SKU: WD.080689497773
UPC: 080689497773.
From the creative team that brought you the best-selling musical, Joy, Unspeakable Joy!... Kenna Turner West, Dale Mathews and Steve W. Mauldin...comes another uplifting, worshipful and inspiring seasonal musical for your Christmas choir. O Night Divine compels the listener to celebrate the joyful, glorious birth of our Lord and Savior. It encourages us to offer our highest praise to the One known by such magnificent names as Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, and Everlasting Father. And it invites us to come to the manger, bow down, and worship the King of Kings. All of the songs are woven together with threads of a rich narration and the colorful, many-faceted arrangements and orchestrations of Steve W. Mauldin. O Night Divine, the perfect musical for your choir this Christmas!O Night Divine features inspired, new Christmas songs from Kenna West, threaded together by three powerful, well-known songs, such asA Christmas Alleluia, made popular by Chris Tomlin; Ring the Bells, made popular by artists Travis Cottrell and Big Daddy Weave; and Hope Was Born This Night, popularized by Sidewalk Prophets. All of the songs are woven together with threads of a rich narration and the colorful, many-faceted arrangements and orchestrations of Steve W. Mauldin. O Night Divine, the perfect musical for your choir this Christmas!Song Titles: Ring the Bells * Gloria (Emmanuel has Come) * Carol Hymn Medley (Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus with O Come, O Come, Emmanuel) * The Time has Come * Have You Heard the News * A Christmas Alleluia * O Night Divine with A Christmas Alleluia * Finale with Hope Was Born This Night and Ring the Bells (Reprise).
SKU: WD.080689614392
UPC: 080689614392.
SKU: WD.080689850721
UPC: 080689850721.
SKU: MN.50-6129
UPC: 688670561290. English.
This text in the Sacred Harp tradition was first published in 1891, and is filled with enthusiasm for singing and the joy of faith. The musical setting is new, but hearkens back to early American shape-note singing. The harmonies are straightforward, and the rhythmic piano accompaniment serves to maintain the energy of the message. Duration:3:15.
SKU: GI.G-8346
UPC: 785147834601. English. Text Source: Revised Order of Mass 2010, Lectionary for Mass, entrance song by Rodrick Bell, 1961-1994. Text by Roderick Bell.
For SATB, cantor, piano, and assembly this new Mass by Kenneth Louis is exactly the kind of uplifting gospel praise that adds a festive dimension to your worship celebrations. Quick, syncopated rhythms and joyful melodies infused throughout capture both the ear and the heart inviting your assembly to lift their voices in glory.
SKU: HL.48021234
ISBN 9781458423542. UPC: 884088642037. 6.75x10.5 inches.
Text: in Latin compiled from the charter of the University, and from older orations in praise of Basle by Bernhard Wyss.Publisher: Boosey & HawkesDifficulty level: 4 (for chorus)Britten's genius lifts this work above being just a worthy celebration of the 500th anniversary of the foundation of Basle University. It is tongue-in-cheek and mockingly non-academic while referring all the time to academic musical forms and formulae. It is written in two parts (everything is in the statutory Latin including the titles of the parts - Pars I and Pars II). The titles of the movements show Britten's intention to show off a wide variety of techniques. Here are some examples: Chorale/Alla Rovescio (the theme is given and responded to with the same melody upside down)/Recitativo/Tema seriale con fuga/Canone ed ostinato. There is a good deal of humour here.There are seven movements in Pars I and six in Pars II. The tenor soloist is given three florid recitatives, accompanied only by a piano, which act as bridges between other orchestrally accompanied movements. Of these the most noteworthy are the Arioso con canto popolare for soprano solo with tenors and basses who hum a student song; another terrific Britten scherzo; and a wonderfully raucous final pair of movements (Canon ed ostinato and Corale con canto) where Britten seems to be aping the Vivat Regina! cries in Parry's I was glad or encouraging the kind of noisy 'I'm from the best university' kind of student touchline shout. This has outrageously high notes for the tenors (top B) which further endorse this feeling. There are real echoes of the Spring Symphony (see separate entry) final movement here which are further underlined by the last section of the Cantata which brings in the bells, piano, huge percussion and the inevitable chorale in which the choir sings 'that a free academy may thrive in a free community, for ever the ornament and treasure of illustrious Basle'.This may not be Britten at his most soul-searching but, as always, there is plenty here to enjoy, especially if the work is not taken too seriously. It is a celebratory, occasional piece and it could be well taken up by other academic establishments celebrating big anniversaries. The chorus parts are not very difficult, though they do present challenges for the choir - not least in having tenors capable of those very high notes at the end. The Tema seriale con fuga is sinewy and needs careful tuning. It also has the subject regularly given upside down after its initial sounding by the basses. All good fun.Duration: 21 minutesPaul Spicer, Lichfield, 2011.
SKU: ST.CN17P
ISBN 9790220224744.
This setting of Videntes stellam aims to explore the extremes of emotion surrounding the revelation of Christ. The piece begins by depicting the vision of the star and the journey of the Kings, utilising a bright harmonic language in the organ and emphatic, cascading outbursts of praise from the choir, periodically interrupted by more reflective iterations of the text. Following a final declaration of exaltation and joy, the piece concludes with a peaceful and reverential picture of the giving of gifts to the infant Jesus, fading away as the organ takes up the original theme under the final statement of '... myrrham' from the choir. Suitable for evensongs or concerts throughout the whole of the Advent, Christmas and Epiphany seasons. Videntes stellam was the 2013 winner of the New Music for St Paul's Cathedral Composition Competition.
SKU: LP.765762131422
UPC: 765762131422.
Talented newcomers Shelly Johnson and Jayme Thompson teamed up with the incomparable Russell Mauldin to bring you this joyful and effervescent vocal offering. Fresh singable lyrics and an easy-to-learn melody are wrapped in Mauldin's accessible harmonies lush orchestration and pulsating rhythms to present an utterly captivating new song that choirs praise teams and congregations will be singing for years to come. A must-have for your choral library!
SKU: LP.765762178908
UPC: 765762178908.
SKU: HL.35003554
UPC: 747510051756. 7x10.5 inches.
A rhythmic setting of the resurrection story, Stan Pethel's driving and energetic Christ is Risen, Sing Hallelujah! is a marvelous “jump start” for your early service. Excitement and electricity fill the air from the first chord to the final “Hallelujah,” and that sense of uncontainable joy will linger long after the song has ended. Particularly suited for contemporary worship, this intoxicating message of resurrection praise is easily approachable by small or large, youth or adult mixed ensembles. The verses are generally unison, bursting into parts on the chorus, “Christ is risen, sing hallelujah!” Great joy for Easter morning!
SKU: LP.765762180109
UPC: 765762180109.
Take the genius of songwriters Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman add a master arranger and orchestrator like Dave Williamson and the result is an absolute masterpiece! Our God is everything you have come to enjoy and expect from such creative talent including an infectous melody accessible vocal harmonies and glorious instrumentals. Perfect for praise teams and choirs alike and a powerful reminder of a basic truth: ...If our God is for us then who can ever stop us?.
SKU: LP.765762133020
UPC: 765762133020.
SKU: GI.G-9513
UPC: 785147951308. English. Text Source: Tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878, alt.; Translation: Catherine Winkworth. Text by Michael Weisse.
Alleluia! Wake the hearts and minds of each singer and listener with this Eastertide song in praise of Christ. The arrangement provides a rousing addition to your Sunday celebrations. Joyful! The percussion part is for tambourine and hand drum.
