Hinshaw Music

Global music has become quite popular amongst choirs the world round today. Try this rhythmic setting of a Bulgarian Christmas song with your high school, college/university, or community organization...

The text/music combination found in this work is highly successful. The beautiful melody and classic part writing combined with an engaging text produce a lovely anthem for Christmas or epiphany. Work...

Orlando Gibbons was a master of the verse anthem during the English renaissance. Here, David Giardiniere gives us a practical edition of the outstanding work. Try it during Advent or for Christmas.

This spiritual for Epiphany or Christmas is from the Andre Thomas Choral Series. The composer, Nathan Garris, cleverly sets the work for mixed voices with soprano and tenor solos and piano, a great ch...

Jay Althouse is a melodic master. This is a wonderful piece to help your choir learn how to develop four-measure phrase, suitable for your next Christmas Eve service.

From the Accent On Youth Series. An easy introduction to counterpoint, with emphasis on good diction, each phrase may be done by a section, but it sounds better with four groups of mixed voices.

This Christina Rossetti text has been set many times-but this SAB setting with keyboard and optional handbells is special indeed. Allen Pote is a master with simple melody, understands the voices of a...

A light and lilting Christmas piece for youth or adult choir containing keyboard accompaniment, with optional claves and handbells

This lovely Marian motet by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Orban could be used liturgically during Advent or Christmas. Though likely more useful in a concert setting, the piece is scored for mixed chorus...

This Christmas motet (hodie) by Andrew Larson of Stetson University is scored for mixed voices (soprano divisi) with a challenging piano accompaniment. It is perfect for a Christmas concert!

A perennial favorite, this Christmas gem is also available in SAB (HMC179), SSA (HMC482), and high or low voice solo in the collection Welcome In The Stranger (HMC174).

A light, catchy rhythm makes this Christmas piece appealing, it is easily worked up by most groups.

The text for this lovely anthem is by the prolific lyricist Mary Kay Beall. Here, Lee Roesti sets the gentle text for mixed voices accompanied by piano or organ. Consider using the piece on Christmas...

This is a lovely setting of the John 1:14 text (the Word became flesh and dwelt among us) scored for mixed chorus (divisi) with piano. You may be familiar with the settings by Hassler or Lasso, but yo...

Set to the free meter of chant, this piece is true to the 13th century plainsong. It is scored for SATB mixed chorus, optional children's choir, congregation and piano with optional flute or brass qui...

Set to texts by Christina Rossetti and composer, this Christmas work is scored for SAB mixed voices with piano. The lovely melodic lines are carefully combined with a simple yet engaging harmonic stru...

From our Accent On Youth Series comes this medium-easy, secular piece for secondary chorus that evokes the 'home for the holidays' feeling.

This is something a little different for a sacred Christmas concert. A bit advanced, for wordless four-part choir and organ, with narration of Julie Stine's rather mystical poetry, approximately 5 min...

An interesting concert piece, not especially difficult, with a fifteenth century feel to it. Alternates English and Latin not a translation of the previous phrase, more a comment on it. With the optio...

Quick, light renaissance-type Christmas piece, fairly easy, good for concert or banquet setting

This SATB lullaby is quite accessible and contains a light, happy rhythm with a solo that tells the Christmas story. The soloist can be either male or female, or can be done by the tenor section.

An easily learned, simple, haunting Christmas lullaby, good choice for the young or inexperienced choir

From Gardner's 'Six American Hymns In A Free Style', his setting of the familiar Christmas carol has a pleasant and easy swing to it. The harmonization shifts from verse to verse, adding interest.

Pote's accessible setting of Rossetti's familiar poem begins and ends with solo voice, and features optional handbells and a C instrument.

A simple, heartfelt wish that reaches beyond the glitter and is easily learned by middle or high school groups. The closest it actually gets to being sacred is one phrase, 'may God give you His light'...