SKU: AP.43340

UPC: 038081488813. English.

This glorious processional will create an impressive opening at your holiday concert or worship service. Modal harmonies and open intervals are not difficult to sing, but capture the sound of the season. And a light SoundPax instrumentation adds to the stately effect.

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: ST.Y287

ISBN 9790220223198.

Composed for the internationally regarded Choir of New College, Oxford, and its conductor Edward Higginbottom, Rhian Samuel's What Cheer? is a bright and uplifting new setting of words already familiar to singers from popular carols by William Walton and Peter Warlock. The scoring is for SATB choir and organ, with optional short solos for soprano, alto and bass.

An eminent and established song composer, Samuel has brought to this text, originally from a 16th-century commonplace book compiled by Richard Hill, her own idiomatic response to the tradition of music for Christmas. Though written for one of the world's great vocal ensembles, What Cheer? is well within the range of accomplished amateur choirs, and the effective scoring for voices captures in ringing choral sounds the buoyant optimism of this poetic celebration of Christ's birth.

SKU: PR.UE021717

ISBN 9783702474096. UPC: 803452071204.

George Arthur, director of Southampton University Chamber Choir and now award-winning composer, joins the Universal Edition catalog with four choral works for a cappella choir. In a setting more akin to show choir, I Saw Three Ships is a high-end arrangement of the traditional folk song, using a tricky rhythm structure. Well worth the extra time in preparation as a feature on your Christmas program.

SKU: CA.990800

ISBN 9790007087012. Language: Latin.

John Van Buren's Gloria was composed in 1996 for the Maulbronner Kammerchor, which introduced this work in Germany and on tours to Russia and Argentina. It has since also been heard in Italy, Holland and the USA. John Van Buren writes about his work: The beginning of my Gloria is initially very restrained, even cautious. It is extremely chromatic, the sound only gradually opening out to become a song of praise. The work grows in a steady crescendo until it arrives at an 8-part fortissimo sound (B major). Finally, the expression of great vitality gives place to a soprano melody which floats calmly above the choral sound, and the work dies away pianissimo.

SKU: CA.315260

ISBN 9790007176242. Key: F major. Language: German.

SKU: XC.SATB2209A

9 x 6 inches.

A new Christmas showstopper! This arrangement is full of joy and excitement. This is wonderful introduction to eight-part singing for a choir, with its repetitive lines and memorable rhythms, but is no less enjoyable for advanced groups to sing. The song pulses with a celebratory rhythm, allowing the stunning original melody to dance around within the surrounding texture. This is also a great piece to give to a group that doesn't sing much French-- the text is quite repetitive.

SKU: GI.G-8596

UPC: 785147859604. English. Text by Adam M. L. Tice. Scripture: John 1:14, 1 Corinthians 13.