Anthems and Hymns for Lent Holy Week and Eastertide for mixed-voiced choirs-The Novello Book Of Music For Lent & Easter is an exciting collection of Lent and Easter music for mixed-voice choirs from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. A book of anthems hymn arrangements and other pieces covering the period from Ash Wednesday to Easter including music for Palm Sunday Holy Week Maundy Thursday Good Friday and Easter Day. This book is in the same style as the successful Noel! series with the same balance of new and familiar pieces to ensure it appeals to the greatest possible choral market. Mixed-voice choirs of all levels will enjoy these new arrangements of favouriteHymns as well as stimulating original works for the Easter season.

This is part of a series of short volumes each devoted to a single composer or appropriate group of composers thoroughly exploring the unlimited resources of Renaissance sacred polyphony.

Novello New Choral Series-Why O Lord do you stand far off? was written in memory of the victims of the London bombings on 7 July 2005 questions the presence of God in times of human disaster particularly when committed by man upon his fellow man. The piece's focus lies in the two rhetorical questions first sung by the female voices at the beginning. This opening three note motif returns frequently throughout the work forever challenging the whereabouts of God's watchful eye. This commemorative setting of Psalm 10 was recorded by the Exeter College Chapel Choir in 2006.The Novello New Choral Series is an inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporarycomposers offering pieces for all types of choirs including sacred and secular works from simple four-part settings to more expansive yet accessible repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. This collection is perfect for choirs looking to broaden their repertoire and explore some of the best new music around.Jonathan bridcut (b.1984) has written a broad range of works for choir and orchestra that have been performed throughout the UK and europe. Jonathan was a treble at Winchester College where he was head Quirister in 1998 before Moving on to Radley College as top music scholar. He developed his interest in composition at Oxford University while studying at Exeter College as both an academic and choral Scholar. His first set of Evening Canticles was premiered in 2004 and a year later a second was performed in St Paul’s Cathedral. Recent highlights include performances at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre Tewkesbury Abbey St James’s Piccadilly and at the Lausanne Summer Festival by choirs and orchestras including Schola Cantorum of Oxford Commotio and The Oxford Spezzati. Future engagements include performances by the Oxford Spezzati and Laudate in London Lyon and Chester (where his latest choral commission will be premiered in September 2011). Jonathan graduated from Oxford in 2006 with a BA in Modern

aus The Strathclyde Motets-The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. The Latin text is taken from the Graduale Romanum.The pieces are suitable for intermediate standard choirs. Dominus dabit is a communion motet for the first Sunday in Advent (Psalm 84: 13).

With a text adapted from a traditional Czech carol this tender work alternates between a gentle 4/4 and more spirited 6/8. The well-crafted vocal parts are quite accessible making this selection especially good for developing choirs or smaller ensembles. Available separately: SATB SAB SSA. Duration: ca. 2:30.

This collection of thirty-five contemporary arrangements of well known Spirituals by Moses Hogan. Includes 'Abide with me' The Battle of Jericho' and 'Steal Away'.

The Austrian violinist Jacob Dont (1815-1888) was a highly-respected composer and pedagogue whose compositions were primarily written for educational purposes. Of his 50+ works his 24 Studies and Caprices (Op. 35) are probably the best known and are often considered to be some of the most important and most technically advanced pieces available for Violin study. All the exercises focus on different aspects of technique including arpeggios double stops dexterity change of position legato change of string types of bowing trills and appoggiaturas. A truly indispensable work for any Violin student or teacher.

William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) was an English renaissance composer who wrote several well-known works in both the Catholic and Anglican traditions many of which are still highly popular today. He studied under ThomasTallis at the Chapel Royal before becoming organist and master of the Choristers at Lincoln. He later returned to the Chapel Royal as Gentleman and Organist. Ave Verum (?Hail True Body?) is a hymn to theBlessed Sacrament for SATB choir. This edition is printed with the original Latin text and a keyboard reduction for rehearsal or accompaniment. Ideal as a short anthem for a choir of any size.

Scottish song (using words by Robert Burns) arranged for unaccompanied by Donald Cashmore. With Piano part for rehearsal only.

Sweet was the song was composed in 2003 as a commission from the Hampstead Chamber Choir and their then director Eamonn Dougan. It is a short and simple SATB setting of a familiar Christmas text.The Novello New Choral Series is an inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers offering pieces for all types of choirs including sacred and secular works from simple four-part settings to more expansive yet accessible repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. This collection is perfect for choirs looking to broaden their repertoire and explore some of the best new music around.Thomas Hyde(b.1978) studied at Oxford University where he gained a doctorate in composition in 2008 and the Royal Academy of Music. His teachers have included David Matthews Simon Bainbridge Peter Maxwell Davies and Robert Saxton. In October 2008 he was appointed Lecturer in Music at Worcester College Oxford and since September 2009 has been visiting lecturer in composition at City University London. Prizes include finalist in English National Opera’s young composer festival ‘New Visions New Voices’ (1992) the National School Band Association Prize (1993) and a Wingate Scholarship (2004-5). His music is performed regularly in Britain at festivals including Spitalfields City of London Presteigne Deal and Little Missenden as well as abroad and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Recent works have included a string quartet for the Allegri Quartet and the one-man opera That Man Stephen Ward for the Hampstead & Highgate Festival.

Novello New Choral Series- La Ballade de Jésus Christ is an arrangement of a French carol from the seventeeth century or earlier. The tune is well known as the hymn Let all mortal flesh keep silence from The English Hymnal and this arrangement was commissioned in 2007 by the Oxford choir Sospiri for their CD of Christmas music Videte Miraculum. The text a miniature morality tale has a simple almost childlike quality to it and this is reflected in the shimmering harmonies and soft fleeting dissonances presenting the story as a bitter-sweet fairy tale.The Novello New Choral Series is an inspiring selection of new works from a range ofcontemporary composers offering pieces for all types of choirs including sacred and secular works from simple four-part settings to more expansive yet accessible repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. This collection is perfect for choirs looking to broaden their repertoire and explore some of the best new music around.Born in 1963 John Duggan was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and studied music at Oxford. Whilst still a boy he dreamed of writing in the choral tradition of Victoria Tallis and Palestrina. His vocal music has delighted both singers and audiences across Europe and the USA. He has written for a number of choirs including Commotio Westminster Cathedral Choir the Hildegard Choir and Sospiri and has received commissions from the Edington Music Festival Crossover Intergenerational Dance Group Oxford Youth Dance and The Oxford-Grenoble Association. He composers regularly for film and dance and performs as a singerand choral director whilst working as a recording engineer and producer.

O that we were there! is a text taken from the Christmas hymn In Dulci Jubilo. It expresses a longing to be present at the Incarnation of Christ but it also conveys alonging to be out of the world oftime and space and in an eternal world.Composed in 2012 in memory of Blossom Barrow this SATB version was first performed at the memorial service for Annabel Freyberg mother of Blossom Barrow at St Mary Abbots theparish church of Kensington on 26th February 2014. The performance was given by the choir of St Mary Abbotsconducted by the Director of Music Professor Mark Uglow.