Franz Joseph Haydn: O Praise the Lord with Heart and Voice: SATB: Vocal Score

Diane Bish is a renowned organist and her compositions reflect her keyboard excellence. The choral music by Franz Joseph Haydn (from “Creation”) is firm and fulfilling but it is the organ part that exalts it tofestival status. A real crowd pleaser in worship or concert it is also an august anthem of praise to God.

A great way to introduce the classical style to smaller ensembles! Hal Hopson has married two wonderful melodies to form an original anthem. Borrowing from the chorus of “The Heavens Are Telling” from Haydn'sCreation and the nineteenth-century hymn tune “Sagina ” Hopson has penned a spirited song of praise for the Creator proclaimed by creation itself. Arranged for two-part mixed voices with an accessible keyboardaccompaniment “The Spacious Firmament on High” can be learned with a minimal amount of rehearsal and is the perfect choice for summer vacation or “emergency” Sundays when the choir loft may not be full. Amust for every choral library for times when an anthem of praise and thanksgiving is needed any time of the year.

Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year. A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selection of movements from the Mass can be used to enrich the music of the liturgy in services. Many of the works in Sing, Choirs! are presented in their original form, such as Bruckner's Locus Iste and Mozart's Laudate Dominum . Others are arrangements, adaptations or longer pieces, abridged to bring them into the scope of a useable anthem, including choral arrangements of Handel's Largo , the Ave Marias by Schubert and by Bach and Gounod, and Franck's Panis Angelicus amongst many others. This collection has practicability as a priority. The Organ parts can be played on either the Piano or the Keyboard. Much of the music in Sing, Choirs! will be suitable for special occasions, making this an indispensable volume for choirs singing at weekly church services, weddings, funerals and in the concert hall. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue