Mixed Voice Christmas Choral Recordings

Robert Shaw / Robert Russel Bennett : The Many Moods of Christmas - Suite Four

Review: This book includes all arrangements from the fourth suite, with piano accompaniment, featured on CD with the same title, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw.

Songlist: Breakforth, O Beautious Heavenly Light, O Little Of Bethlehem, I Saw Three Ships, Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly, The First Nowell

Robert Shaw / Robert Russel Bennett : The Many Moods of Christmas - Suite One

Review: This book includes all arrangements from the first suite, with piano accompaniment, featured on CD with the same title, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw.

Songlist: Good Christian Men Rejoice, Silent Night, Patapan, O Come, All Ye Faithful

Robert Shaw / Robert Russel Bennett : The Many Moods of Christmas - Suite Three

Review: This book includes all arrangements from the third suite, with piano accompaniment, featured on CD with the same title, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw.

Songlist: What Child Is This?, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, Angels We Have Heard On High

Robert Shaw / Robert Russel Bennett : The Many Moods of Christmas - Suite Two

Review: This book includes all arrangements from the second suite, with piano accompaniment, featured on CD with the same title, performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Robert Shaw.

Songlist: O Sanctissima, Joy To The World, Away In A Manger, Fum Fum Fum, March Of The Kings

Robert Sterling : The Ultimate Youth Choir Christmas Book

Review: This seasonal addition to Word Music s family of Ultimate Youth Choir products equips your youth choir with a versatile resource for Christmas. The Ultimate Youth Choir Christmas Book captures the best seasonal titles from contemporary Christian artists and places them into easily learned SAB arrangements by Robert Sterling. Dramatic sketches written by Bob Hoose complement the songs and create an adaptable way to deliver the Christmas message. With keyboard accompaniment. This is a book you won't want to miss!

Songlist: And It Came To Pass, Born Is the King Medley, Angels we Have Heard on High, Joy To the World, Gloria, Breath of Heaven, Celebrating Jesus, Child of Bethlehem, Christmas Lullaby, The Christmas Season, Cough-N-Sneezin' Blues, A Christmas to Remember, Christmastime, Heirlooms, It's A Christmas Thing, Joy to the World!, Mary, Did You Know?, The Night That Christ was Born, Not That Far From Bethlehem, The Reason for Christmas, This Baby, Welcome to Our World, When Love Came Down, You Are Emmanuel

Voicing: Teen

Royal School of Church Music : The Carol Book Supplement

Review: The Carol Book Supplement includes 16 addtional Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany carols from Britain and Europe with voicings for SATB choir, SAB choir, or Unison with descant. These flexilbe arrangements will add sparkle to your Carol and Christmas Services. This book of new arrangements is in the same photocopiable format as The Carol Book.

Russell Robinson : Sing a Merry Christmas

Review: A treasury of eight traditional Christmas carols in easy-to-learn arrangements presented in a budget-stretching reproducible format. This collection features a rich mix of styles, tempi, and usages in two-to-three-minute titles, easily combined for longer durations. Careful attention has been made to Part III to ensure comfortable ranges and simple voice-leading.

Songlist: Deck the Hall, Angels We Have Heard on High, O Tannenbaum, Lo, How a Rose, Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, Jingle Bells, Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Ruth Elaine Schram : Noel Masterworks

Review: Ruth Elaine Schram has artfully blended classical masterworks with beloved carols resulting in Noel Masterworks. Use the five arrangements contained in this collection throughout the Advent season plus Christmas. Or, present the selections together with the optional narration contained in the book for a rich 25-minute cantata. Available separately: SATB. Preview CD, ChoirTrax CD, I-Pak and Preview Pak also available.

Songlist: A Prelude To Advent, Silent Noel, March Of The Three Kings, The Heavens Declare Joy!, Angels Suite

Sally K. Albrecht : This December Season!

Review: We've combined six of our best-selling Alfred Choral Designs seasonal titles into this convenient, price-saving publications. Use the six chorals individually, or perform them together as a ready-to-go 20-minute December program. Each of these four collections has been carefully selected to provide your singers and audience with a dynamic and rewarding concert experience.

Songlist: Jingle Bell Sleigh Ride, In December, Born This Christmas Day, Candle in the Night, On the Roof, Candle in Your Heart

Satis N. Coleman / Elin K. Jorgensen : Christmas Carols from Many Countries

Review: Arranged for unchanged voices, this collection of old favorites, familiar carols with new settings, carols in original foreign languages and newly translated carols is a great resource for those who want to add a little more repertoire to their Christmas caroling.

