Coventry Child: SSA: Vocal Score

Two treasured Christmas melodies are artfully paired in this setting of What Child Is This and The Coventry Carol. Perform it a cappella or accompanied with piano and optional bass and obbligato melodic instrument or guitar.Available separately: SATB SAB SSA ShowTrax CD. Duration: ca. 2:30.

Joy to the World! is a delightful collection of 21 Christmas carols and songs, arranged by master choral director and composer Gwyn Arch. This collection of two-part arrangements is aimed to bridge the gap between simple unison settings and those for three-part SSA choirs. The parts are carefully designed to be easily singable by younger voices, and to encourage singers to grow in confidence as they learn these engaging pieces.

Morton Gould's Serenade Of Carols for SATB choir with SATB soloists and Orchestra. Reduction for Piano 4 hands.Contents:I. We Three Kings The Babe Of Bethlehem Rocking Greensleeves(3:00)II. Boar's Head Carol Patapan Carol of Service (3:00)III. Come Love We God! Coventry Carol The Holly And The Ivy (4:00)IV. Irish Carol God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Wassail Song My Dancing Day(3:30)Born in Richmond Hill New York on 10 December 1913 Morton Gould was recognised early on as a child prodigy with the ability to improvise and compose. At the age of six he had his first compositionpublished. He studied at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School) but his most important teachers were Abby Whiteside (Piano) and Vincent Jones (composition).Gould enjoyed an illustrious career. Inaddition to gaining a Pulitzer Prize for 'Stringmusic' he was Musical America's 1994 Composer-of-the-Year and recieved a Kennedy Center Honor in recognition of lifetime contributions to American culture.A long-time memberof the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers Gould was elected president of ASCAP in 1986 a post he held until 1994. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Healso served on the board of the American Symphony Orchestra League and on the National Endowment for the Arts music panel.

A Carol Symphony Hely-Hutchinson’s best-known work is composed in four movements. The first Adeste Fideles is arranged in the form of a Bach Chorale with brass taking the Vocal lines and Strings skittering underneath. The second movement gives God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’s minor tonalities a Russian feel. The third uses the Coventry Carol and The First Nowell as its base with particularly haunting harp theme. In the final movement Here We Come A-Wassailling appears as well as a fugal rendering of Adeste Fideles. Victor Hely-Hutchinson was a child prodigy who went on to have a successful career as a conductor pianist and accompanist as well as a composer and wasmostly known for his works on the theme of Christmas melodies and his settings of children’s nursery rhymes.

Fifty Christmas Carols-The volumes of Carols For Choirs have established themselves as the quintessential carol books for carol-singers around the world.Carols For Choirs 1 includes 50 varied carols for every occasion including newly-arranged classics as well as original compositions written specially for this compilation.

A superb collection of over 70 favourite Christmas carols and songs arranged for Piano, with lyrics and Guitar chord symbols, guaranteed to get you in the festive mood! Including popular songs such as A Spaceman Came Travelling and Happy Xmas (War Is Over), as well as traditional carols, such as Away In A Manger and Once In Royal David's City. / Célébrations / Partition /