope Is the Harrowing (SATB and keyboard, 420-622)
How Many Wonders (David Ashley White, SATB and organ, 410-656, Mod. easy)
Is a Murmuring Dove Nearby (SATB and organ, 405-251, Mod. easy)
It Came upon the Midnight Clear (SATB, keyboard, opt. cong., 405-268)
Jubilate (Psalm 100) (SATB and organ, 410-810, Difficult) Psalm 100
O Heavenly Word (SATB a cappella, 405-117)
Our Help Comes From the Lord (SATB, brass quintet, and organ, 410-663)
Our Holy Tribute, This (SATB a cappella, 410-627)
Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above (David Ashley White, SATB, organ, 410-806, Mod. diff.)
Preces and Responses (David Ashley White, SATB, cantor, and organ, 410-955, Mod. easy)
New! Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us (White, SATB, organ, 420-249, Mod. easy)
Star in the East (SATB, organ, opt. percussion, 405-316)
Tell the News! (David Ashley White, SATB, organ, 405-564, Mod. easy)
The Call (SATB and organ, 418-606)
The Lord My Shepherd (SATB, oboe or C inst., organ, 410-823)
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy (SATB and organ, 420-243)
This Is a Day of New Beginnings (SATB, organ, opt. cong., 425-871, Mod. diff.)
True Anointed One (SATB and organ, 405-388)
Two Fragments from Song of Solomon (White, SATB and piano, 222-221)
Upward Call, The (White, SATB, organ, 410-523)
Without the Fire (SATB and organ, 410-275)
Your Love, O God/Sweet Is the Day (David Ashley White, SATB, organ, 410-881, Mod. easy)

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Alleluia (SSAATTBB, 410-931)

Recording
Echoes of the American Cathedral: Music of David Ashley White

Organ/Keyboard publications
Aria (David Ashley White, organ solo, 160-680, Mod. easy)
Brewer's Trumpet (David Ashley White, organ solo, 160-822, Mod. easy.)
New! Fanfare for St. Anthony (David Ashley White, organ solo, 160-659, mod. diff.)
For the Means of Grace & for the Hope of Glory (David Ashley White, organ solo, 160-835, Mod. diff.)
New! Night Cries (David Ashley White, organ solo, 160-850, difficult)

Vocal Solos
Easter Wings (David Ashley White, Medium-high voice and piano, 430-411, Mod. diff.)
Frontier Songs (David Ashley White, High voice and piano, 430-870, Mod. diff.)