Anthems Old And New - SA Men Volume 2: Organ: Vocal Score

32 Carols and Anthems for Choir-On Christmas Night is a collection of 32 carols and Christmas anthems composed or arranged exclusively by living composers. Written for SATB choir either with organ accompaniment or a cappella the volume provides a rich and varied collection of music for carol concerts and Christmas services. All the pieces in the collection are also available separately.

A two-volume collection of short anthems from the Novello Choral Programme representing five hundred years of church music all suitable for SATB chorus with Organ.Familiar and long-established works are represented alongside many lesser-known and more recent works by composers such as Douglas Guest Philip Rose and Ralph Allwood. Many of the pieces are ideal as Introits and Anthems for general church use whilst other have a more specific intended function within the liturgical calendar. However all are well suited to both devotional and concert performance.The works here are short ranging from straight-forward to technically challenging and more exciting. As a whole the collection features an overwhelming number of choices for choirs of all different sizes and abilities.

100 settings for the smaller parish choir-This fine new collection continues Kevin Mayhew’s commitment to providing popular anthems arranged for the smaller parish choir.Following the ground-breaking style of Volume 1 it provides 100 settingsselected by Colin Mawby for sopranos and altos with one part for the men.

A special lay-flat comb bound edition. Selected and edited by Barry Rose Sing Precious Music is a superb collection of nine anthems written between the 1960s and today one newly published in this volume: all by noteworthy composers if choral works all memorable suitable for concert as well as liturgical use and all within the capabilities of the modern mixed choir large or small. A Choral Advisor to Novello since 1999 Barry Rose has been associated with many forms of choral music for over sixty years. The Novello Choral Programme is the creation of a panel of advisers preeminent in the British music scene. The aim is to publishessential editions from the best of the wealth of existing choral music ancient and modern while widening the repertoire with exciting new composers and new trends in music making.

Tudor and Stuart monarchs reigned during a period of political and ecclesiastical turmoil out of which occurred profound developments in musical style.Tudor Anthems (the term loosely applied to cover the years 1520 to 1640) anthologises some of the finest English musical works of that era. It includes sacred works of various lengths and standards of difficulty for mixed voice choir accompanied and unaccompanied by an array of composers including Byrd Dering Gibbons Morley Mundy Parsons Philips Smith Taverner and Tomkins.A comprehensive collection and indispensable resource for any choir's library prepared in an easilyunderstood performing edition by Lionel Pike.'This is an excellent book. It offers variety the familiar and the less so all levels of difficulty and excellent value. Choirs who invest in a set could cover this aspect of their repertoire for years to come.'Andrew Gant (Choir & Organ - March/April 2011) 'A new Tudor anthem anthology will inevitably invite comparison with the popular Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems but Lionel Pike's collection largely avoids overlap with the OUP book and its contents certainly do not disappoint.' Matthew O'Donovan (Early Music Today - March/May 2011)'For many choirs and choral societies the Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems has been a standard source for this wonderful repertoire since it was first published in 1978. This new edition from Novello is now a serious competitor (why have we had to wait so long!). At almost the same price as the OUP volume and with 50 anthems (OUP had 34) this anthology is remarkable value for money. Before considering the contents it is worth mentioning its weight. My choir complains at holding the New Church Anthem Book and this is the same weight as the NCAB paperback (i.e. over a kilogram) and almost A4 in size. Lionel Pike

Edited by Peter HortonThis volume contains The Wilderness and Ascribe unto the Lord in versions for chorus and organ and chorus and orchestra. They form an unequalled testament to Wesley's genius as a choral composer who excelled in extending the limits of the multi-movement anthem. Orchestral material is available for rental. First published in 1993.