Songlist: Adeste Fideles, Although you are so Tiny, Angels we have Heard on High, An Weihnachten, As I sat on a Sunny Bank, As Joseph Was a Walking, As Lately we Watched, Away in a Manger, Bergers, pour qui cette fete, Boar's Head Carol, The, Bring Your Torches, Carol, children, carol, Carol fo the Flowers, Chantons, baries, Noue Noue, Christ-Boy is Born, Christmas Eve is Here, Christmas is Here Again, Christmas Nightingale, The, Christ, Hasten, Ye Shepards, Dame get up and bake your pies, Dear baby Jesus not rest in sleep, Deck the Halls, Die Weihnachts Nachtigall, Der Heiland, Der Hirten, Ein, Entre, First Noel, The, Friendly Beasts, The, From Over the Hills, and more

Simon Halsey : Five Welsh Carols

Review: These lyrical and atmospheric carols for the Christmas season offer choirs the chance of exploring treasures from one of the most musical of nations. The Welsh texts are accompanied by new English singing translations.

Songlist: The Shepherds Were Keeping Their Watch (Roed Yn Y Wlad Honno), Come from Ev'ry Land (Tua Bethl'em Dref), Come All Christians, Singing (O Deued Pob Cristion), Dark the Night (Seren Bethlehem), Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly (Oer Yw'r Gwr Sy'n Methu Caru)

Stephen McNeff : A Dickens Christmas: A Choral Suite

Review: The music on which this work is based was written for productions of "A Christmas Carol" and "Oliver Twist" at the Liverpool Playhouse. "This Suite of Christmas songs can be performed by any four-part ensemble or choir (there were eight voices in the Liverpool Playhouse productions). The accompaniment is optional and need not necessarily be a piano. The Suite could be performed as part of a carol service or in a Christmas concert. It does not have to be done in its entirety or even in order, and it could be interwoven with suitable Christmas readings such as excerpts from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (though there are many others). Given their origin, the songs might lend themselves to some theatricalization, but this shouldn't go too far." (Stephen McNeff)

Songlist: All Hail to the Days, King of the Seasons, Christmas Far Away, Chorale (Little Lamb), Catch (The Carnal and the Crane), Finale (Mr Fezziwig's Party)

Steve Martland : Three Carols for Unaccompanied Chorus

Review: English composer Steve Martland rejects academic dogma in favour of a plurality of musical influences, both ancient and modern, 'serious' and vernacular. His music has been adapted frequently for film and TV use, and scores for TV include the multi-media Albion, commissioned by the BBC and Granada TV's Children's drama Wilderness Edge. These are original compositions that will be rewarding and challenging for your choir and add a new creative element to any Christmas concert.

Songlist: From Lands That See The Sun Arise, Make We Joy, There Is No Rose

Teena Chinn - Compiled / Edited : Carolers Handbook

Review: The Carolers Handbook provides a fresh, new approach to the standard carols we have come to associate with the holiday season. Each a cappella choral setting has been designed to enhance the inherent characteristics of the original carol, no two carols have been approached the same way. This adds a vitality and versatility to this handbook seldom found in collections of this type, while, in the meantime, providing the choral director with a dynamic and versatile tool for use in his or her holiday planning. Includes program notes on staging.

Songlist: Introduction to Carol Singing, Angels We Have Heard on High, Away in a Manger, Chanukah, O Chanukah, The First Noel, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, A Holly Jolly Christmas, Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!, Merry Christmas, Darling, O Christmas Tree, O Come, All Ye Faithful, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, Silent Night, Silver Bells

Tom Shorter (Editor) : Sleep, Holy Babe - Lullabies for Christmas

Review: "Sleep, Holy Babe" is a unique collection based on the theme of The Nativity. At its heart lie nine Christmas lullabies, as well as two carols and a motet depicting the story of Christ's birth. These are framed by a pair of Advent antiphons and Magnificat settings and an Epiphany carol. "Sleep, Holy Babe" contains: Five new pieces commissioned specially for this anthology by Daniel Burges, Hilary Campbell, Andrew Earis, Catherine Kontz, and Anthony Mudge - Eight recently-composed works by David Bevan, Alexander Campkin, John Duggan, Emma Gibbins, Trevor Ling, Francis Pott, and Jonathan Rathbone - A variety of texts covering a range of themes including the Lullaby, the Baby Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the Nativity scene, the Star in the east, the Shepherds, the Magi, and King Herod - Two 'O' antiphons (in four and six parts) by Pierre de Manchincourt (1510-1564), and two contemporary faux-bourdon Magnificat settings (in four and eight parts) - New settings of well-known texts such as: "The Coventry Carol", "Lullay my Liking", and "Sing Lullaby" - New and recent texts by: Alexia Anastasiadis, Donald Atkinson, John Duggan, and Claire Lawrence - Two pieces for three-part upper voices (SSA), one unaccompanied, one with harp (or piano) accompaniment; and a three-part piece for lower voices (TTB) - 14 unaccompanied pieces, and 3 accompanied pieces.

