(Featuring: Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / Gesu Bambino / In the Bleak Midwinter / Silent Night). Arranged by Laura Farnell. Choir Secular. Women's Choir. Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Form: Medley. Christmas; Winter. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Featuring: Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / Gesu Bambino / In the Bleak Midwinter / Silent Night). Arranged by Laura Farnell. Choir Secular. 3-Part Mixed Choir (SAB). Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Form: Medley. Christmas; Winter. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Featuring: Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / Gesu Bambino / In the Bleak Midwinter / Silent Night). Arranged by Laura Farnell. Choir Secular. SATB choir. Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Form: Medley. Christmas; Winter. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Flute, Piano Accompaniment - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: HL.14024588

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Music Sales America. Post-1900. Sheet Music, Instrumental Work. With Text language: English. Chester Music #CH61595. Published by Chester Music (HL.14024588).

UPC: 884088811372. 8.5x11.0x0.163 inches.

This dreamlike and evocative piece from Peter Maxwell Davies was originally composed for Flute and orchesta. Here it is presented as Flute with Piano reduction and still captures the wonder and sanctuary of the composer's home, surrounded by seabirds and seals that fire the imagination in childlike ways, evoking images of mermaids and angels. The Flute solo is both tranquil and highly virtuosic and is well supported by the Piano accompaniment. The piece was first performed in May 1999 at the Royal Concert Hall, Dublin.

(Angels We Have Heard on High!). Arranged by Ken Berg. (SSA). Sacred Christmas Choral. 12 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

String Quartet (String Quartet) - Grade 4

SKU: HL.14030952

Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sales America. Classical. Studyscore. Composed 2002. 50 pages. Edition Wilhelm Hansen #WH30294B. Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen (HL.14030952).

ISBN 9788759867747. 8.25x11.75x0.241 inches. English.

The Full Score for Angels' Music for String Quartet.

Angels We Have Heard on High (No. 7 from "Carols of the Nativity") arranged by Stephen Chatman. For SSATBB, opt. piano or organ (Mixed Voices). Christmas. Choral. 12 pages. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing

Born the King of Angels (Artistic Carol Settings for the Piano Soloist). For piano solo. Christmas, Sacred. Moderately Advanced. Sac Pno. Published by Lillenas Publishing Company

Chamber Music soprano Saxophone 1, soprano Saxophone 2, soprano Saxophone 3

SKU: PR.114419960

Composed by Stacy Garrop. Set of Score and Parts. 20+8+8+8 pages. Duration 12 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41996. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114419960).

ISBN 9781491135037. UPC: 680160683130.

I have always been fascinated with the concept of archangels - huge, supernatural beings with gigantic wings who visit earth to carry out their heavenly tasks. Archangels are the chief angels in Judeo-Christian and Islamic religions. The precise number of these high-ranking celestial beings varies from one religious source to another (typically from four to seven). The three movements of Archangels depict Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel - the three archangels most commonly referenced. Michael is a warrior who is ever vigilant to march into battle against forces of evil. In art, he is often portrayed with his wings spread open in mid-flight and wielding a large sword that is raised into an attack position. The first movement begins in darkness with the foreboding sound of his large, beating wings. Suddenly, Michael appears in all of his terrible glory and wreaks havoc on an army of demons. Raphael is a Hebraic name that translates to God heals, and he is in charge of all manners of healing. Artwork of Raphael typically shows him holding a staff, and he is often pictured with the round cheeks associated with a young cherub. In this quiet middle movement, Raphael gently makes his rounds to tend to the sick. Gabriel is the heralder of news. In Christianity, Gabriel's purpose is quite significant: he appears to Zechariah to announce the forthcoming birth of John the Baptist, and to Mary to announce the forthcoming birth of Jesus. Gabriel is often depicted holding a scepter, a stem of lilies, or an unfurled scroll. In this final movement of the piece, Gabriel trumpets his news for all to hear. -S.G.

Parts for String Quartet No.3 'Angel's Music' by Bent Sorensen (1988) Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Danish Radio Concert Hall 16 November 1988. Score available: KP00250 The composer writes: 'Even when I was writing Adieu, I knew that I wished to write Angels Music. The title existed in an incomplete form in my mind and gradually more and more ideas and a few outlines became clear. The actual work on Angels Music was started in Rome, where I spent the autumn of 1987 staying at The Danish Academy. Whether this stay has influenced the quartet or not is impossible to say. however, it is true to say that, in the Roman churches I visited, I saw countless angels playing in the top of frescoes and altars. Without these angels, together with the many crackled-gold paintings in this city and my general fascination with the Italian renaissance painter Fra Angelico, (in fact there are only a few paintings by him in Rome, but even his name..!) I am not sure my quartet would have been what it is. Anyway I do feel that there is a bit of Italy in the piece. The angels apart there are, in the short rhythmic agitating part of the quartet, reminiscences of the Italian medieval Trotto dance, and in the most expressive part ofthe piece there are flashes of Puccini-like music. From the very beginning of my work on the quartet, the distant, extremely muted sound in the high register which opens the piece, was on my mind. A sound satiated with a dense heterophonic and polyphonic texture of elegiac melody and vibrating trills. I imagined that little songs (maybe angel songs) could be created in this density, these songs constantly echoing themselves. Gradually as this sound got a more and more concrete musical and instrumental form, I felt, that not only should the little songs be created, played and die out in an echo, but also that the general pattern of the quartet should give the feeling of music which, from the distance, is getting closer and closer, culminates and at last disappears like an echo. Related to this, the general pattern of Angels Music is divided into three: a pre-echo, culmination and echo.. The relationship between the three part is 5: 6: 4. The reason why I can say this precisely and prosaically is that it was necessary to me to mark the overall guidelines before I started to compose. I had to do this in order to enable the relationships to crawl from the small cells into the general pattern.'