Carols for Choirs 2

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 babe is born I wys (Bainton )
• A child is born in Bethlehem (Scheidt/Willcocks )
• Adam lay ybounden (Ord )
• All my heart this night rejoices (Ebeling )
• All this time (Walton )
• The angels and the shepherds (Trevor )
• The cherry tree carol (Willcocks )
• Come leave your sheep (Rutter )
• Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (Willcocks )
• Deck the hall (Willcocks )
• Ding dong! merrily on high (Willcocks )
• Down in yon forest (Rutter )
• Gabriel's message (Willcocks )
• Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary (Wood )
• Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn )
• He is born the divine Christ child (Rutter )
• Here we come a-wassailing (Rutter )
• The holly and the ivy (Walford Davies )
• How far is it to Bethlehem? (Willcocks )
• I saw a maiden (Pettman )
• I sing of a maiden (Hadley )
• Il est né le divin enfant (Rutter )
• The Infant King (Willcocks )
• It came upon the midnight clear (Sullivan/Willcocks )
• The Lord at first did Adam make (Willcocks )
• Masters in this hall (Willcocks )
• Matin responsory (Palestrina )
• Myn lyking (Terry )
• Nativity carol (Rutter )
• A New Year carol (Britten )
• Noël nouvelet (Rutter )
• Nowell, sing nowell (Rutter )
• O come, all ye faithful (Wade )
• O come, O come, Emmanuel (Willcocks )
• Of the father's heart begotten (Willcocks )
• Once in royal David's city (Gauntlett/Mann/Willcocks )
• Out of your sleep (Rodney Bennett )
• Past three a clock (Rutter )
• Patapan (Jacques )
• Personent hodie (Holst )
• Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (Willcocks )
• Quem pastores laudavere (Rutter )
• Quittez, pasteurs (Rutter )
• Resonemus laudibus (Willcocks )
• Sans day carol (Rutter )
• The shepherds' cradle song (Leuner/Macpherson )
• Shepherds left their flocks a-straying (Rutter )
• Shepherd's pipe carol (Rutter )
• Silent night (Gruber/Willcocks )
• Sir Christèmas (Mathias )
• There is no rose (Stevens )
• Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Willcocks )
• The truth from above (Vaughan Williams )
• The twelve days of Christmas (Rutter )
• While shepherds watched their flocks (Willcocks )
• Zion hears the watchmen's voices (Bach/Rutter )