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A New Year
Mixed Choir SATB, 4 Handbells, and Organ
Text by Sheila Dunlop
An easily prepared, festive piece to start the year with positive energy. Mostly unison chorus with some two-part sections and a few four-part chords. The handbells can be easily played by two choir members.
Difficulty rating: Easy
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published by Oxford University Press
0-19-385910-6Christmas Joy!
SATB chorus (optional audience sing-along) and piano
Piano 4 hands and Orchestra versions available.
1. Deck the Hall
2. Jingle Bells
3. O Christmas Tree
4. Here We Come A-Wassailing/We Wish You A Merry Christmas
These pieces make a terrific closer for your holiday concert. Familiar secular Christmas songs, complete with opportunities for the audience to join in, sure to send them singing on their way. It has been successfully presented by community orchestras and choruses, college and university orchestras and choruses, and high school orchestras and choruses. The orchestral version adds color, and uses easily available instruments. If orchestra is not available to you, try the piano 4 hands version!
The orchestral instrumentation matches the small orchestra version of the Rutter Magnificat, and was originally written to close a concert that started with that work.
Accompaniment for small orchestra (1.1.1.1.-1.0.0.0-timp.perc-hp-str) is available on rental from OUP
A piano 4 hands version is also available by calling 1-800-292-0639
Difficulty rating: Easy
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published by Oxford University Press
978-0-19-387042-0The Distant Fire
Organ and Trumpet (optional Bass Drum and Susp. Cymbal)
This piece is a commemoration, a lament, a remembrance in the dark of violence and terror. It opens and closes with trumpet and organ, as at a funeral. Then, the dream intrudes, the scenes of explosions and sparks from far away, the rumblings and indistinct flashes of light, the scenes that we can't quite make out or understand. They fade, but not entirely, as we return to the present scene, brought back by the playing of "Taps", the traditional call for the fallen.
Duration 4'
price: $10.00Heart-Child of the Spirit
SATB / organ, 4 handbells, windchimes or Zimbelstern
Text by Nancy Welliver, based on "Corde natus ex Parentis"
by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, 4th century CE
With the familiar tune we associate with "Of The Father's Love Begotten," DIVINUM MYSTERIUM, these words more accurately reflect the old Latin chant "Corde natus ex Parentis." "You, the well-spring of all music, You, the silence at its end, were and are and ever shall be." The setting is easily learned and performed. The tenors sing with the basses almost all the time, and most of the part-singing is simply the melody sung canonically. The bell parts are very simple, and are intended to be played by 2 players.
Difficulty rating: Easy
Duration 3:00
$1.75
In Solitude
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SATB (male and female solos)/ two handbells (one player), optional organ
Text by Ruth Duck, Tune LAND OF REST
Serene, meditative setting of a beautiful text by Ruth Duck using a favorite tune from the Sacred Harp. Two soloists sing all the words, so it can be sung without the chorus with a sustaining keyboard (organ or synthesizer). The handbell parts are extremely simple, a repeating ring with only two bells.
Difficulty rating: Moderately Easy
Duration 3:25
$1.75
Jingle Bells
Two-part or Mixed Chorus/ piano
Text and tune by James Lord Pierpont
Difficulty rating: Easy
Duration 1:45
published by Oxford University Press
0-19-386768-0
A Mighty Fortress *coming soon*
SATB/ organ, trumpet
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Audio *coming soon*
SA/ recorder, hand drum, tambourine, and finger cymbals
Traditional Burgundian Carol
"Willie, take your little drum..." A simple, dance-like two part arrangement of the traditional carol with soprano recorder and percussion. The percussion parts can often be played by the singers.
Difficulty rating: Moderately Easy
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published by Oxford University Press
0-19-386657-9
Pilgrim Spring
SATB / piano and oboe
(score includes alternate parts for B flat Clarinet, Horn in F, and Cello that can be substituted fo rthe oboe)
Text by Reginald Unterseher and Sheila Dunlop
With words by Sheila Dunlop and the composer and the tune BEACH SPRING, this piece uses metaphors of the change of winter to spring. “…and the ones who live in darkness shall be children of the light.” It is appropriate for both sacred and secular performance.
Difficulty rating: Moderate
Duration: 3:50
published by Oxford University Press
0-19-386659-5
Sacrifice *coming soon*
SATB / percussion
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Audio demo (generated by Sibelius)
SSA / piano
Text by Reginald Unterseher
This piece comes from a dream image. We see a dancing woman, alone at first, spinning with her arms spread wide. Her children join in under the starry sky. She begins to rise, and our eyes are drawn up, following her. Her twirling hair becomes the spiral galaxies, a nd the dance becomes the movement of the stars, all woven together. The piece is about a woman, it is about women, it is about Woman, it is about joy.
Difficulty rating: Moderately difficult
Duration 3:25
The Steady LIght
This short piece is the perfect closer for your concert or worship service. The words are not specifically religious, but speak to themes of spirituality and legacy, honoring our place in the world and those who have gone before us.
Unaccompanied Versions:
Versions available for Mixed chorus divisi, SSAA, and TTBBDifficulty rating: Moderate
Duration 1:40
Male Ensemble Northwest singing the TTBB unacc. version
Accompanied Versions
Voice options: Two part, SATB, solo or unison
Accompaniment options: Piano or Organ or String Quartet or String Orchestra
Difficulty rating: Easy
Duration 1:40
Walla Walla University "I Cantori" singing the SATB/piano version
$1.75 for vocal/accompaniment score
$15.00 for set of quartet parts
$20.00 for set of string orchestra parts