SKU: AP.47737

UPC: 038081544304. English.

Made popular by American Idol star David Archuleta and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on their Glad Christmas Tidings album, this original carol tells the Christmas story from the perspective of two animals in the stable. And the night skies rang as the angels sang, when love came down to the earth. Appropriate for both school and church.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: AP.49728

UPC: 038081568157. English. Words by Haven Gillespie.

Jolly jing-a-ling-a's provide hip transitions and bright bookends in this jazzed-up version of the great Christmas standard. Kirby's arrangement fits the tune like a glove, and will last in your library year after year. Eight bars in the middle may be repeated as many times as desired, and opened up to include vocal and/or instrumental soloists, improvisation, scat singing, gradual stacking of written lines, etc. Just be sure to save a little something for the shout chorus that follows! SoundPax includes four horn parts, but easily adapts for rhythm section alone.

SKU: AP.51137

UPC: 038081581743. English.

Paint a peaceful winter scene with the tender vocal lines and ethereal piano accompaniment of this striking original. A gentle ode to heavenly stars and falling snow, it is appropriate for any winter concert and features the kind of harmony you love to teach and sing. As a special touch, perform the final verse a cappella to heighten the quiet wonder. Hearts take hold, dreams take flight, on this sweet silent night.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: GI.G-005830

This well-loved Christmas lullaby and creative adaptation sings of Christ's birth and calls to mind the beauty of that day. Composer and arranger Ellen Coman has presented a harp-like piano accompaniment as the foundation for the simple melody. After the initial unison statement, a countermelody in the second voice adds colorful counterpoint and charming echoes, transforming Infant Holy, Infant Lowly into a valuable Christmas piece for younger or treble choirs.

SKU: GI.G-008208

UPC: 641151082080. English.

Here is a wonderful piece based on Psalm 89 for your young adults and teens. Ed writes in a style that appeals to the contemporary side of liturgical music, but more traditional ensembles are finding his compositions refreshing and a pleasure to learn and perform as well. Uses: Advent, Advent 4 B, Christmas at the Vigil Mass, Easter, Easter 3 C, OT 13 A, Anointing of the Sick, Covenant, Praise, Love of God for Us, Adoration, Song, RCIA, Ordination, Mission.