Carols for Choirs 1

Description

• 50 carols for every occasion

• Well-loved tunes in fresh arrangements

• Original compositions, including many specially written for the collection

• A wide range of composers

• Carols for audience or congregation with varied harmonizations and festive descants

• A balanced mix of accompanied and unaccompanied items

50 carols, mostly for SATB, some unaccompanied, and some having accompaniment, the Carols for Choir series provides a complete resource for choirs from Advent through Epiphany. Many of the carols are from traditional sources, rearranged, as well as carols written especially for this volume.

Contents:
• A boy was born (Britten )
• A Christmas Carol (Kodaly )
• A great and mighty wonder (Kodaly )
• A merry Christmas (Warrell )
• A virgin most pure (Wood )
• Adeste fideles (Willcocks )
• And there were shepherds (Bach/Willcocks )
• Angels, from the realms of glory (Jacques )
• As with gladness men of old (Kocher/Willcocks )
• Away in a manger (Kirkpatrick/Willcocks )
• Away in a manger (Jacques )
• Blessed be that maid Mary (Willcocks )
• The Blessed son of God (Vaughan Willams )
• The Boar's head carol (Poston )
• Carol, with lullaby (Tate )
• Coventry Carol (Anon )
• Coventry Carol (Shaw )
• Ding dong! merrily on high (Wood )
• The first nowell (Willcocks )
• Gallery carol (Jacques )
• Gloucestershire wassail (Vaughan Williams )
• God rest you merry, gentlemen (Willcocks )
• Good King Wenceslas (Jacques )
• Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn/Willcocks )
• The holly and the ivy (Jacques )
• I saw three ships (Willcocks )
• I saw three ships (Jacques )
• In dulci jubilo (Pearsall/Jacques )
• Infant holy, infant lowly (Willcocks )
• It came upon the midnight clear (Sullivan )
• King Jesus hath a garden (Wood )
• The linden tree carol (Jacques )
• Lute-book lullaby (Ballet/Shaw )
• No sad thought his soul affright (Vaughan Williams )
• O come, all ye faithful (Willcocks )
• O little one sweet (Bach )
• O little town of Bethlehem (Vaughan Williams/Armstrong )
• O men from the fields (Cooke )
• Once in royal David's city (Gauntlett/Mann )
• Past three a clock (Wood )
• Rejoice and be merry (Jacques )
• Rocking (Willcocks )
• See amid the winter's snow (Goss/Willcocks )
• The Shepherd's farewell (Berlioz )
• Sussex Carol (Willcocks )
• The three kings (Cornelius/Atkins )
• Torches (Joubert )
• Unto us is born a son (Willcocks )
• Up! good Christen folk, and listen (Woodward )
• We've been a while a-wandering (Vaughan Williams )
• What cheer? (Walton )
• When Christ was born (Jacques )
• While shepherds watched their flocks (Ravenscroft )
• While the shepherds were watching (Armstrong Gibbs )
• Zither Carol (Sargent )