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From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this joyful piece is evocative of a fanfare, and is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this attractive chorale prelude is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

Originally written for solo piano, Amy Beach's folk-influenced piece is here arranged for organ by Robert Gower. Featuring a lilting melody and serene atmosphere, it is suitable for players of interme...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this theatrical piece was arranged for organ by the composer, from his orchestral score for the music-drama Gold. Suitable fo...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this rippling Toccata is Gigout's best-known work, and is a favourite encore piece. Suitable for players of intermediate to a...

From the collection Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs, this pair of responses are adapted from works by Palestrina, by Francis Jackson and Philip Moore. Scored for SATB unaccompanied, with soprano sol...

The text of Omnes nu laet ons gode loven is from an old Flemish carol, and is a mixture of Old Flemish and Latin (presented here alongside an English text by Jeremy Jackman).

The melody and text of this traditional carol were first collected in 1968 by the composer Peteris Plakidis, in Katlakalns (a district of Riga). It is here arranged for unaccompanied SSA voices by Sel...

Acalentándo Jesús is a gentle lullaby for the newborn baby Jesus by Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar. Here the original text by Gerson Galle is presented alongside English words by Jeremy Jackman.

French's quasi-lullaby setting of Thomas Hardy's The Oxen opens by alternating between a tutti refrain and solo verses, with an atmospheric syllabic accompaniment, before building to a tutti final ver...

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Perfect for celebrating Pentecost, this joyous anthem on the theme of the Holy Spirit centres around the Veni Creator Spiritus plainchant, fragments of which have been skilfully developed to create an...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this magnificent fugue is popularly credited to J. S. Bach, though some eighteenth-century sources ascribe it to his pupil Jo...

Hyun Chul Lee's carol Ju Nashuhtdah welcomes the newborn king with the jubilant acclamation 'Jesus is born'. Using Korean traditional rhythms, and a pentatonic melody, he creates a bright feeling of e...

In this carol for unaccompanied SSA voices Séamas de Barra sets Séamus Ó Néill's translation of I sing of a maiden (both version of the text are presented in the score).

Singing Children is an upbeat, optimistic piece featuring scat-like vocalizations, extended unison passages, syncopations, and intuitive harmonies. The composer has adapted a song from the Elizabethan...

Marked 'light and flowing', Quartel's setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'Peace' features slow, sustained vocal writing over a piano part with continual moving quavers. The harmonic palette is rich and w...

This gentle carol sets the text of Isaac Watts' popular 'Cradle Song' to the music of Charles Villiers Stanford's lullaby, 'Golden slumbers, kiss your eyes', from his Six Songs (op. 19), written in 18...

With lilting rhythms and modal inflections in the harmony, this short, unaccompanied motet celebrates The Annunciation of Our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Includes an English translation of the La...

This carol is an original composition on a text in Old French which summarizes the story of the Nativity in rhyming verse. The composer's use throughout of a hypnotic, rhythmic melody alternating with...

Selga Mence's arrangement of this Latvian folksong presents the two phrases of the original song in a variety of textures, beginning and ending with imitations of the sound of bells. An English text b...

An original carol by Ernani Aguiar, Acalanto para o Menino Jesus was written for the feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary and illustrates the Italian influence on Brazilian culture. An English t...

The main melody of Jajang, jajang, Ahgi Yesu is a popular Korean lullaby that has been handed down through many generations. In the carol Mary, mother of Jesus, is depicted singing her child to sleep....

This work was awarded the British Composer Award for Liturgical Music in 2003, but is published for the first time in 2013. The Roman Catholic Liturgy includes an antiphon to the Magnificat at Vespers...