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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
Duration

published by Oxford University Press
0-19-385910-6

Away In A Manger

SATB unaccompanied

A quiet, rich setting that expresses both the serenity, peace, and underlying lonliness of having a baby away from home.

Difficulty rating: Moderately Easy
Duration 2:35

$1.75

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Christmas Eve

SATB plus trebles
Text by Sheila Dunlop

A joyful celebration of the events of Christmas Eve, the perfect piece to join your adult and children's choruses for a special Chrismas concert or service.

Difficulty rating: Moderately Easy
Duration 2:20

$1.75

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Christmas 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 versions add color, and use 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.

The full orchestra version, newly available, (2 fl (II+picc), 2 ob (II+ca), 2 cl, 2 bn, 4 hn, 3 tpt, 2 tbn, btbn, tba, timp, 4 perc, hp, str) can also be played on it's own, without the chorus.

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
Duration:

published by Oxford University Press
978-0-19-387042-0

 

First Snow

Listen to the Southwest ACDA Treble Honor Choir
SA / piano
Text by Sheila Dunlop

A contemplation on the change of seasons in nature and in life. Layered meanings speak to all ages, and a melody that stays with you.

Difficulty rating: Moderate
Duration 2' 50"

published by Oxford University Press
0-19-386760-5

Full Fathom Five

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SATB divisi unaccompanied
Text by William Shakespeare

A rich, dense setting of Arial's song from Shakespeare's play THE TEMPEST, a reflection on loss and the nature of memory..

Difficulty rating: Difficult
Duration 3' 30"

price $1.75

Heart-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

Hymn To The Mother of Light

Audio (instrumental demo)
SATB unaccompanied (optional organ)
Text by Sheila Dunlop

While originally concieved for a Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols service, this is appropriate for more general use. it is a mystical meditation on the nature of light and existence.

Difficulty rating: moderately difficult
Duration 3:15

Score options

SATB with reduction $1.75 SATB Organ (landscape) $1.75

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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

Jingle Bells (SATB unaccompanied version)

Watch Molly Holleran, Abigail Wright, Justin Raffa, and Reginald Unterseher on YouTube

SATB unaccompanied
Text and tune by James Lord Pierpont

Perfect for those holiday parties or promotional appearances as well as concert use, this isa mostly straightforward arrangement with just a bit of a twist and a big finish. You can sing it with just a quartet or a larger ensemble. There are some voicing options at the end to take advantage of different sized ensembles.

Difficulty rating: Moderately difficult
Duration 1:30

$1.75

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Patapan

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
Duration

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