Free PDFs

You are welcome to download any of the compositions on this website for free, and they may be used in any performance at no charge.  It is requested that a printed program of the performance(s) be sent to:

James Vernon  500 West University Drive, Shawnee, Oklahoma 74804  or

Digitally emailed to james.vernon@okbu.edu.

AVAILABLE COMPOSITIONS (revised July 2017)

A_LOVE_POEM

For unaccompanied T.T.B.B. Men’s Choir.  Composed in 2012 for the Bison Glee Club of Oklahoma Baptist University.  Text (used by permission) by Benjamin Myers.

Three Sacred Songs

For Soprano Voice and Piano.  Composed in 2013, these songs use texts by John Donne.

Belief in Beauty

For unaccompanied S.S.A.A. Women’s Choir.  Composed in 2015 in memory of Kristen Stauffer Todd.  Text by Amy Lowell.

Christmas Bells SSA

Composed in 1996.  For S.S.A. Women’s Choir with piano accompaniment.  Texts from a Ukranian Folk Song, and by H.W. Longfellow and E.A. Poe.  This work originally for S.A.T.B. Choir; S.A.T.B version available on request.

The Crown of Roses

Composed in 2017, for Soprano Voice and Piano.  Text by A.N. Plescheev.  Available in March 2018.

Love Song

For SSA Women’s Voices with Piano Accompaniment.  Composed in 2017 for the Western Oklahoma Choral Directors Association Treble Chorus.

Elegy for Trains

For SSAA Women’s Voices, Brass Ensemble, and Piano.  Poetry by Benjamin Myers.  Composed in 2014.

The Glow From That Fire

For Mixed Chorus and Orchestra, Narrator, and Alto Soloist.  Composed in 2012-2013.  Texts from the Catholic Requiem Mass and the 1961 Presidential Inaugural Speech of John F. Kennedy.

A Porcelain Doll

An American Opera in Two Acts (2 and 1/2 hours in length).  Composed in 2015-2016.  Libretto by Brent Newsom.  The story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf-blind person to learn language.   For reduced orchestra of Marimba, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Percussion, and Strings.