(Christmas Carols For Mixed Voices) Edited by Graham Buckland. For SATB choir (unaccompanied). Format: a capella songbook. With choral notation, lyrics, performance notes, introductory text and index of first lines. Christmas and holiday. 224 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben.

Baby, What You Goin' to Be?. (For SATB Voices with Keyboard). By Natalie Sleeth. SATB chorus. For Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Keyboard. Choral. Piano reduction/vocal score. Standard notation. 8 pages. Published by Carl Fischer

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Choral Selections). Arranged by Roger Emerson. For Choral (SATB). Broadway Choral. 52 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.139266). Nominated for seven Tony awards and winning two, this musical tells the story of one of pop music's legends, Carole King and her remarkable early career. In four flexible sections, this 12-minute medley is chock full of classic hits including: Beautiful, I Feel the Earth Move, It's Too Late, Love Potion Number 9, On Broadway, Poison Ivy, So Far Away, Splish Splash, Stupid Cupid, There Goes My Baby, Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Yakety Yak.

Arranged by Mac Huff. (SATB score). Choral. Size 9x12 inches. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

((How Beautiful You Are)). By Babbie Mason/Eulalia King. Arranged by Billy Payne. SATB Chorus and Solo. PraiseSong Christmas Series. 12 pages

Edited by Sigmund Spaeth. For Choir. (a cappella). Choral Collection. Barbershop. Book. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Arranged by Mark A. Brymer. (Satb Singer). Choral. Size 6.7x10.5 inches. 56 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Arranged by Mac Huff. (SATB Singer). Secular Christmas Choral. Size 6.75x10.5 inches. 64 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Chorus a cappella

SKU: BR.CHB-5380-00

Composed by Howard Arman. Choir; stapled. Chor-Bibliothek (Choral Library). Song; Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Choral score. 40 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #ChB 5380-00. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.CHB-5380-00).

ISBN 9790004413814. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German / Latin.

As director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, Howard Arman has been actively engaged with international Christmas carols through various Christmas-related CD productions in the past years. This has resulted in a number of original arrangements for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella, shedding new light on well-known classics such as O du frohliche [O, you joyful], Stille Nacht [Silent Night] and Lasst uns froh und munter sein [Let us be happy and cheerful]. The first volume includes five Christmas carols from the German-speaking regions. They range from simple but harmonically intriguing settings such as Lieb Nachtigall, wach auf [Dear nightingale, wake up] to eight-part sound paintings with bell-like chimes as in O du frohliche and classical double choir settings such as Resonet in laudibus. The second volume includes five Christmas spirituals with English texts, forming a contrast to the solemn and festive character of the first. The choir can prove its swing and jazz qualities here; the stirring arrangements are a gain for classical Christmas concerts, too. Following the tradition of the spiritual, some settings also require soloists, which can, however, also be recruited from the choir if adequate singers are available. The first piece combines the spirituals It's a Birthday and Wasn't That a Mighty Day to form a medley, Ain't That a Rockin' gives a moment of tranquility before the likewise rousing spirituals Mary Had a Baby and Little David conclude the volume. In both volumes, Howard Arman provides a short preface in German and English, explaining the background of each piece and giving advice on performance.

(Choral Highlights). Arranged by Mac Huff. For Choral (SATB). Pop Choral Series. 56 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Mixed choir

SKU: FG.55011-857-7

Composed by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė. Classical, contemporary. Book. Fennica Gehrman #55011-857-7. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-857-7).

Žibuoklė Martinaitytė tells about the background of Aletheia (2022) for mixed choir (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB): Aletheia is variously translated from Greek as unconcealedness, revealing or unclosedness. It is uncovering of the Truth - the one we are afraid to face, the truth that can only be expressed directly through the pre-verbal communication. How do you find words for the horrors of the war, for all unimaginable global atrocities? How do you even allow yourself to feel it out? Solely through art, through music that offer a safe space and a formalized framework for processing these accumulated complex emotions and sharing them with others in a moment. This piece has no verbal text and it is based on various combinations of vowels and consonants, thus connecting us on a deeper level through the immediate emotional experience.

The war in Ukraine in spring of 2022 had an impact on all of us and shattered my deeply rooted Lithuanian identity. When the freedom is threatened and innocent people are dying, it is hard to make sense out of the reality. Yet there is poetry even in the worst nightmares. I was imagining that the only instrument people have even in situations of destruction, in the midst of the war, is their VOICE. It brought back memories of my youth when Singing revolution was taking place in the Baltic countries. Human voice was the only weapon that people used to express their determination for freedom and independence. Voice is our first and the very last instrument we have in our lifetime. Thinking in these terms brings almost a sacred dimension to the voice as an expression of the life itself - from the very first baby's scream until the last breath and whisper.

Duration c. 15'

The works of New York -based Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b. 1973) have been lauded as breathtaking and profoundly moving. Her stimulating music bristles with energy and tension and revolves often around the subject of beauty, which she calls both a guiding principle and an aesthetic measure for sonic quality.

For SATB Choir. Christmas, Choral. Sheet Music. 280 pages. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.