Adam Lay Ybounden

Thea Musgrave's arrangement of the Anonymous 15th century text Adam Lay YBounden is scored for Children's Voices and Piano a performance of which lasts around 2 minutes.

The 15th century text Adam Lay Ybounden has here been set for SSA choir with Piano accompaniment by Michael Hurd. Originally published in Merrily on High (NOV032121).

Matthew Martin's setting of Adam Lay Ybounden was first performed by the Choir of Westminster Cathedral at St. George's Hanover Sqaure London on December 19th 2006.  You can purchase the sheet music arranged for Mixed Voices and Piano Accompaniment released as part of the Faber Choral Signature Series.  Matthew Martin was educated at Magdalen College Oxford and at the Royal Academy of Music London. He subsequently held positions at New College Oxford and Canterbury Cathedral before moving to Westminster Cathedral as Assistant Master of Music in 2004. He is an active composer organ recitalist improviser and conductor. Recent commissions have come from The Cardinall's Musick Westminster Abbey Westminster Cathedral and St. Paul's Cathedral. 

Carol Collection-Carols for Everyone is a brand new collection of seven festive pieces written specifically for both adult and children's voices to sing together. Making Music commissioned Carols for Everyone to help fill the gap in choral repertoire for combined adult and children's voices and in doing so bring more people and communities together to make music.The collection funded by the Carnegie UK Trust and published by Novello includes six arrangements of well-known carols and six arrangements of well-known carols from Silent Night and Adam lay ybounden to The angel Gabriel and Rudolph the red-nosedreindeer and an original piece by Paul Mealor. Every piece can be performed by SATB adult choir and children or by children with piano accompaniment alone making this group of pieces flexible and approachable for all.   According to a review in Sunday by Sunday from the Royal School of Church Music 'the arrangement of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer will bring the house down.'

The Oxford Book of Flexible Carols is the perfect resource for choirs of all types and sizes. Each piece is presented with flexible scoring options clearly explained throughout enabling performance by various combinations of singers. With carols for Advent Christmas New Year and Epiphany and a fabulous range of accessible quality material this is a must-have collection for all choirs at Christmas. 56 flexibly scored carols Suitable for mixed choirs upper-voice choirs choirs with few men unison choirs small choirs and all other groups New flexible arrangements of traditional carols and modern favourites Brandnew carols written specially for the collection Variety of composers including Kerry Andrew Malcolm Archer Alan Bullard Bob Chilcott Stephen Cleobury Cecilia McDowall John Rutter Mack Wilberg and David Willcocks Wide range of material from Medieval to the present day and including wassails gallery carols world carols and spirituals Accessible keyboard accompaniments suitable for Organ (with or without pedals) or Piano

Noel! is an exciting collection for mixed voice choirs, selected and edited by David Hill. The contents range from the Renaissance to the present: the polyphony of Victoria and Byrd, via Bach, familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Judith Bingham, John Tavener and Judith Weir. Mixed voice choirs of all levels will find here new arrangements of favourite carols as well as stimulating works for the Christmas season, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. / Choeur SATB

This fresh setting of a well-known 15th century lyric works well for mixed choirs in school and church settings with its easy melodic and harmonic lines limited ranges and accessible text and accompaniment.