Songlist: O Emanuel, Magnificat, O Virgo Virginum, Magnificat (a8), The Virgin Mary Bore a Child, A Lullaby, Sleep My Dreaming One, O Magnum Mysterium, Quid Petis, O Fili?, Lullay, My Liking, Christmas Gifts, Sing Lullaby, O Babe, Born Bare, In Your Father's Care, Coventry Carol, Why Impious Herod

Torstein Kvamme : Christmas Carolers Book in Song and Story

Review: This was the first Christmas song that fell upon the ears of man. It has been the inspiration of myriads of hymns and carols. Many of these have become very dear to us. Christmas hymns and carols are rich in tradition. The Mission of this book is to make these traditions familar to singer and listener through authentic as well as intereting stories of the sources and composers.

Songlist: Adestes Fideles, Adoramus Te, Angels From the Realms Of Glory, Angels We Have Heard On High, Antioch, As Each Happy Christmas, As With Gladness Men Of Old, Away In A Manger, Babe Is Born In Bethelem, A, Beautiful Saviour, Boar's Head Carol, The, Cantique De Noel, Carol, Of The Birds, Carol Of The Nuns Of St. Mary's Chester, Cherry Tree Carol, Christmas Bells, Coventry Carol, Cradle Hymn, Crusader's Hymns, Deck The Deck Hall, Es Ist Ein Ros' entsprungen, Fairest Of Roses, First noel, From Heaven Above, Glad Christmas Bells, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good Christian Men Rejoice, Good King Wencesslas, Good Nights, Grant Us O Lord, and more

Various : A Baltic Christmas - 10 Pieces for A Cappella Choir

Review: With captivating settings of Latvian choral music featuring folk songs and poetry by composers Rihards Dubra, Eriks Esenvalds, and Vytautas Miskinis, as well as thrilling arrangements of ancient pagan folksongs by Ilona Rupaine and Juris Vaivods, this exciting anthology of Christmas music from Latvia and Lithuania is perfect for choirs looking to broaden their musical horizons during the festive period.

Songlist: O Emmanuel, At Christmas, Hodie Christus Natus Est, O Radix Jesse, Verbum Caro, A Child's Prayer, The Candles Glow, Nata Lux, Duido, Kalado

Various : Celebrate Christmas! (Collection)

Review: Five of Mac Huff's best Christmas chorals over four decades of arrangements have been brought together in this can't-miss holiday package that delivers on all counts! Includes: Angels We Have Heard on High, A Midnight Clear, O Come O Come Emmanuel, Ring Those Christmas Bells and Silent Night.

Songlist: Angels We Have Heard on High, A Midnight Clear,, O Come O Come Emmanuel,, Ring Those Christmas Bells, Silent Night.

Various : Holiday Moods - Vol 1

Review: This collection includes the songs: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Silent Night - Angels We Have Heard on High - What Child is This - Joy to the World. Includes piano reduction. Orchestral parts available on rental.

Songlist: Silent Night, Angels We Have Heard On High, Joy To The World, What Child Is This?, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Various : Holiday Moods - Vol 2

Review: This collection includes the songs: Deck the Halls - O Christmas Tree - Here We Come A-Wassailing - Carol of the Bells - Jingle Bells. Includes piano reduction. Orchestral parts available on rental.

Songlist: O Christmas Tree, Jingle Bells, Carol Of The Bells, Deck The Hall, Here We Come A-Wassailing

Various : Noel! 3

Review: Noël! 3 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed-voice choirs, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents range from the Baroque to the present: familiar settings of traditional and lesser-known carols through the ages to Howells, Berkeley and Warlock, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Paul Mealor, John Tavener, Francis Pott and Richard Allain. Mixed-voice choirs of all levels will enjoy these new arrangements of favorite carols as well as stimulating original works for the Christmas season.

