By Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). Edited by Craig Courtney. For SATB choir and piano 4-hands. Sacred, Christian. Octavo. 16 pages

By Roy Hopp. For Voices: SATB with opt. Divisi; children's choir or soloist. Piano reduction. Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Music Series Sacred. Level: easy. 17 pages. Published by GIA Publications.

SATB choir and organ, with optional congregation, 1 or 2 trumpets, and handbells (4 octaves, treble Bells) (Instrumental Parts include: Trumpets I and II in C or Bb and Handbells (4 octaves, Treble Bells)) - Early Intermediate

SKU: MN.50-5331

Composed by Michael Burkhardt. Thanksgiving, Church Anniversary, Ordination/Installation. MorningStar Music Publishers #50-5331. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.50-5331).

UPC: 688670553318. English.

A hymn anthem with the themes of unity, thanksgiving, and outreach based on a Mary Jackson Cathey text. Features creative use of several optional instrumental combinations.

Choral SATB choir (SATB choir)

SKU: HP.C5367

Arranged by Mark Kellner. Piano Accompaniment. Hymntune, Hymn Arrangements, General Worship, Commitment, Devotion, Love, Adoration & Praise, Sacred. Octavo. 8 pages. Hope Publishing Company #C5367. Published by Hope Publishing Company (HP.C5367).

UPC: 763628153670. Joshua 22:5, Psalms 18:1, Deuteronomy 11:1,13,22, Deuteronomy 19:9.

Tune from Christian Harmony Arranger Mark Kellner looks back to the Sacred Harp tradition with this setting of a tune from Christian Harmony, a compilation of shaped-note songs from 1805. This arrangement approximates the flavor of this unique style, emphasizing that all parts be sung with gusto and a fairly stright tone. The overall effect is a strong, bracing declaration of praise.

ST vocal soli, SATB/SATB/SATB/SATB choir, organ

SKU: CA.2708303

Composed by Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch. Edited by Ryan Kelly. Sacred vocal music, Masses, Latin. Vocal score. FWV. 104 pages. Duration 23 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 27.083/03. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.2708303).

ISBN 9790007182090. Language: Latin.

Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch's Mass in 16 parts is remarkable for more than its unusual scoring. Inspired by the Italian church music style of Orazio Benevoli, it was composed in 1783 for the Berliner Sing-Akademie, and revised by Fasch several times throughout his life in order to adapt the score to the vocal capabilities of his ensemble. The composer destroyed all earlier compositions, which probably contributed to the legendary fame which this mass has enjoyed since the 19th century. The mass was, however, only published in 1839 - around four decades after Fasch's death. The present edition is based on the version contained in the first printed edition. In addition to modern music notation, extensive performance materials (two choral scores, separate organ part) facilitate the rehearsal of this challenging work. Score available separately - see item CA.2708300.

Solo voices, choir, orchestra (3 Soprano Voice Solo, 3 Tenor Voice Solo, 2 Bass Voice Solo, SATB Choir, 2 recorder-Alto, 2 Oboe, bassoon, 3 Trumpets, timpani, 3 Violins, Viola, Cello, Bassi(Vc, double bass, bassoon, harpisc.))

SKU: BA.BA04050

Opera in three acts. Composed by George Frideric Handel. Edited by Dorothea Schröder. This edition: complete edition, urtext edition. Linen. Halle Handel Edition (HHA) Series II, Volume 1. Oper, Barock (Opera, Baroque). Complete edition, Score. HWV 1. Duration 3 hours, 30 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04050_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04050).

ISBN 9790006443598. 33 x 26 cm inches. Language: German. Text: Feustking, Friedrich Christian.

“A lmira”, Handel’s first opera, was well received when premiered in 1705 at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg. The director was Reinhard Keiser, who, remarkably, had himself already set Friedrich Christian Feustking’s text to music. The role of Fernando was sung by Johann Mattheson. The translation used by Handel leaves several Italian arias in their original language, resulting in a delightful mixture of German and Italian.

The opera which, after sundry entangled romances, ends in the wedding of three couples, is characterised by exuberant scenes: the procession at Almira’s crowning ceremony, a duel, a prison scene and a masked-ball involving the three continents Europe, Africa and Asia.

