Christmas Choral As
Christmas Choral As Joseph was a-walking TTBB unaccompanied Available from Banks Music Publications Children’s Christmas Song Two-part and piano or orchestra Vocal score 9780193437920 Available from Banks Music Publications The First Nowell TBarB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193404519 4 minutes ed. Roy Douglas The First Nowell Christmas Choral Soprano and baritone soloists, SATB choir, and full orchestra, or strings, piano and organ Full orch: 2 fl, ob, 2 cl, bn, 2 hn, 2 tpt, 2 tbn, timp, hp, str Scores and parts on hire 9780193389533 Folk Songs of the Four Seasons (Winter) Upper-voice chorus and full orchestra 2 fl (II + picc), 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 2 tpt, 3 tbn, tba, timp, 2 perc (glock, tri, SD), hp, cel, org, str Scores and parts on hire 9780193390874 This is the final part of Vaughan Williams’s appealing cantata, featuring four carol settings: ‘Children’s Christmas Song’, ‘Wassail Song’, ‘In Bethlehem City’, and ‘God bless the Master’. The first song showcases melancholy beauty; the second is a hearty Christmas drinking song; the third is a tender unaccompanied setting; and the fourth is a warm and uplifting hymn-like carol. Children’s Christmas Song • Wassail Song • In Bethlehem City • God bless the Master 13 minutes God rest you merry, gentlemen from English Traditional Carols SA and piano Vocal score 9780193857209 This is a rousing setting of the popular Christmas tune. The first and fourth verses are in unison, the second and fifth feature a gentle descant, and the third and sixth verses are in stirring harmony. 3 minutes In Bethlehem City SSA unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193437968 Available from Banks Music Publications Lullaby from Hodie Soprano soloist, SSA choir, and piano Vocal score 9780193854482 This tender lullaby sets William Ballet’s well-known text ‘Sweet was the song the Virgin sang’. 2.5 minutes Nine Carols for male voices TTBB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193859401 This masterfully crafted set of carols features a mixture of popular carols and lesser-known but equally enjoyable carols such as the Mummer’s Carol. The arrangements were made during the Second World War at the request of the British Council for performance by H.M. Forces in Iceland. God rest you merry, gentlemen • As Joseph was a-walking • Mummer’s Carol • The first Nowell • The Lord at first • Coventry Carol • I saw three ships • A Virgin most pure • Dives and Lazarus On Christmas Night Mezzo-soprano and baritone solists, SATB choir, and chamber orchestra fl (+picc), ob, cl, bn, hn, tpt, tbn, 2 perc (timp, SD, sus cym, tri, xyl), hp, cel (opt), pn, str; offstage: perc (xyl, bells), pn Vocal and instrumental scores on hire 9780193391833 This masque is loosely based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, conveying an adaptation of the perennially popular story through a combination of dancing and singing. Well-known Christmas carols are woven into the score. The score radiates warmth and humour, making it a charming seasonal work for amateur and professional groups alike. 30 minutes This is the truth from English Traditional Carols SA and piano Vocal score 9780193857193 3 minutes Two carols SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193395459 Available from Banks Music Publications Christmas Choral Scores and parts on hire - str, pno & org 9780193389540 Vocal score* 9780193389519 Libretto* 9780193389526 Vaughan Williams composed this musical ‘nativity play’ in the final year of his life, yet it is full of vitality and Christmas spirit, recalling his earlier folk song settings in its musical style and lightness of mood. The libretto, written by Simona Pakenham, is based on various medieval pageants, and the music is founded on traditional Christmas tunes. Vaughan Williams’s recastings of these familiar melodies are beautifully crafted, ranging from gently expressivity to stirring grandeur in tone. The final portion of the work was not finished upon the composer’s death, so his amanuensis Roy Douglas completed the work on the basis of the existing sketches. *Available from Banks Music Publishing 50-minute stage version; 30-minute concert version Hodie (This Day) Soprano, tenor, and baritone soloists, SATB choir, and orchestra 3 fl (II opt, III+picc), 2 ob (II opt), ca, 2 cl, 2 bn, cbn (opt), 4 hn (III&IV opt), 3 tpt (III opt), 3 tbn, tba, timp, 3 perc (SD, BD, TD, tri, cym, glock, tbell), cel, hp (opt), pn, org (opt), str Vocal score 9780193395510 Chorus part 9780193870017 Vocal and instrumental scores on hire 9780193395534 In this Christmas cantata, Vaughan Williams uses a wide range of musical styles to create a compelling, vivid, and highly original retelling of the Christmas story. Composed in 1953-4, Hodie (This Day) was Vaughan Williams’s final large-scale choral-orchestral work, and was premiered under his own baton in Worcester Cathedral as part of the 1954 Three Choirs Festival. It comprises sixteen movements, including ‘narrations’ of words from the Bible, chorales, and a variety of other forms for both soloists and choir. The words are taken from diverse sources, with sacred texts from the Vespers of Christmas Day and the Bible interspersed with secular texts by poets including John Milton, Thomas Hardy, and Ursula Vaughan Williams. ed. David Willcocks O little town of Bethlehem from Carols for Choirs 1 and 100 Carols for Choirs SATB and piano/brass quintet/strings/chamber orchestra Brass quintet: 2 tpt, hn, tbn, tba; Chamber orchestra: 2 fl, 2 ob, 2 cl, 2 bn, 2 hn, 2 tpt, str; OR strings only Score and parts on hire - brass quintet 9780193441798 Score and parts on hire - orchestra 9780193441781 6 minutes O My Dear Heart SSSAAA unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193364905 This is a beautiful arrangement of the old German tune ‘Lasst uns das Kindlein Wiegan’, setting words adapted from an old Scots poem by Ursula Wood. 3 minutes Two songs of winter from Folk Songs of the Four Seasons Unison voices (with descant) and piano Vocal score 9780193857612 These two settings from the Winter section of Folk Songs of the Four Seasons are full of Christmas spirit. ‘God bless the master’ is a hymn-like setting of a folk song that Vaughan Williams collected in Hampshire in 1909, while ‘Wassail Song’ is full of joie de vivre. The latter evokes the merriness of wassailing, in which people went from door to door singing carols and exchanging mulled cider for gifts. God bless the Master • Wassail Song 6.5 minutes We’ve been a while from Carols for Choirs 1 SATB and string orchestra Score and parts on hire 9780193442092 6 minutes 50 minutes 38 39
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