Songlist: WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS WE CAROL JOHN GARDNER (ARR.) ARR., O HOLY NIGHT O JOHN S. DWIGHT (TRANS.) TRANS. PLACIDE CAPPEAU (FRENCH) FRENCH ADOLPHE ADAM WEST (ARR.) ARR., O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM O DAN LOCKLAIR, HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST HODIE DAN LOCKLAIR, WEXFORD CAROL WEXFORD TRADITIONAL TIMOTHY NOON (ARR.) ARR., I SAW THREE SHIPS I RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT, I WONDER AS I WANDER JOHN JACOB NILES MATTHEW O'DONOVAN (ARR.) ARR., THE HOLLY AND THE IVY STUART THOMPSON, COVENTRY CAROL COVENTRY RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT, LO, HOW A ROSE E'ER BLOOMING LO GERMAN CAROL THEODORE BAKER (TRANSLATOR) TRANSLATOR MICHAEL PRAETORIUS JAN SANDSTROM (ARR.) ARR., INFANT HOLY, INFANT LOWLY HOLY KEITH ROBERTS, BENEDICAMUS DOMINO BENEDICAMUS PETER WARLOCK, TOMORROW SHALL BE MY DANCING DAY TOMORROW TRADITIONAL STUART NICHOLSON (ARR.) ARR., DING DONG! MERRILY ON HIGH DING TRADITIONAL MALCOLM WILLIAMSON (ARR.) ARR., BALULALOW BALULALOW RICHARD ALLAIN, LULLAY, MY LIKING LULLAY DAVID HILL, AS I LAY UPON A NIGHT AS JAMIE W. HALL, BRIGHT STAR CAROL BRIGHT NICO MUHLY, LULLABY OF THE NATIVITY LULLABY RICHARD BLACKFORD, XICOCHI XICOCHI GASPAR FERNANDES, 'TWAS IN THE WINTER COLD TWAS JOSEPH BARNBY, JOSEPH, LIEBER JOSEPH MEIN HIERONYMUS PRAETORIUS, IN THE BLEAK MID-WINTER MID WINTER IN RICHARD ALLAIN, A SPOTLESS ROSE A PAUL MEALOR, MARY, THAT MOTHER MILD MARY ADRIAN LUCAS, TUA BETHLEM DREF TUA DAVID DAVIES GEOFFREY WEBBER (ARR.) ARR., LUTE-BOOK LUTE BOOK LULLABY LUTE-BOOK LUTE BOOK FRANCIS POTT, WINTER'S WAIT WINTER'S JAMES WHITBOURN, ANNUNCIATION ANNUNCIATION JOHN TAVENER, THE BURNING BABE THE JONATHAN WIKELEY, and more

Various : Treasury of Carols

Review: This remarkable resource is an essential compilation of beloved carols by a trio of our best-selling arrangers. Fully orchestrated and filled with variety, you will discover music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Soaring festival arrangements mingle with equally impressive restrained offerings to provide a well-balanced volume of seasonal songs for concert or sanctuary usage. Beautifully orchestrated, this assemblage is sure to be a permanent part of your holiday music planning. Includes: Joy to the World; Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella; How Far Is It to Bethlehem?; Masters In This Hall; O Holy Night; Gesu Bambino; Ding Dong! Merrily on High!; As With Gladness Men of Old; Silent Night, Holy Night.

Songlist: As With Gladness Men Of Old, Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella, Ding Dong! Merrily On High!, Gesu Bambino, How Far Is It To Bethlehem?, Joy To The World, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Masters In This Hall, O Holy Night, Silent Night

Various Arrangers : Augsburg Choirbook for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

Review: The Augsburg Choirbook for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany is an exciting collection of choral music for the season. Includes SATB, two-part and three-part settings of much-loved liturature from the Augsburg choral library as well as newly composed settings. This comprehensive collection will immediately appeal to directors, singers, and listeners.

Songlist: A Holy Child Is Born Today, And a Little Child Shall Lead Them, As the Dark Awaits the Dawn, At Bethlehem, Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies, Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, Coventry Carol, Dixit Maria ad Angelum, Dost Thou in a Manger Lie?, Eternal Light, Herr Christ, Der Einig Gotts Sohn, I Am So Glad Each Christmas Eve, Infant Holy, Infant Lowly, Jeg er sa Glad, Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head, Jesus on the Mountain Peak, Joyous Christmas Song, Le Sommeil De L'enfant Jesus, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Lullaby on Christmas Eve, Lullay, Dear Jesus, Lute Book Lullaby, Maria Walks Amid the Thorn, Nunc Dimittis, O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright, O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide, Of The Father's Love Begotten, Out of the Orient Crystal Skies, Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow, Silent Night, Holy Night!, and more

Various Arrangers : Christmas in Song

Review: A treasury of traditioal songs, favorite hymns and choice carols, from all ages and from many lands selected for your singing christmas. Compiled and arranged for mixed voices (SATB) or unisonal singing by Theo Preuss