The vocal score to “Almira” by George Frideric Handel brings about a small sensation: Whilst conducting a reenactment of this work in 1732, Georg Philipp Telemann removed the Aria no. 28 “Ingrato, spietato” from his conducting score. Since then this aria has been deemed lost. Due to necessity only the edited vocal text devoid of any music was presented in the 1994 volume of the “Halle Handel Edition”.
Thanks to a recently discovered contemporary manuscript copy from the beginning of the 18th century which was found in the music library of the Mariengymnasium in Jever, this aria has now been made available to performers for the first time in this new vocal score edition. Previous to this the corresponding pages could only be seen as a facsimile in an article of the “Göttinger Händel-Beiträgeâ� �.
Now the aria can be performed again. Furthermore, with the help of this new source, missing measures in the basso continuo which had initially been completed by the editor of the “Halle Handel Edition” volume, could be reconstructed from the basso continuo part of the Bellante aria “Ich brenne zwar” (no. 71).

About Barenreiter Urtext

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MUSICOLOGICA LLY SOUND
- A reliable musical text based on all available sources
- A description of the sources
- Information on the genesis and history of the work
- Valuable notes on performance practice
- Includes an introduction with critical commentary explaining source discrepancies and editorial decisions

... AND PRACTICAL
- Page-turns, fold-out pages, and cues where you need them
- A well-presented layout and a user-friendly format
- Excellent print quality
- Superior paper and binding

Soli SATB, SATB Choir, 3 Flutes, 2 Oboes, english horn, 2 Violins, Viola, Basso continuo

SKU: CA.3112209

Cantata for the Sunday after Christmas. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Christiane Hausmann. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. 3x 31.122/21 3 flutes, 1x 31.122/22 oboe 1, 1x 31.122/23 oboe 2, 1x 31.122/24 English horn. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal. Harmony parts. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas, Christmas. Set of Orchestra Parts. Composed 1724. BWV 122. 24 pages. Duration 16 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.122/09. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3112209).

ISBN 9790007207403. Language: German/English.

Mor e than usual, in this chorale cantata the hymn is continuously present; it appears as the cantus firmus in four of the six movements and gives the work an overall unity. In addition to the opening chorus and in the closing chorale, it appears in a trio, a rare occurrence in Bach's vocal works, and even in a recitative. The latter is performed by recorders. The rich scoring for winds - besides the recorders it also includes three oboes - characterizes this cantata, which is performed after Christmas and whose text refers back to Christmas and also points to the new year. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.3112200.

Composed by Jacob Narverud. Fold. Octavo. 8 pages. Duration 2 minutes. Carl Fischer Music #CM9648. Published by Carl Fischer Music

(Choir/Worship Team Edition (No Accompaniment)). By Various. Sacred Folio. 272 pages. Word Music #080689444173. Published by Word Music

By Lloyd Larson (Arranger). For SATB Choir. Choral, Arrangements, Bass/Percussion, General Use, Missions, Tracks, Youth Choirs and Sacred. Sheet Music. Published by Shawnee Press.

SATB choir

SKU: CA.965300

Antiphon for Holy Thursday. Composed by Ko Matsushita. Edited by Stefan Schuck. Contemporary Choir Music. Sacred vocal music, Holy Week. Full score. Composed 2014. 4 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 09.653/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.965300).

ISBN 9790007164881. Language: Latin.

For the moving moment in the Good Friday liturgy, when the priest symbolically washes the feet of several people thereby recalling the thoughtful, loving gesture of Christ at the Last Supper, the Christian church provides a specially intimate, conciliatory text in the antiphon Ubi caritas. Matsushita's composition sets this text quite simply to reflect this moment in a beautiful motet, which is both charming and grateful to sing. In an entirely tonal setting in F major, with chromatic accents sparingly employed, he uses elements from organum and pedal points to create tonally atmospheric expanses contrasting with the syllabic setting which runs throughout. In his writing he uses unisons, thirds and contrary motion, spanning quasi-Gregorian melodies. Matsushita sets the three verses of the hymn usually set nowadays, and these also divide the composition. Each verse is introduced with the ascending pentatonic motif Ubi caritas, but the melody is transformed according to the text and expresses the immeasurable joy of the glory of God in the third verse in a brief forte outburst with leaps of a fifth, before the composition concludes with a final Ubi caritas and an Amen lost in reverie. voice range: S: c' - f'' / A1:adeg - es'' / A2: gdeg - b' / T: fdeg - f' / B1: B - des' / B2: F - a'.

