Partitions de Compositrices pour Chœur mixte : Un répertoire varié

This famous Christmas carol is set to Redner's tune, which is the version most known in The United States. Rutter has also included a descant for the final verse. Offprinted from the collection Joy to...

One of Chilcott's earliest compositions, The Modern Man I Sing is a setting of poems by Walt Whitman. A recording of the work by the BBC Singers is featured on the Signum Classics CD SIGCD100.

This gentle, reflective piece, originally from Three Children's Songs, has been arranged for a mixed choir and is perfect for a spring concert. Offprinted from Vaughan Williams for Choirs 2.

With specially written poems by Kãrlis Verdinš based on the Adonis chapters from Frazer's The Golden Bough, each song in this little cycle explores a single Affekt.

This anthem sets a descriptive passage by Milton that sees the poet ask for guidance as he enters the 'studious Cloysters pale'. Jackson sets the words sensitively, building to a glorious climax on 'A...

This popular Christmas carol includes German as well as optional English lyrics. Orchestral scores and parts are also available. Offprinted from the collection Twelve Christmas Carols Set 1.

Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises.

This is the first published edition of an anthem by Henry Walford Davies that dates from the mid 1890s. Scored for lower voices, AATTBB, it is a setting of an anonymous text from 1836 that is suitable...

This slightly sombre setting of five poems is homophonic, giving the impression of a single vocal line. The very close harmony throughout conveys a sense of restraint and a longing to escape from the...

This piece originates from a cycle of songs for mixed voices entitled A Garland for the Queen; a collection of pieces by ten British composers to mark the occasion of the Coronation of H.M. Queen Eliz...

This still and reflective motet was written and first performed for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and is suitable for many festive occasions such as weddings and All Saints' Day. Offprinted fr...

Inspired by a 16th-century Scots text, Jackson has composed a memorable carol full of character and beauty. The choir is serenaded throughout by the organ, which imitates the haunting qualities of the...

This joyful carol sets a text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The piece opens with an imitation of bells spread across the voices, and this festive, celebratory quality is maintained throughout. Simple...

This appealing motet for SATB choir and organ accompaniment was written in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

A rich texture is used in Gombert's setting of Quam pulchra es, with all voices singing almost all of the time. This texture is created through refined imitative contrapuntal writing, rather than homo...

Originally published in Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs, this seventeenth-century anthem for The Ascension of the Lord is full of melismatic polyphonic lines and features a fluid tonal centre.

This dazzling work presents an exploration of light in its many forms and uses, from starlight and sunlight to electricity, photosynthesis, or guiding ships to safety. Both piano and voices are used p...

The optional opening section, for which there is a graphic score, is spoken to texts by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other esteemed poets and authors. The four sung movements which follow are conven...

Andrew Carter's setting matches in its powerful simplicity the text attributed to the French Quaker missionary, Stephen Grellet: 'I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore...

Setting the George Herbert poem 'Whitsunday', this lilting, gentle anthem is particularly useful for Whit Sunday services. Syncopations and duplets provide rhythmic interest, with memorable melodies,...

This tender movement from the Advent cantata O Come, Emmanuel is in memory of Bullard's teacher, Herbert Howells, with text translated from a traditional German carol Es ist ein Ros entsprugen. Suitab...

This suite from 1925 is one of Vaughan Williams' most enigmatic pieces. The chorus never articulates a single word, and instead serves as a section of the orchestra, creating an elegant vocal texture...

Higgins' setting of this popular folk song is simple and wistful, particularly well-suited for children's and youth choirs. With delicate quaver flourishes, the piano accompaniment flows gently alongs...