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Kerry Andrew Charm SSAA

Kerry Andrew 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 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 - 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. Choral Secular 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 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. 5 minutes Choral Leaflets Sacred 4

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 - 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 Choral Advent & Christmas Choral Advent & Christmas La Berceuse (French Lullaby) arr. Rutter SATB and piano or chamber orchestra Vocal score 9780193413870 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 - Barbara Bell - Choral Advent & Christmas Music of Life SSA or SABar & piano SSA vocal score 9780193561670 SSA Digital 9780193561687 SABar vocal score 9780193561700 SABar Digital 9780193561717 Music of Life is a vibrant setting of a poem by George Parsons Lathrop that describes how music underpins all earthly life. An active piano part provides an energetic undercurrent to compelling vocal lines, with the voices beginning in unison before opening out into two and then three parts. 3 minutes - B. E. Boykin - Choral Secular Andrew - Barnett 5