Songlist: Adeste Fideles, Adoramus Te, Angels From The Realms Of Glory, Angels We Have Heard On High, As Each Happy Christmas, As Joseph Was A-Walking, As Lately We Watched, As With Gladness Men Of Old, Away In A Manger, A Babe Is Born In Bethlehem, The Babe Of Bethlehem, Beautiful Savior, Bring A Torch Jeannette Isabella, Cantique De Noel, Carol Of The Birds, The Cherry Tree Carol, Child Jesus Came To Earth This Day, A Child This Day Is Born, The Christmas Hymm, Christ Was Born On Christmas Day, Come All Ye Children, Come All Ye Shepards, Companions, All Sing Loudly, Coventry Carol, Deck The Halls, Everywhere, Everywhere, Christmas, The First Noel, From Earthly Tasks Lift Up Thine Eyes, From Every Spire On Christmas Eve, From Heaven Above, and more

Various Arrangers : Christmas Voices

Review: Fourteen traditional and modern Christmas texts, all set by contemporary composers for various choral combinations and levels of accomplishment. Includes works for Unison, SSA and SATB choirs. But for one or two more adventurous pieces, these carols are sufficiently melodic and straighforward to be tackled by choirs of any size or with limited rehearsal time, while still being fresh and challenging works of today.

Songlist: A Lullaby Of The Nativity, Balulalow, Dormi Jesu, Coventry Carol, When All The Angels, The Two Nowells, A Lullaby Of The Nativity, A Babe Is Born, Journey From Nazareth, Coventry Carol, Balulalow, Balulalow, The Holly And The Ivy, Heaven Knows Why, When All The Angels, Dormi Jesu

Various Arrangers : Five Carols for Children

Review: The Alfred Top Pop collections feature outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.

Songlist: Deck the Hall for All, Jingle Bell Dash, O Come, Little Children, Pat-A-Pan, St. Nick at Night

Various Arrangers : Sing Nowell - 51 Carols

Review: This Holiday songbook includes a mid-twentieth century collection of the best in contemporary British carol writing and arrangement. It includes previously published works and as well as new pieces and arrangements written specifically for this book.

Songlist: A Babe is Born, A Child This Day is Born, A Shepherd's Carol, A Star was His Night Light, A Virgin Most Pure, Adam Lay Ybounden, An Australian Carol, And Hark! The Herod Angels, Angels From the Realms of Glory, Angelus ad Virginem, Away in a Manger, Balulalow, Blessed be that Maid Mary, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, Dormi, Jesu, Eastern Monarchs, Ecce Puer, Entrez-y tous en Surete, From Heaven Winging, Gabriel, from Heaven's King, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, Here We Bring New Water, Infant Holy, Jesu, Swete Sone Dere!, Joseph Was an Old Man, Let us Securely Enter, Lord Jesus Once was a Child, Lully, Lully, Thou Little Tiny Child, Lully, Lully, Thou Little Tiny Child, and more

Various Arrangers : Six Silly Songs of the Season

Review: Wonderful and Wacky Holiday Chorals for 2-part Voices. The Alfred Top Pop collections feature outstanding arrangements of songs from the popular music genre. These publications provide exciting contemporary, and educationally-sound arrangements for singers of all ages, from elementary through high school, to college and adult choirs.

Songlist: Born To Shop, Merry Christmas to Me!, The Reindeer Rap, S.A.N.T.A., Snow Day!, The Twelve Groovy Days of Christmas

Various Arrangers : The Chester Book of Carols

Review: Some of the most exciting and original contemporary composers of a cappella sacred music are gathered together in this superb collection. Specially geared towards the choirmaster who is looking for something special to perform at Christmas.

Songlist: In Wintertime, What Child Is This?, There Is No Rose, The Child Of Light, Jesu Sweete, Jesus Christ The Apple Tree, I Sing Of A Maiden, Make We Merry, Love Bade Me Welcome, The Holly And The Ivy, A Nativity, And God, And Yet A Man, One Star, At Last, A Christmas Poem, I Sing Of A Maiden, The Lamb, The Bellman

Various Arrangers : The Christmas Caroling Songbook

Review: Everyone loves to sing Christmas carols! So make it simple with this easy-to-use collection containing 50 well-known carols arranged for SAB voices. Ideal for holiday sing-alongs, community or family get-togethers, or house-to-house singing.

Songlist: Angels We Have Heard on High, Deck the Hall, The First Noel, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Joy to the World, O Come, All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Up on the Housetop, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, What Child Is This?

