Carols for Choirs - Volume 5

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Carols for Choirs 1 , OUP presents a new volume in this ground-breaking series. Carols for Choirs 5 continues the tradition of its predecessors by providing a complete resource for choirs from Advent through to Epiphany. Featuring brand new carols and arrangements of classic tunes, the collection showcases the very best established and new names in choral composition today, both in the UK and world-wide.

• 50 carols for every occasion
• well-loved tunes in fresh arrangements
• original compositions, including many specially written for the collection
• a wide range of composers
• carols for audience or congregation with varied harmonizations and festive descants
• a balanced mix of accompanied and unaccompanied items
• the order of service for a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

• a detailed list of carol orchestrations available on hire/rental

• Cecilia McDowall: A Heavenly Song

• Malcolm Archer: A little child there is yborn
• Carl Rütti: A Patre Unigenitus
• Howard Skempton: Adam lay ybounden
• W. J. Kirkpatrick arr. Alan Bullard: Away in a manger (UK tune)
• James R. Murray arr. Bob Chilcott: Away in a manger (US tune)
• Trad. German arr. Stephen Cleobury: Blest Mary wanders through the thorn
• John Rutter: Candlelight Carol
• Francis Pott: Carol
• 16th-cent. French arr. Mack Wilberg: Ding dong! merrily on high
• Alan Bullard: Glory to the Christ Child
• Trad. English arr. Mark Sirett: God rest you merry, gentlemen
• Piae Cantiones arr. Bob Chilcott: Good King Wenceslas
• Mendelssohn arr. Paul Leddington Wright: Hark! the herald-angels sing
• Gabriel Jackson: Hush! my dear
• Alan Bullard: I saw a stable
• Andrew Simpson: I saw three ships
• Matthew Martin: I sing of a maiden
• Old German carol arr. Bob Chilcott: In dulci jubilo
• Trad. English/Sullivan arr. John Scott: It came upon the midnight clear (UK tune )
• Willis/Burnap arr. Mack Wilberg: It came upon the midnight clear (US tune)
• Mason/Handel arr. Mack Wilberg: Joy to the world!
• 14th-cent. German arr. David Blackwell: Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
• David Willcocks: Lullay, my liking
• Will Todd: My Lord has Come
• John Rutter: New Year
• J. F. Wade arr. Philip Ledger: O come, all ye faithful
• 15th-cent. French arr. Paul Leddington Wright: O come, O come, Emmanuel
• Bob Chilcott: O little town
• Jaakko M"antyj"arvi: Old Christmas Returned (or Hospitality Revived)
• Kerry Andrew: Out of the Orient crystal skies
• Bob Chilcott: Pilgrim Jesus
• Alan Bullard: Scots Nativity
• John Goss arr. Paul Leddington Wright: See amid the winter's snow
• Franz Gruber arr. Bob Chilcott: Silent night
• Trad. English arr. Bob Chilcott: Sussex Carol
• Philip Ledger: The Bell Carol
• Gabriel Jackson: The Christ-child
• Matthew Owens: The holly and the ivy
• Bob Chilcott: The Sparrows' Carol
• Hermione Roff: The Virgin's Song
• Howard Skempton: There is no rose
• Alan Smith: There is no rose
• John Hearne: There's a song in the air!
• Z. Randall Stroope: This endris night
• Jussi Chydenius: Voices in the Mist
• Jonathan Willcocks: Wassail
• J. H. Hopkins arr. Paul Leddington Wright: We three kings of Orient are
• Thomas Hewitt Jones: What child is this?
• Este's Psalter arr. Bob Chilcott: While shepherds watched their flocks