Leighton's setting of the Morning Canticles was commissioned in 1967 for the centenary service of the Monkton Combe School in Bath. The Venite like all three movements of the setting is scored for Unison Voices SATB Choir and Organ.Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) was a Yorkshireman and one of the most distinguished post-war composers in Britain. While he is best known for his choral works he also wrote 3 symphonies for orchestra and being a fine pianist himself also wrote regularly for the Piano. His works are often characterised by a warmth and sympathy for the ensemble he is writing for.

The Te Deum Laudamus is a single movement Choral work and was Sullivan’s last completed composition. In one movement the composer moves through all the component parts of the mass drawing them together seamlessly and expressing Sullivan’s own deeply felt faith.Composer Arthur Sullivan is known the world over for his operatic collaborations with W S Gilbert including H M S Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance among many others. But Sullivan was also a composer of many other works among them operas Orchestral works ballets and hymns and church pieces.Among his church works Sullivan is best known for his hymn Onward Christian Soldiers and the theme of that hymn isincorporated in this Te Deum. Sullivan wrote the work on request for a Thanksgiving Service held in St Paul’s Cathedral at the close of the Boer War in South Africa. It received its first performance in 1902 in the presence of King Edward VII and other members of the royal family. That the song of thanksgiving was composed nearly two years before the end of the war perhaps demonstrated Sullivan’s patriotism.

John Rutter's Canticle Of Thanksgiving for SATB choir and Organ.This original anthem with words and music by John Rutter is warm and tender. The musical setting is simple drawing attention to the text which as the title suggests gives thanks to God. This makes the anthem particularly suited to Harvest and Thanksgiving services.

An anthem for SSATTB Choir with Organ accompaniment. Suitable for Harvest Thanksgiving or general use.

Anthem for SATB (unaccompanied) commissioned by Christ's Hospital Horsham for a service of thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey on October 7 1966.

This is heartfelt music pure and simple - just the thing to lift voices in the spirit of Thanksgiving for SATB chorus.

Unison voice and/or SATB chorus and organ. Commissioned for the Centenary Thanksgiving Service of Monkton Combe School.

This work written for AAB soli SATB chorus and orchestra was first performed at the thanksgiving for the Treaty of Utrecht held in St Paul's Cathedral London on 7th July 1713. Together with Te Deum it was quickly established in standard use on such occasions as the Festivals of the Sons of the Clergy.This vocal score edited by Watkins Shaw includes an organ arrangement of Handel's instrumental score.