Various Arrangers : The Christmas Caroling Songbook

Review: Everyone loves to sing Christmas carols! So make it simple with this easy-to-use collection containing 50 well-known carols arranged for any combination of voices. Ideal for holiday sing-alongs, community or family get-togethers, or house-to-house singing. SATB

Songlist: Angels From The Realms Of Glory, Angels We Have Heard on High, Away in a Manger, Away In A Manger, Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella, Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, Coventry Carol, Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child, Deck the Hall, Ding Dong! Merrily on High!, and many more!

Various Arrangers : The Christmas Caroling Songbook

Review: Melody, words and chords for 72 favorite Carols and Songs.

Songlist: All Throuh The Night, Blue Christmas, Carol Of The ells, Deck The Hall, Feliz Navidad, Happy Holiday, The Holly And The Ivey, Jingle Bell Rock, Little Saint Nick, Silver Bells, Toyland, and many more..., Come Sunday

Various Arrangers : The Ivy and the Holly

Review: The Ivy and the Holly is a superb collection of carols and motets for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany by contemporary composers. Scored for mixed voices - a cappella and with organ - the pieces present a wide range of styles and sonorities. A great collection for church and concert choirs alike. The New Horizons series showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut of small-scale choral genres, both secular and sacred, and includes pieces for upper-voice and mixed choirs. With titles by some of the most accomplished choral composers active in Great Britain and abroad, the series introduces new repertoire and fresh talent to a broad spectrum of choirs. New Horizons features composers with growing reputations for quality composition reflecting a strong individual voice. The series is continually expanding and should be the first place to look for attractive and performable contemporary choral music.

Songlist: The Contest of the Ivy and the Holly, Antiphon to Mary, And all the stars looked down, Cradle Song, The Shepherds Carol, Telling, The Magi, Now we may singen, Gabriel fram Hevene-King, St. Margaret's Carol, Mary's Carol, Dormi, Jesu, Rejoice, rejoice, Veni, redemptor gentium

Walter Ehret : The International Book of Christmas Carols

Review: 164 easy arrangements with chords of carols from around the world, complete with lyrics in the original language as well as English. This special collection also includes historical background information on the observance of Christmas through the years and notes about specific carols to give added understanding. Songs are included from England, Italy, Latin America, Spain, Scandinavia, Poland, Czech Republic, and more.

Songlist: Christmas and Its Songs, ENGLISH CAROLS, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Good Christian Men, Rejoice, The Seven Joys of Mary, This Endris Night, Good King Wenceslas, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, Coventry Carol, When Christ Was Born of Mary Free, The Holly and the Ivy, The Friendly Beasts, The First Nowell, Joy to the World, What Child is This? (Greensleeves), While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks, Gloucestershire wassail, The Boar's Head Carol, Wassail Song, The Twelve Days of Christmas, On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol), Blessed Be that Maid Marie, A Virgin Unspotted, Once in Royal David's City, Sleep, Holy Babe, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, As with Gladness Men of Old, Angels From the Realms of Glory, Masters in this Hall, I Saw Three Ships, and more

Walter Michalak : Sing We Now of Christmas

Review: Imagine how much more productive and efficient your rehearsals will be when you or all of your choir members have had time to rehearse on their own with a CD targeted to their specific vocal part. When you all get together there will be more time to devote to nuances and performance skills, instead of the basic learning of notes Rehearsal CD has the featured vocal of your choice: Soprano, Alto, Tenor or Bass on the right side (or right speaker/headphone), and the rest of the chorus voices in the left speaker/headphone. That's right, you aren't alone, the rest of the chorus is there with you but your vocal part is highlighted and isolated for your convenience! The large-type, easy-to-read music book that accompanies each rehearsal CD, gives added reinforcement. For each carol you will hear the name of the carol, a set of tones, with the loudest tone being your starting tone, and a metronome click to start off the tempo and count you down to the beginning. The count will always be a full 2 measures before the start of the carol, and if the carol starts in mid-measure there will be 2 full measures plus the partial measure before the carol begins. It's as easy as that! If you listen on headphones and don't have a balance control, you can simply move the left or right headphone to isolate the left/right playback sound.

Songlist: Angels We Have Heard On High, Away In A Manger, Coventry Carol, Deck the Halls, The First Nowell, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Good King Wenceslas, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, Joy to the World!, O Come, All Ye Faithful, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night, What Child Is This?, We Wish You A Merry Christmas

William Llewellyn (Editor) : The Novello Book of Carols

Review: This outstanding collection of 90 carols offers a balanced mixture of accompanied and unaccompanied items which will appeal immediately to conductors, singers and audiences alike. Mostly for mixed voices, it includes 16 carols and a further 39 arrangements published here for the first time. From Gabrielli to Judith Weir, medieval melodies to spirituals, the range of styles covers a wide spectrum of tastes. This major issue of carols is edited by William Llewellyn, a well established figure in the world of choral music.

