Gustav Holst's Assemble All Ye Maidens Op.44 No.7 for SSA with Piano accompaniment with words by Robert Bridges.

Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refreshing and lovely work for Christmas and winter. With ease and grace this choral is a musical setting worthy of any December performance for mixedvoices as well as men's and women's ensembles.

Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refreshing and lovely work for Christmas and winter. With ease and grace this choral is a musical setting worthy of any December performance for mixedvoices as well as men's and women's ensembles.

The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls’ School in London where Holst taught. The song is scored for Female Voices SA with a small echo choir unaccompanied and is full of recognizably Holstian shifting harmonies and Vocal effects. In 1847 Alfred Tennyson later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom published a narrative poem The Princess that concerned the education of women. In The Princess set at a summer fete a new college for women is created by Princess Ida. A Prince and his friends infiltrate dressed as women. A love story ensues. ThePrincess was also the source material for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida.

Discovery Level 2-The simple uncomplicated beauty of this Spanish-flavored song offers younger singers a chance to develop a sense a phrasing and tone. From the animated film The Book of Life this sweet song describes the feelings of the two main characters Manoloand Maria.