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OUP's choral publishing is admired worldwide and includes an impressive collection of anthologies for every type of choir. These volumes include all the vital standard repertoire plus less well-known works and have become indispensible to singers worldwide.
A uniquely accessible and comprehensive resource for use in church services and concerts throughout the Church's year. The volume's 50 SATB pieces, both accompanied and unaccompanied, are suitable choirs of all sizes and abilities.
Provides an excellent choice of pieces for the Principal Feasts champions new, approachable, and unjustly neglected repertoire spanning all periods and traditions, whilst avoiding widely available or difficult music includes many previously unpublished or newly commissioned anthems, arrangements, and editions by important composers and church musicians contains useful musical and liturgical introductions in addition to full indexes, glossaries of additional uses for the repertoire, and listings of other suitable pieces not included in the book
Title: Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs
Series: …for Choirs Collections
Editors / Compilers: Malcolm Archer and John Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press , Oxford, England
Level: easy to moderately difficult
Price: £16.50 - Paperback edition (As at 04/12/2019)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-353026-3
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Publication date and place: 2004 04 November, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
Price: £20.95 - Spiral bound edition (As at 04/12/2019)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-335580-4
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Publication date and place: 2006 29 June, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
Voicing of works: SATB accompanied & unaccompanied
Contents
Number
Title
Composer/Source
Editor
Seasonal use
1
Arise, Shine O Jerusalem
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Francis Jackson and Philip Moore (adapted)
2
Behold the Lord, the ruler is come
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Francis Jackson and Philip Moore (adapted)
Epiphany
3
Bethlehem, of noblest cities
Malcolm Archer
Epiphany
4
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
Malcolm Archer
Epiphany
5
It was a star
Howard Skempton
6
Lo! star-led chiefs
William Crotch
John Scott, (organ part trans.)
Epiphany
7
Magi veniunt ab oriente
Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
Epiphany
8
Surge Illuminare
Huw Williams
Epiphany
9
The Journey
Simon Lole
10
Tribus miraculis
Luca Marenzio
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
Epiphany
11
Hodie beata Virgo
William Byrd
Candlemas
12
Maria das Jungfräuelein
Johannes Eccard
Candlemas
13
Nunc Dimittis
Philip Moore
Candlemas
14
Nunc Dimittis
Thomas Tallis
Rice (ed.)
Candlemas
15
Phos Hilaron
Alexander Flood
16
Prayer for the blessing of light
Malcolm Archer
17
Angelus ad Virginem
Anon
John Scott and Malcolm Archer (arr.)
Annunciation / Christmas
18
Ave, Maria
Edward Elgar
19
Ave Maris Stella
Peter Crump
20
Dixit Maria
Hans Leo Hassler
John Rutter (ed.)
Annunciation
21
Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary
Charles Wood (arr.)
Annunciation
22
Ne timeas Maria
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
23
Nova! nova!
John Scott
Annunciation
24
Ascendens Christus
Jacob Handl
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
Ascension
25
Hail the day that sees him rise
Alan Bullard
Ascension
26
He that descended
John Amner
Greening (ed.)
27
O clap your hands
Judith Bingham
Ascension
28
O God, the King of glory
Henry Purcell
Charles Wood (ed.)
Ascension
29
The Lord ascendeth up on high
Michael Praetorius
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
Ascension
30
Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost
Richard Lloyd
Pentecost
31
Holy Spirit, ever dwelling
Herbert Howells
Malcolm Archer (arr. and descant)
Pentecost
32
Holy Spirit, truth divine
Andrew Carter
Pentecost
33
If ye love me
Philip Ledger
Maundy Thursday / Easter / Easter 6
34
O Spirit all-embracing
Joel Martinson
Milsom (ed.)
35
Song 44 (Come, Holy Ghost)
Orlando Gibbons
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
Pentecost
36
Spiritus intus alit
Barry Ferguson
37
Veni creator Spiritus
chant
John Scott and Malcolm Archer (trans.)
Pentecost
38
Come, Holy Ghost
chant
John Scott (harm.)
Pentecost
39
Veni Sancte Spiritus
chant
John Scott and Malcolm Archer (trans.)
Pentecost
40
Come,thou Holy Spirit
chant
John Scott (arr.)
Pentecost
41
As truly as God is our Father
William Mathias
42
Laus Trinitati
Hildegard von Bingen
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
43
Oculi omnium
Charles Wood
Corpus Christi / Pentecost XX
44
O Trinity, most blessed light
Malcolm Archer
45
The Cherubic Hymn
Sergei Rachmaninoff
46
With all our hearts
Thomas Tallis
Milsom (ed.)
47
Beati mundo corde
William Byrd
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
All Saints
48
For all the Saints
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ley (arr.)
All Saints
49
Glorious in Heaven
Percy Whitlock
50
O King all glorious
Healey Willan
51
O quam gloriosum est regnum
Jacobus Vaet
Christopher John Morris (ed.)
All Saints
52
O what their joy and their glory must be
William Harris
All Saints