Songlist: A Babe Is Born, A Christmas Antiphon, A Fanfare For Christmas, A Gallery Carol, A Somerset Carol, Adam Lay Ybounden, Adests Fideles, All And Some, As Joseph Was A-walking, Away In A Manger, Balulalow, Canon For Three Choirs, Carol Of The Christ-child, Christmas Is Coming, Coventry Carol, Dawn Carol, De Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy, Ding Dong! Merrily On High, Ding-dong, Ding, Donkey Plod And Mary Ride, El Cant Des Ocells, El Noi De La Mare, Fum, Fum, Fum, Gabriel's Message, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, How Soft, Upon The Ev'ning Air, Huron Carol, Hush You, My Baby, I Saw Three Ships, and more

William Ryden : A Celebration of Carols for SAB - Vol 1

Review: William Ryden is a noted composer and arranger who has been awarded an ASCAP Special Award for his works. Here is a classic collection of sixteen traditional carols arranged for unaccompanied SAB voices of moderate difficulty and suitable for choirs of all age and abilities.

Songlist: Deck The Halls, Coventry Carol, Angels We Have Heard On High, The Sleep Of The Child Jesus, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Tell Us Wise Men, Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices?, O Come All Ye Faithful, The Three Kings, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, What Child Is This?, Rise Up Shepherd And Follow, See His Face And Sing His Praise, We Three Kings Of Orient Are, Rocking, A Merry Christmas

William Ryden : A Celebration of Carols for SAB - Vol 2

Review: William Ryden is a noted composer and arranger who has been awarded an ASCAP Special Award for his works. Here is a classic collection of sixteen traditional carols arranged for unaccompanied SAB voices of moderate difficulty and suitable for choirs of all age and abilities. This collection is volume two.

Songlist: Good King Wenceslas, O Christmas Tree, O Santctissima, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, The Golden Carol, Lo, How Rose E'er Blooming, The First Nowell, De New-Born Baby, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Companions All Sing Loudly, Away In A Manger, March of the Three Kings, The Babe in Bethlhem's Manger Laid, Masters In This Hall, Silent Night

Antony Pitts : Naxos Book of Carols

Review: The Naxos Book of Carols is a collection of both the very old and very new. It is a selection of best-loved and new-found carols, drawing on centuries of tradition. The settings are all new, commissioned by Naxos for this book. The carols unfold in four narrative sequences each focusing on a different part of the Christmas Story - from The Hope of Advent to the announcements of The Message, the joy of the birth of The Baby and the celebration of the coming of The King of Kings. There are 24 carols, one for each day of Advent. Included with the book is the original Naxos CD, performed by the award-winning choir Tonus Peregrinus and directed by the composer Antony Pitts.

Songlist: O Come, O Come Emamanuel, Of the Father's heart begotten, O quickly come, Verbum Patris umanatur, Lo! He comes, The Holly And The Ivy, Lo, there a Rose is blooming, Alleluya - a new work, Ding! dong! merrily on high, While shepherds watched, The Song of Angels, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Silent Night, Away In A Manger, Baby Jesus, hush! now sleep, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, Jesu, the very thought is sweet, O Come, All Ye Faithful, The King of Kings, In dulci jubilo, Good King Wenceslas, We Three Kings, I saw three ships come sailing in, Hail to the Lord's Anointed

Peter Hunt : Voiceworks at Christmas - 30 Seasonal Songs

Review: Voiceworks at Christmas is an inspired new collection of 30 seasonal songs from unison to 4-part harmony and beyond. It's invaluable to all choral groups and overflows with festive cheer. The songs range from plainsong to jazz carols, gospel songs and folk pieces to well-known carols in sparkling new arrangements, and brand new carols by living composers. Voiceworks at Christmas features songs and carols suitable for singing at Advent, Christmas and secular occasions during the winter. Every type of voice at all stages of development can be accommodated, and, apart from the songs that specifically demand tenor and bass voices, they can be taken by anyone who can comfortably manage the range. The music is grouped loosely in themes, and each section contains a range of challenges from simple unison or two parts to fuller choral arrangements.

