OUP Women Composers Choral Catalogue

Choral Octavo Secular Choral Octavo Sacred Choral Octavo Christmas
Choral Works Secular Choral Works Sacred Choral Works Christmas
Kerry Andrew
- Kerry Andrew -
b. 1978
Kerry Andrew is a composer, performer and author
and the winner of four British Composer Awards.
With a PhD in composition from the University of
York, Kerry specialises in experimental vocal and
choral music, music-theatre and community music,
and as a performer, sings with the award-winning
Juice Vocal Ensemble and with her alt-folk band You
Are Wolf.
The Contest of the Ivy and the
Holly
SATB unaccompanied
Digital † 9780193544734
Originally published in The Ivy and the Holly, Andrew’s
polymetric setting of this traditional text is evocative
and energetic, with sustained vocalizations and creative
melodies that bounce around the voices.
4 minutes
The earth hath voice
SATB (with soprano semi-chorus), piano, &
optional percussion (bass drum, tam-tam/gong, &
3 tom-toms)
Vocal score 9780193379633
This is a colourful and dramatic celebration of nature
and its powerful and hypnotizing sounds. The listener is
taken on a captivating journey through the natural world,
via ‘tongues of thunders’, the ‘singing sea’, and ‘trumpetthroated
winds’. Clustered harmonies, cross-rhythms,
and vocal effects are combined with bell-like passages
and rippling figurations in the piano, and the optional
percussion part adds further rhythmic and dynamic
interest. The semi-chorus part can be sung by one or more
sopranos or a children’s choir.
5 minutes
- Carol Barnett -
Angelus ad virginem
SATB unaccompanied and opt. tambourine
Vocal score 9780193393073
This is a spirited arrangement of the popular fourteenthcentury
carol for mixed voices, with an optional part for
tambourine in the final verse. The familiar melody weaves
between the vocal parts, and the piece is characterized
by medieval harmonies and a rocking thirds motif. An
English singing translation is presented alongside the
original Latin, allowing choirs to perform the carol in either
language.
3 minutes
- Barbara Bell -
La Berceuse (French Lullaby)
arr. Rutter
SATB and piano or chamber orchestra
Vocal score 9780193413870
- Rebecca Clarke -
1886 - 1979
Rebecca Clarke was a self-styled ‘viola player and
composer’. She studied composition with Sir Charles
Stanford and her compositional output contains
over 100 works (including juvenilia). Although
most of her compositions are for the chamber
instruments she had professional experience with,
her mature songs are perhaps her finest body of
work and they are widely performed and recorded.
Barnett - Clarke
Adam and the Mother
SSATB (optional Soprano solo) unaccompanied
Vocal score 9780193365674
Combining a number of early lullaby texts in one setting,
Adam and the Mother is a haunting carol recalling the fall
of Adam. It combines irregular melodic lines with lilting
ostinato passages and will appeal to experienced choirs
looking for a unique addition to the Christmas repertory.
4 minutes
Charm
SSAA unaccompanied
Vocal score 9780193527560
Digital 9780193544741
Setting the modernized words of an Anglo-Saxon metrical
charm, this thrilling piece is unusual, dramatic, and
beguiling. Featuring a whispered list of potion ingredients
for the intro and outro, it also includes whistling, modal
touches, and some very funky riffs—to be performed with
freedom, energy, and imagination!
2.5 minutes
Hevene Quene
SATB unaccompanied
Vocal score 9780193355606
Digital 9780193550506
The composer has combined a single line of Latin, ‘O virgo
splendens’, with an earthy, late 13th-century Marian text
in Middle English to create a work which reflects both
the divine and the human qualities of the Virgin Mary.
Beginning and ending with plainchant-style passages,
Hevene Quene is by turns restrained, sparkling, pensive, and
pleading. Suitable for the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary
and for concert use, this is an approachable and rewarding
anthem.
5 minutes
O lux beata Trinitas
SATB unaccompanied
Vocal score 9780193359055
This luminescent setting of ‘O lux beata Trinitas’ (ascribed to
St Ambrose) uses a variety of textures and vocal techniques
to reflect the joy expressed in the text - from simple
homophony to improvisatory techniques and free metre.
Digital 9780193536357
Hire conductor’s score and parts 9780193512047
This charming carol, composed in 1975 by Barbara Bell,
was discovered by John Rutter, who enlisted the help of
John Suchet and Classic FM to track down the composer.
Haunting in character, but with a delightful French waltz
feel and a sweeping piano part, La Berceuse has been
recorded by Voces8 on the Decca label.
4 minutes
- Valerie Capers -
It Came upon the Midnight
Clear
Tenor Solo and SATB unaccompanied
Vocal score 9780193864573
Available from Banks Music Publishing
Ave Maria
SSA unaccompanied
Vocal Score 9780193860803
Digital 9780193560116
This exquisite setting for SSA unaccompanied voices of a
well-known Marian motet (in Latin) was the first of Rebecca
Clarke’s choral works ever to be published.
2 minutes
Chorus from Shelley's 'Hellas'
SSSAA unaccompanied
Vocal Score 9780193861909
Digital 9780193560109
Although quite short, this is one of Clarke's boldest and,
in some respects, most ambitious compositions. It sets
Shelley's magnificent ode to the Evening Star.
5.5 minutes
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