Carols for Choirs 6
for SATB, accompanied, and unaccompanied To celebrate the centenary of the Oxford University Press Music Department, this volume of 50 new carols complements the five previous volumes, bringing new names and styles to the series while providing a complete resource for choirs from Advent to Epiphany. Featuring newly commissioned carols and arrangements of classic melodies, the collection showcases some of today's most exciting names in choral composition.
for SATB, accompanied, and unaccompanied
To celebrate the centenary of the Oxford University Press Music Department, this volume of 50 new carols complements the five previous volumes, bringing new names and styles to the series while providing a complete resource for choirs from Advent to Epiphany.
Featuring newly commissioned carols and arrangements of classic melodies, the collection showcases some of today's most exciting names in choral composition.
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<strong>for</strong> St Mary’s Friston Christmas Choir, Suffolk, Director Emma Steadman<br />
12. Candle Carol<br />
65<br />
Words and music by<br />
ALAN BULLARD (b. 1947)<br />
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* The tenor and bass parts may be omitted throughout. In this event, the small notes in bars 21–7, 75–81, and 91–7 should be played.<br />
Otherwise, all small notes are optional, both in the keyboard part and in the vocal divisi.<br />
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