Arranged by Tom Gerou. For Piano. Book; Method/Instruction; Piano - Alfred's Basic Piano Course. Alfred's Basic Piano Library. Children; Contemporary Christian. 24 pages. Published by Alfred Music

(B-flat Edition). By Various. By Various. For Bb Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 512 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

(Bass Clef Edition). By Various. By Various. For Bass Clef Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 464 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

(E-flat Edition). By Various. By Various. For Eb Instruments. Fake Book. Softcover. 464 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Performed by Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads. For guitar and voice. Format: guitar tablature songbook. With guitar tablature, standard notation, vocal melody, lyrics, chord names, guitar notation legend, introductory text and black and white photos. Metal and hard rock. 128 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Cherry Lane Music.

For voice and C instrument. Format: fakebook. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord chart. Gospel and worship. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 295 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

(C Edition). By Various. By Various. Fake Book. Softcover. 464 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Composed by Various. Easy Piano Songbook. TV, Movies, Video Games, Children. Softcover. 160 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

SATB Choir

SKU: BT.MUSM570200641

Composed by Anne Boyd. Classical. Vocal Score. 64 pages. University of York Music Press #MUSM570200641. Published by University of York Music Press (BT.MUSM570200641).

English.

Jesus Reassures His Mother is a setting of medieval lyric poetry written anonymously in the 14th century. The poet recounts a vision of the young Mary rocking the infant Christ to sleep. The child requests his mother to sing a lullaby but, alas, knowing her child’s fate she is too sad to sing. Jesus tells her that all mothers worry about their children’s futures and insists that she should sing nevertheless. Mary recounts the visit of Gabriel and the events of Christ’s birth but reflects how sad it is to have delivered a child to such a fate. Jesus reassures his mother that he will be with his father in heaven where Mary will come to join Him at the end of time, there to livein eternal bliss. At this point Mary is persuaded by and echoes her child’s reassuring words, and she is joined in this by the choir (now representing us all). The vision fades away in the voice of the narrator whose loneliness and longing return. We learn that it is Christmas Day. This setting grows from the visionary mystical world inhabited by Julian of Norwich whose Revelations of Divine Love provided the inspiration for a work Anne Boyd composed in 1994. The medium has been expanded from the Song Company’s six solo voices used in the Revelations to the double motet choir of the Sydney Philharmonia who commissioned this work for their 75th anniversary. The parts of the infant Jesus, Mary, the Narrator and the angel Gabriel are taken by choir soloists: soprano, alto, tenor and bass. The work is situated in the context of Boyd ’s personal musical aesthetic which she describes as the intersection of Christian Love with Buddhist silence.