The New Novello Anthem Book: SATB: Vocal Score

Forty-one classic and modern anthems for the church year. This anthology draws on over 180 years of publishing to provide an invaluable resource for parish and cathedral choirs. The selection features many of the leading sacred composers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All the anthems are for SATB the majority with organ and some unaccompanied. There is a diversity of style and difficulty. Pieces for every season of the church year and every church occasion are included.

The Souls Of The Righteous is an anthem for SATB choir with an Organ reduction provided for rehearsal purposes. It takes its text from the Old Testament book of Wisdom. Sir George Elvey (1816-1893) was a British organist and composer. He was a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral and New College Oxford before studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Such was his skill he became Organist at St George’s Chapel Windsor at the age of just nineteen having been offered the post in preference to far more experienced candidates such as Samuel Wesley. He wrote prolifically for the Chapel creating many works that were only performed once andhave now been lost. Best remembered are his hymn tunes oratorios and anthems.

The Dutch Carol with words taken from the Cowley Carol Book arranged as an anthem for SATB Choir and Organ.

I will greatly rejoice is an anthem for harvest first published in 1913. It is scored for SATB chorus with Organ accompaniment and sets a passage from the book of Isaiah which describes how the prophet rejoices in a successful harvest.Edward Bairstow (1874-1946) was a British composer organist and conductor. He studied under Frederick Bridge at Westminster Abbey and later became Organist at York Minster and Professor of Music at the University of Durham. He is best remembered for his settings of the Anglican liturgy as well as anthems such as Blessed City Heavenly Salem and Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence.

Novello New Choral Series-In Out of the south cometh the whirlwind chant-like melodies and colourful organ writing combine to explore the relationship between God and the natural world. Awarded a 2011 King James Bible Composition Award the work uses rich language from the Book of Job to chart a trajectory from doubt toward belief. At the opening lyrical melodies build from a single pitch to proclaim the majesty of the ?wondrous works of God.? But doubt painted with nervous lines in the altos and basses soon invades only to be diffused by a beautiful voice from beyond a treble solo. Their faith restored the choir joyfully celebrates God?s power and mystery and the anthem ends inquiet contemplation.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.Zachary Wadsworth (b.1983) is a prizewinning young composer whose works have been hailed as ?astonishingly confident? and ?mesmerizing? (News & Observer). His song cycle Pictures of the Floating World was premiered at the Lincoln Center and his opera Venus and Adonis was recently staged by the Boston Metro Opera. His works have been published by E.C. Schirmer and Alliance Music recorded on Gothic Records and broadcast on NPR?s Performance Today and BBC Radio?s The Choir. A winner of the 2011 King James Bible Composition Awards Zachary has also received prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ASCAP and the Lotte Lehmann Foundation. A native of Richmond Virginia he currently lives in Calgary Alberta.'Zachary Wadsworth's Out of the South Cometh the Whirlwind is a highly imaginative and compelling

For Mixed-Voice Choirs-A useful new resource for choirs the New Novello Book Of Short & Easy Anthems For Mixed-Voice Choirs is perfect for groups of all sizes and abilities.The pieces in this exciting collection have been carefully chosen to offer a selection of interesting contemporary works alongside older and more well-known anthems. It is recognised that many choirs have limited rehearsal time and frequently limited vocal resources. This collection aims to provide works that are easily and quickly learnable with few splits in voice parts. In addition many of the pieces in the New Novello Book Of Short & Easy Anthems For Mixed-VoiceChoirs can be adapted to work as unison settings with accompaniment or in other flexible forms.The New Novello Book Of Short & Easy Anthems For Mixed-Voice Choirs is arranged for SATB Choir with Organ accompaniment.In the January 2015 edition of the Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians Jason Overall writes that '[t]he wealth of new music of modest technical difficulty makes this an interesting and useful collection for nearly every choir.'In the September 2015 issue of the Organists' Review Michael Bell calls this a 'welcome and stimulating publication' suggesting that it provides a counter to claims that 'choir repertoires include little seriously modern music.'

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.