Alto, Mixed choir (SATB), Piano

SKU: BA.BA11309

Composed by Camille Saint-Saens. Edited by Christina M. Stahl. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Score. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA11309. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA11309).

ISBN 9790006577705. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text Language: English.

It is a small music history sensation: Thanks to Yves Grard an unknown and unpublished manuscript penned by Camille Saint-Saëns has been unearthed in the Mdiathèque Jean Renoir in Dieppe in France.

It is the top four instrumental parts which make this manuscript something of a sensation. Placed under each other are â??Saxophone Soprano en Si bâ?, â??Saxophone Alto en Mi bâ?, â??Saxophone Tnor en Si bâ? and â??Saxophone Baryton en Mi bâ?, strings, soprano solo with chorus and organ. Musical history has hitherto credited Jean-Baptiste Singele (1812â??1875) with having written the first saxophone quartet, his opus 53, which he completed in 1857. Now this historiography clearly has to be revised. The date 1854 has been found under the first page of the treasure from Dieppe, which is pasted over and also sewn, meaning that Saint-Saënsâ?? work was written three years earlier than that of Singele.

In contrast to Singele, Saint-Saëns does not have the wind instruments taking solo parts but rather uses their tonal colour to depict textual moods and nuances. On the one hand the saxophones accompany the choral parts (certainly singable by amateurs) and support the human voices in fugal passages. On the other hand, they take the melody in the purely orchestral passages.

Saint-Sa ëns wrote the motet in the period when he had taken up his first permanent appointment as organist at the Church of Saint-Merri in Paris. He revised the work several times over the decades, changing the motifs at the beginning, correcting obvious mistakes, reworking the ending, eventually changing the instrumentation several times and even â?? probably in the final stage â?? replacing the Latin text with an English one. Today, three-and-a-half versions have been handed down, one of them stopping after just a few pages. The compositional steps have been successfully reconstructed by means of detailed detective work. Furthermore, the first saxophone version (BA 11305) and the last English piano version (BA 11309) have been edited to produce a scholarly-critical edition.

The present edition of the English version for soprano solo, choir and piano (BA 11309) serves both as a full score and as a vocal score due to the instrumentation.

About Barenreiter Urtext

What can I expect from a Barenreiter Urtext edition?< /p>

MUSICOLOGICA LLY SOUND
- A reliable musical text based on all available sources
- A description of the sources
- Information on the genesis and history of the work
- Valuable notes on performance practice
- Includes an introduction with critical commentary explaining source discrepancies and editorial decisions

... AND PRACTICAL
- Page-turns, fold-out pages, and cues where you need them
- A well-presented layout and a user-friendly format
- Excellent print quality
- Superior paper and binding

Mixed choir

SKU: FG.55011-455-5

Composed by Matthew Whittall. Score. Fennica Gehrman #55011-455-5. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-455-5).

ISBN 9790550114555.

This cycle of carols, to the poetry of Christina Rossetti, was assembled piecemeal over a number of years, gradually acquiring a larger dramatic and harmonic arch shape as new settings were added. I was particularly attracted to Rossetti's conflation of the dark, fallow winter landscape with that of the soul waiting for salvation. The cycle traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. The opening carol embodies this spirit, with passages of diffuse, roving harmony interspersed with meditative, lyrical pedals, calling out the night watch and dreaming of a far-off summer of the spirit. Earth Grown Old is a kind of double carol, setting two complete poems, their lines at first presented separately as a still, expectant chorale and a jubilant dance, then progressively interwoven toward a fervent climax before once again receding into quiet. In the bleak mid-winter, which sets a highly compressed version of Rossetti's original poem, presents an enfeebled landscape frozen in time, in dire need of deliverance. A gentle melody weaves its way through static drones, broken by an angels' chorus announcing the joy to come. Love Came Down at Christmas ends the waiting, with its gently falling, overlapping lines building to a final revelation, the mystery of Christmas at last made real.

(Dostoyno yest'). By Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943). For SATB choir (div). Choral octavo. Language: Church Slavonic. Published by Musica Russica