Songlist: Section I: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque, Creator of the Stars of Night, Gaudete!, En! Natus Est Emanuel, Zion Hears the Watchmen's Voices, Section II: Sacred Harp and West Gallery, Ye Nations all, On You I Call, Radiance, While Sheperds Watched, While Sheperds Watched, Section III: New Takes on Old Carols, I Saw Three Ships, Ding Dong! Merrily On High, Silent Night, Sans Day Carol, Noel Let Us Sing, Away in a Manger, Section IV: Spiritual and Gospel Connections, When the Sun's Reborn, Away in a Manger, Poor li'l Jesus, Behold that Star, Section V: Popular Connections, Mary's Lullaby, Ring Out the Bells, Mad World, Rudolf, the Red Nosed Reindeer, Section VI: Easy New Carols, Sing High, Sing Low, Kings Came Riding, and more

Mark De-Lisser : Sing Out! Christmas

Review: This book contains choral versions of five festive songs. The arrangements are by vocal coach and arranger Mark De-Lister, as performed by his ACM Gospel Choir. These crowd-pleasing songs have been selected for their uplifting lyrics and overall heart-warming feel making them a joy to sing. Arranged for SAT choir with the occasional solo part, this pack includes a download card with access to performance backing tracks, full demonstrations and individual rehearsal tracks for each vocal part. helpful hints for performing each piece are also included in the book, giving you everything you need to learn these wonderful songs.

Songlist: Happy Xmas (War Is Over), O Come All Ye Faithful, O Holy Night, Silent Night, Winter Wonderland

Royal School of Church Music : The Carol Book with CD

Review: This new comprehensive resource for Christmas, Advent, and Epiphany not only offers one of the largest collections of carols ever published, but a range of support material that sets totally new standards in Christmas publishing. The Carol Book includes 150 carols in various settings, service outlines, prayers, readings, and blessings that will enhance your worship. It also includes a CD-ROM containing clip-art, service layouts, instrumental parts, and carol texts that you can paste into your service sheets. Edited by David Iliff and John Barnard, the carols from this book are an indispensable resource that reminds us why Christmas is so special to us. Each song in The Carol Book is formatted to be suitable for photocopying. Permission to reprint can be obtained from OneLicense.net.CD-ROM includes acompaniments without interlined words, accompaniments with guitar chords, accompaniments with solo instrumental parts, audio accompaniments, instrumental and orchestral parts, texts of all carols, prayers and other liturgical material, sets of readings, dramatised version of traditional readings, outline orders of service and clip art for carol service or concert programmes.ÊDownload the complete contents

Joseph M. Martin : Sing a Song of Christmas

Review: Written especially for developing choirs, this festive SA(T)B cantata is overflowing with joyful seasonal songs ideal for smaller ensembles. Original material mingles with traditional carols in a jubilant mix, crafted to create large musical impact with minimal numbers and rehearsal time. The musical variety ranges from galloping gospels, to contemporary ballads and joyful carols to tender manger lullabies. Larger groups can take advantage of the cued notes for richer sonorities and still enjoy the sensitive care taken to minimize awkward passages for quick learning. A flexible narration allows thoughtful directors to customize their programs while optional orchestral support brings appropriate instruments to the programming of this innovative cantata for Christmas. The cantata can even be done progressively throughout Advent and completed during Christmas celebrations. Available separately: SA(T)B, Listening CD, Preview Pack (Book/CD combo), 10-Pack Listening CDs, Orchestration (Score & parts for keyboard, flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone and percussion), StudioTrax CD (Accompaniment only), SplitTrax CD, RehearsalTrax CDs (part-predominant, reproducible). Duration: ca. 27:00.

Joseph M. Martin : Sing a Song of Christmas

Review: Written especially for developing choirs, this festive SA(T)B cantata is overflowing with joyful seasonal songs ideal for smaller ensembles. Original material mingles with traditional carols in a jubilant mix, crafted to create large musical impact with minimal numbers and rehearsal time. The musical variety ranges from galloping gospels, to contemporary ballads and joyful carols to tender manger lullabies. Larger groups can take advantage of the cued notes for richer sonorities and still enjoy the sensitive care taken to minimize awkward passages for quick learning. A flexible narration allows thoughtful directors to customize their programs while optional orchestral support brings appropriate instruments to the programming of this innovative cantata for Christmas. The cantata can even be done progressively throughout Advent and completed during Christmas celebrations. Available separately: SA(T)B, Listening CD, Preview Pack (Book/CD combo), 10-Pack Listening CDs, Orchestration (Score & parts for keyboard, flute, clarinet, trumpet, trombone and percussion), StudioTrax CD (Accompaniment only), SplitTrax CD, RehearsalTrax CDs (part-predominant, reproducible).