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This is No. 4 of a group of folksongs collectively called Four Folksongs for the British Isles. These imaginative settings of traditional songs are easy and effective - potential showpieces for any co...

A highly accessible and mellifluous arrangement for unaccompanied SATB. The delicate scoring, smooth vocal lines, and well-judged splashes of harmonic colour allow the simple beauty of the tune to be...

A highly accessible and mellifluous arrangement for unaccompanied SATB. The delicate scoring, smooth vocal lines, and well-judged splashes of harmonic colour allow the simple beauty of the tune to be...

'Locus iste' has become a popular text for church dedication services. This simple and beautiful linear setting by O'Regan provides a stylish alternative to other, over-familiar settings.

This emotive motet sets a combination of verses from Psalms 31, 48, and 71. Essentially a prayer for God's protection and guidance, the piece is characterized by pungent and mesmerizing shifts of harm...

This piece sets a poem by Amy Lowell, vividly conveying the effect of the wind through a moving tapestry of eighth notes/quavers intertwined between the different voices. The melody floats over this b...

Setting a well-known Latin text, Miller mixes expressive harmony and flowing polyphony to create a touching anthem. The opening and closing sections develop the chant-like opening motif, enclosing a j...

This innovative setting of the Magnificat celebrates the strength of teenage girls and is suitable for both liturgical and concert performance. The upper-voices sing in the style of Bulgarian choral f...

For SATBB unaccompanied. A series of superb anthems spanning one of the greatest periods of English music. The anthems reflect many stuyles ranging from simple four-part chordal anthems to elaborate m...

SATB unaccompanied. A fine four-part motet for Christmas.

One of the simplest and best-loved of 16th-century anthems.

A setting of a poem by Ursula Wood, later to become Ursula Vaughan Williams.. The dedication reads, 'To the memory of Charles Villiers Stanford, and his Blue Bird'.

Another issue in the Church Music Society's series of great 16th-century Responds, John Sheppard's Reges Tharsis is for the season of Epiphany, celebrating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus. T...

This fine Respond by Thomas Tallis is scored for SATTBarB, with the chant placed in the 2nd Tenor part. Intended for the Feast of Corpus Christi, it can be sung at any Eucharistic service, either as a...

Molto ammirato come studioso e direttore di coro, il compianto David Trendell ha composto queste Preces & Responses per SATB quando era Organ Scholar dell'Exeter College di Oxford, intorno al 1985. Re...

I due madrigali più amati di Robert Lucas Pearsall, Great God of Love e Lay a garland per SSAATTBB, sono stati qui adattati da Patrick Russill ai versi eucaristici di San Tommaso d'Aquino O salutaris...

This subtle setting of the popular carol is soft and gentle, never louder than mezzo-piano. The ethereal background starts in a high register with a repeated figure that evokes tranquility. A differen...

For SSATB unaccompanied - While perhaps Tallis and Byrd's Lamentations are better known, Robert White's Lamentations reflects a uniquely bleak and austere vision and is surely one of the composer's fi...

For SSAATTBarB unaccompanied - Descendi in hortum meum is an original setting of the Song of Solomon, unique in that it is arranged for seven voices while still capturing the lush and beautiful essenc...

Helvey sets a combination of sacred texts to beautiful music. Similar to his Cor mundum crea in me Deus, Helvey writes mainly in homophonic textures, with thick, lush chords.

Eleanor Daley sets the text from Corinthians, 'Love is patient, Love is kind' as a descant above a repeated, polyphonic, and homophonic SATB chant of the Latin text Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est. T...

For SATB unaccompanied - DiOrio sets a biblical text appropriate for Holy Week and Easter in a fresh, flowing harmonic style. This piece works well in concert settings and in church services.