Sussex Carol: SSA: Vocal Score

Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy is a sequence of 12 uplifting folk-inspired Christmas songs exploring both sacred and secular aspects of the festive season.Including such favourites as The Sussex Carol Gaudete and The holly and the ivy Wassail! continues the highly popular series by Alexander L?Estrange of 40-minute choral works for SATB unison children?s choir and jazz quintet. This vocal score is arranged with a Piano reduction part.

English Christmas song-A delightful Christmas sequence of three traditional English carols (Sussex Carol Lute Book Lullaby and Gloucestershire Wassail for choir and harp (or piano) accompaniment. An ideal accompaniment piece to Britten's A Ceremony of Carols for choral societies school and church choirs.

Both a dedicated carol singer and an authority on the history of English music Nicholas Temperley here offers a unique book of 37 carols dating from the fifteenth century to the present.For over fifty years he has sung edited and composed carols each Christmas and in Christmas is Coming the fruit of his enthusiasm is combined with his wealth of knowledge to produce an outstanding and original new collection. As John Rutter observes in his Foreword the book does not pointlessly duplicate what can be found in many other carol books but has a personality and purpose of its own.Twenty-two fresh and practical arrangements include carols from Austria France Germany Mexico Poland and the USA alongside music both rare and familiar from the rich heritage of the English carol tradition. As well as eight of his personal favourites from J. S. Bach to Charles Ives the author includes seven new compositions of his own settings of medieval and traditional texts that reveal his skill as a choral composer whose command of style ranges from the humorous to the profound.In addition to sample programmes and translations there are invaluable notes on the performance and history of individual items plus an historical summary of the genre as a whole: everything in fact to make Christmas is Coming an indispensable companion for singers who wish to enrich the seasonal repertoire for concerts churches and traditional Yuletide carolling.