'Close Harmony' offers unaccompanied arrangements of a variety of well-loved songs from the 1920's to the 1970's. Performances should work equally well with choirs or just four voices. Arranged by Nicholas Hare for SSAA. Helpful performance notes are included for each of the songs and the arrangements are notated on two staves for easy piano rehearsal.

The new 2018 Edition of John Høybye's The Slow Spring from 1977. Dedicated to Thomas Morley in memory of his beautifuland optimistic madrigal “Now is the Month of Maying” The Slow Spring is a short and unusual choral setting of the writing of Tom Kristensen impatiently yearning for the coming of Spring. Kristensen's evocative and stirring poetry translated to English by Martin Allwood are employed as both song and accompaniment as the choral group is split into two factions. An set of SATB soloists are set against an SSAA chorus to provide a compelling variety of textures and the plosivepossibilities of the words themselves are fully explored with whispers held vowels and dramatic percussive consonants.

30 Sacred Masterworks presents a wealth of invaluable original repertoire for Upper Voice choirs selected and edited by Judith Blezzard.Part of Faber Music's acclaimed Choral Programme series this practical resource features many new performance editions from Medieval to Modern Renaissance to Romantic.A vibrant and versatile collection that will cater for services concerts and events throughout the year.

The Lord Is My Shepherd Psalm 23 scored for female voices SSAA by Franz Schubert.

The inspiring journey of the three kings to Bethlehem is beautifully told through words and music in Peter Maxwell Davies' wonderful setting of George Mackay Brown's text. The piece is arranged for SSAA voices a cappella but aPiano part is provided for rehearsal purposes.

Il Est Bel Et Bon (SSAA) English/French-Renaissance French composer Pierre Passereau was a popular creator of chanson rustiques in Paris and at court the early 1500’s. The songs that survive are almost all of a hearty style with plenty of onomatopoeia double entendres puns and occasional indelicacies employing graceful melody polyphony and sometimes chordal passages.Il es bel et bon has retained popularity almost since it was written. There is evidence that this song was sung as far away as Venice in the 1500's. Here composer Helen Cockburn makes the most of the delightful clucking cuckooing passages and the English words have retained most of the original’s consonants to good effect.

Designed to showcase that special soloist in your choir this spiritual gets an upbeat a cappella treatment that allows for an optional audience sing- or snap-along. For SSAA a cappella this traditional piece has been beautifully arranged by Kirby Shaw.Also available for SATB a cappella - Catalogue No.: HL08666112

Howard Goodall's setting of Love Divine for accompanied SSAA choir uses a well-loved text by Charles Wesley.

Originally part of Brahms's Requiem Op.45 this undulating and expressive setting has been arranged by H.A. Chambers for a chorus of high voices with a full Piano accompaniment derived from the orchestral score.

Music from an old French Noel with text by the Canon JMC Crum. Written for the upper voices with a Piano part provided for rehearsal purposes.

Sixteenth composer John Farmer was a composer of church music and madrigals of which Fair Phyllis is the best known and most frequently performed. The finely textured work employs lightly skipping counterpoint in the ‘Up and down’ passages and an expressive change of time signature in the ‘kissing’ section.

Schubert's setting of a text by Franz Grillparzer for Contralto soloist with a chorus of high voices and Piano.