PARTITIONS GRATUITES : HAUTBOIS, VIOLON, ALTO, VIOLONCELLE
- Come Down

Composed by Tim Knight (1959-). For unison voices with descant, organ. Easy anthem for Confirmation or Pentecost. Pentecost, Confirmation, Ordination. Octavo. Published by CanticaNOVA Publications

SATB and Piano Jazz Ensemble Optional Choral; Piano Accompaniment (SATB with Piano)

SKU: HL.48024900

Come Down, O Love Divine; God Is Love/Love Divine; Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence. Composed by Ralph Vaughan-Williams. Arranged by Will Todd. BH Large Choral. Classical, Jazz. Octavo. 28 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060136412. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024900).

ISBN 9781784545475. UPC: 840126930696. 7.25x10.5x0.108 inches.

These jazz arrangements of well-known hymns were written for Andrew Earis and choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London for various services and BBC broadcasts from that church. The setting of “Come down, O Love divine” supplies some new harmonic moves to Vaughan Williams' lovely tune “Down Ampney”, gradually adding vocal harmony through the verses, with a short descant section in the final verse. The compound-time arrangement of “God Is Love,” which can also be sung to the supplied words of Charles Wesley's hymn “Love Divine,” again adds more of Todd's iconic jazz harmonies and textures in the vocal parts with each successive verse. The setting of “Let all mortal flesh keep silence” is structured to gradually build layers over the moody piano chords and the pedal harmony. At the end the music builds to a large climax for the text “Lord most high”. The hymns can be performed using the supplied piano part or using the chord symbols above. Double bass may also be used in addition to piano, again following the supplied chord symbols, and parts for optional jazz ensemble are available. Performers of these hymns should feel free to include the congregation or audience in imaginative ways.

SKU: WD.080689635236

Choral. Sacred Anthem, Christmas. Octavo. Word Music #080689635236. Published by Word Music (WD.080689635236).

UPC: 080689635236.

Arran ged by Daniel Semsen, The Moment (Heaven’s Come Down) will have your choir celebrating all the things that happened the very moment Christ was born. Incorporating lyrics from Go, Tell It on the Mountain, this upbeat anthem is a celebration of the skies that opened, the angels that proclaimed, and the hope that was finally found, all in one single moment…when Heaven came down.

SATB choir and Piano - Intermediate

SKU: MN.50-4844

Composed by Karen Marrolli and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Pentecost. MorningStar Music Publishers #50-4844. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.50-4844).

UPC: 688670548444. English.

A gentle, flowing setting of an original text that quotes from Come, Down O Love Divine and Vaughan Williams' lovely tune DOWN AMPNEY.

SATB choir, a cappella - Easy/Medium

SKU: PL.9533

Composed by Sam Batt Owens. Parish. Choral, Advent. Octavo. Paraclete Press #9533. Published by Paraclete Press (PL.9533).

Dr. Owen's adaptation of Psalm 72 alternates between a direct prayer to God of Come, O come down and various verses of the psalm. The address always appears in a gentle, rocking rhythmic motion while the verse settings change in accordance with the text. A combination of rich vocal timbres and a moderately slow tempo is used to give a sense of meditation to this Advent anthem.

By Sir William Henry Harris. For SATB Choir. Choral, 20th Century. Sheet Music. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.