SATB choir, a cappella - Medium

SKU: PL.0721

Composed by Donald Hunt. Cathedral. Choral, Christmas. Octavo. Paraclete Press #0721. Published by Paraclete Press (PL.0721).

Set of two carols with medieval and 15th century macaronic texts (English and Latin) - beautiful melodies with some divisi at high points - broad dynamic ranges add character and emphasis to the texts.

Unison voices, organ - Beginning

SKU: MN.50-1300

Composed by Charles E. Callahan Jr. Christmas, 21st Century. Octavo. MorningStar Music Publishers #50-1300. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.50-1300).

UPC: 688670513008.

Unique writing with vocal line in 6/8 and accompaniment in 3/4! Lovely medieval tune DIES EST LAETITIAE, Dost Thou in a Manger Lie from Piae Cantiones, 1582. Adult Unison Voices and Organ.

Choral (SSATB a cappella)

SKU: HL.1340670

Arranged by Philip Lawson. Sacred Christmas Choral. Christmas. Octavo. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.1340670).

UPC: 196288189558. 6.75x10.5 inches.

This 13th century melody is arranged for high school choirs looking to expand into polyphony for the Christmas season. Smoothy melodic lines give way to smart challenges in range, while the B section dabbles in counterpoint--a perfect opportunity for study of Medieval forms.

String Quartet

SKU: HL.14030979

Score. Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #KP30120. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14030979).

Parts available: KP00248 The composer writes: The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval munks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again.

Choral Bass, Finger Cymbals, Hand Drum, Piano, tenor voice

SKU: CF.CM9756

On This Day. Composed by Anonymous Elizabethan. Arranged by Austin Hunt. Mjts. Duration 2 minutes, 21 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #CM9756. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM9756).

ISBN 9781491162446. UPC: 680160921195. Key: E minor. Latin, English.

Personent Hodie is a medieval Christmas carol from the larger work Piae Cantiones—a published collection of songs intended for cathedral schools in 16th century Finland. The original tune uses modality and plainchant to evoke the mysterious character of Christmastide.This rhythmic setting of Personent Hodie expresses the tune in compound meter, resulting in a joyful energy. The optional hand drum and finger cymbals complement the melody with an exciting, dance-like pulse.“Ideo, gloria in excelsis Deo!”Therefore, glory be in the highest to God!Ideas for study and reflection: How might word stress be used to enhance overall musicality? What syllables should be stressed vs. unstressed? What dynamic markings are indicted in the score, and where do they occur? Listen to a recording of the original “Personent Hodie” written in 4/4 time. How are the two settings different? .

Brass Band - Grade 2.5

SKU: BT.GOB-000008-030

Composed by Patrick Millstone. Set (Score & Parts). 28 pages. Gobelin Music Publications #GOB 000008-030. Published by Gobelin Music Publications (BT.GOB-000008-030).

Rondeau of the Shepherds, so ran the official title of the famous Dutch Christmas carol ‘Midden in de winternacht’.
In 1948 wrote Dutch poet and writer Harry Prenen this text. The melody is known by the 17th/18th- century organ composers of suites Daquin, Balbastre and Dandrieu.
Rondeau of the Shepherds was subtitled Catalan Christmas Carol.
The song itself is because its origins in a Spanish (Catalan probably) Christmas song from the late Middle Ages, El Desembre congelat. The motives of this song (shepherds, flutes, drums) demonstrate knowledge of the Bible and give a picture of the late medieval Christmas experience. .
Perfect as an uptempo intermezzoin a church service.

‘Rondeau der herders’, zo luidde de officiële titel van het bekende kerstlied ‘Midden in de winternacht’.
In 1948 schreef dichter en schrijver Harry Prenen de tekst hiervan. De melodie is vooral bekend door de 17e/18e-eeuwse orgelsuitesvan de componisten Daquin, Balbastre en Dandrieu.
Het ‘Rondeau der Herders’ kreeg de ondertitel ‘Catalaans Kerstlied’.
Het lied zelf vindt namelijk zijn oorsprong in een Spaans (waarschijnlijk Catalaans) kerstlieduit de late middeleeuwen: ‘El Desembre congelat’. De motieven van dit lied (herders, fluiten, trommels, spontaan bloeiende natuur) getuigen van bijbelkennis en geven een beeld van de laatmiddeleeuwse kerstbeleving. .
Ideaalals uptempo intermezzo in een kerkdienst.

Composed by Various. Arranged by Chapman. Score and part. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.10324).

Mixed choir (STBar) and instruments (4 Tr. (od. 4 Sopranblockfl.) * 2 Pos. (od. Gamben od. Bratschen) * Fg. ad lib. - 4 P. S. (Glsp. [Sopr., Alt, mehrfach besetzt]) * Trgl. * Beck. [Cymb.] * gr. Tr. * Schellentr. (10 Spieler) - 2 Git. (mehrfach besetzt) - Violoncelli * Kontrabasse) - easy

SKU: HL.49006273

Sumer is icumen in. Composed by Carl Orff. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Score. Composed 1972. 32 pages. Duration 4'. Schott Music #ED 6412. Published by Schott Music (HL.49006273).

ISBN 9790001068086. 9.0x12.0x0.135 inches. Old English.

The first known canon of European art music, now in the British Museum in London, is preserved in a thirteenth-century manusript from the English abbey in Reading: This is the so-called summer canon, whose verses greet the advent of summer. An accompanying note elucidates the artistic layer-like construction of the sound structure: a two-voice foundation of bell-like, swinging pendulum tones supports an upper structure of four voices which enter at equal time intervals. The note terms the canon rota * round -, which makes reference to the turning, circling movement of the constantly pulsating sound. The circular figure originates in a vital, ages-old moving force in music-making, and it demands a dance-like execution. But the canon is also, through the interaction of the strictly ordered voice entries, convivially bound musical form. Carl Orff was able to choose no better fitting musical form for the Greetings to Youth at the Olympic Games 1972 in Munich than the medieval rota. In the connexion of the singing voices with the Orff instruments, today in world-wide use, a testimony of European tradition sounds in a living present.