Carols for Choirs 4

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:
• Adeste fideles (Willcocks )
• Angels, from the realms of glory (Willcocks )
• Angelus ad Virginem (Willcocks )
• As with gladness men of old (2 versions) (Kocher/Willcocks )
• Away in a manger (Kirkpatrick/Willcocks )
• The cherry tree carol (Willcocks )
• Coventry carol (Rutter )
• Deck the hall (Rutter )
• Ding dong! merrily on high (Willcocks )
• Donkey carol (Rutter )
• The first Nowell (Willcocks )
• Gabriel to Mary came (Willcocks )
• Gabriel's message (Rutter )
• God rest you merry, gentlemen (2 versions) (Willcocks )
• Good King Wenceslas (Willcocks )
• Hail! blessed Virgin Mary (Wood )
• Hark! the herald angels sing (2 versions) (Mendelssohn/Willcocks )
• He smiles within his cradle (Willcocks )
• The holly and the ivy (Rutter )
• How far is it to Bethlehem? (Willcocks )
• I saw three ships (Willcocks )
• I sing of a maiden (Hadley )
• Il est né le divin enfant (Rutter )
• In dulci jubilo (4-part version) (Pearsall )
• In dulci jubilo (3-part version) (Rutter/Pearsall )
• The Infant King (Rutter )
• It came upon the midnight clear (Sullivan/Willcocks )
• King Jesus hath a garden (Rutter )
• The Linden tree carol (Rutter )
• Lute-book lullaby (Ballet/Rutter )
• A Merry Christmas (Rutter )
• Nativity Carol (Rutter )
• A New Year carol (Britten )
• O come, all ye faithful (Willcocks )
• O come, O come, Emmanuel (Willcocks )
• O little town of Bethlehem (Willcocks )
• Once in royal David's city (2 versions) (Gauntlett/Willcocks )
• Past three a clock (Rutter )
• Personent hodie (Rutter )
• Quelle est cette odeur agréable (Willcocks )
• Quem pastores laudavere (Rutter )
• Rocking (Willcocks )
• See amid the winter's snow (Goss/Willcocks )
• Shepherd's Pipe Carol (Rutter )
• Star Carol (Rutter/Pont )
• Stille Nacht (Gruber/Rutter )
• Sussex Carol (Willcocks )
• There is no rose (Britten )
• Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Rutter )
• Unto us is born a son (Willcocks )
• Up! good Christen folk, and listen (Woodward )
• A Virgin most pure (Rutter )
• While shepherds watched (Willcocks )