Compiled and edited by Lionel Dakers & John Scott SATB accompanied & unaccompanied-This wonderful collection aims to provide a comprehensive resource-book covering a highly significant part of the Church's year. Its contents span all periods of what is a marvellously rich and uniquely prolific area of church music and it contains much that is not widely available elsewhere under one cover.A major policy in compiling the contents has been to ensure that they are relevant to a broad range of musical traditions with pieces of varying degrees of difficulty to suit the needs and abilities of all choirs. The requirements of the increasing number of small choral groups as distinct from church and cathederal choirs have similarly been catered for inthe choice of material. Presents pieces in order according to the Church's calendar from Ash Wednesday and Lent to Easter with a generous number of pieces for each season or day Includes the best of the standard repertoire for example Byrd's Civitas Sancti Tui and Stainer's God So Loved The World Contains fine less familiar works and new or recent arrangements of well-known tunes such as This Joyful Eastertide Now The Green Blade Riseth and Were You There Contains a number of newly comissioned anthems from well-known church composers Includes important liturgical settings for example two versions of the Litany (BCP and ASB) Vidi Aquam and Easter Alleluias Ranges widely from the sixteenth century to the present day and across all the major traditions

Sarah Quartel's A Winter Day for SATB (with divisions) Cello and Piano. This five-movement work celebrates the long Canadian winter setting texts by the composer Sara Teasdale Lucy Maud Montgomery (of 'Anne of Green Gables' fame) and Melville Cane. Each movement depicts a different time of day beginning with the cold darkness before dawn ('Timid Star') and concluding with the evening turning into dusk and then darkness ('Snow Toward Evening'). The music conjures up vivid images of a cold and crisp winter and of swirling dancing snowflakes.

Cee Lo Green's Christmas album featured this R&B classic that captures all of Cee Lo's coolness for your holiday program and offers the assurance that better Christmases are ahead! Available separately: SATB SAB SSA ShowTrax CD. Rhythm parts (syn gtr b dm) available as a digital download. Duration: ca. 2:50.

This choral by Tom Fettke will be your pop ballad hit of the holiday season. Musically lush and a thoughtful meaningful text combine into a contemporary sound suitable for larger choirs or ensemble groups. An endearing Christmas message to carry throughout the year.

A jolly Christmas carol-This lively carol was commissioned in 2005 by Lichfield Cathedral Special Choir (now called the Cathedral Chorus) to celebrate the birth of Hannah Scriven and Holly Mason the daughters of the two cathedral organists at that time. The words were specially written by Tony Barnard the then Canon Chancellor at Lichfield and a member of the choir. This carol whilst not entirely foreign to my normal style touches more ‘country and western’/popular buttons than I am in the habit of touching. But I wanted to write a tuneful piece which swayed and danced and reflected the colourful imagery of Tony Barnard’s text. Recommended recording: Comeout Lazar – The shorter choral works of Paul Spicer (Regent REGCD280) by The Chapel Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge and Claire Innes-Hopkins (organ) directed by Sarah MacDonald. Text: This child of God who’s born on Christmas day whom shepherds view to whom kings homage pay is called to be a shepherd and a king. Sing alleluias praise this wondrous thing. This child of God is shepherd born to lead through pastures green by banks of golden reed; nor left nor right but ever on the way which leads to Calvary and endless day. This child of God this Son of David’s line is root of tree a shoot a fruitful vine it shelter gives to all who see the way which leads them to the cross and Easter day. This child of God this many spangled star is light’ning flash which dazzles near and far; bright light to guide our feet along the way that leads to Calvary and endless day. This child of God is called to save mankind to open eye and ear the heart and mind; to heal and make the lame man leap and play along the road that leads to Easter Day. This child of God let angel voices praise. Give God the glory live his loving ways. Let peace on earth o’er come our worldly strife through all who walk his road throughout their life. Tony Barnard

Easy concert arrangement for SATB with keyboard or small orchestra from Four Christmas Carols: O Green And Shimmering Tree Good Day (HMC926) Fum Fum Fum (HMC928) I Saw Three Ships (HMC923).

This Motown classic gets a holiday remake with the Cee Lo Green cover from his Cee Lo's Magic Moment CD. Show choirs pop choirs - any kind of choirs! All will love the boost of rhythmic energy this tune will bring to a holiday concert! Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Combo parts (tpt 1-2 tsx tbn bsx syn gtr b dm) available as a digital download. Duration: ca. 2:30.

O Waly Waly(Old English Tune)-Thoughtful text by Fred Pratt Green set to a traditional English melody for Maundy Thursday or Communion throughout the year

Gathered from our most successful seasonal cantatas this compilation of beloved carols is designed to work as choral anthems or for choir and congregational corporate singing. Erase the boundaries between loft and pew by bringingthe church body together in the embrace of time-tested Christmas and Advent selections. Fully orchestrated by Brant Adams these arrangements will lift your sanctuary singing to new heights. Congregants sing along while the choiradds power depth and harmonic color. The final verses of these Christmas standards are among some of the most inspiring passages you will ever experience. These arrangements will be used year after year for ?Hanging of theGreen? gatherings ?Lessons and Carol? services or for festival hymn singing during the holidays. Available separately: SATB Listening CD Preview Pack (Book/CD Combo) Orchestration CD-ROM (Score and Parts forFlute 1

Uses: Advent Christmas Hanging of the Greens Scripture: Romans 3:23-24 Romans 6:4 I John 3:1 This is a singular offering that is ideally designed for Hanging of the Greens services or moments where the sanctuary adornments are celebrated. The hymn tune SLANE familiar from Be Thou My Vision wears its holiday clothing well. This seasonal re-tooling is adroitly arranged for quick learning. A hymn version is provided to enable congregational usage. Tender and meaningful!

'From the Beginning of the World was commissioned by the Cardinall’s Musick and premiered at Cadogan Hall on the 20th July 2015 in the first of the 2015 BBC Proms Chamber Music Concerts. The concert launched The Tallis Edition a new project by the ensemble with an aim to throw new light on Tallis’s work and part of the commission brief was that my new piece should be a homage to this great English polyphonist. I spent several weeks in libraries attempting to find a suitable text eventually settling on excerpts from Tycho Brahe’s German Treatise on the Great Comet of 1577. Whether Tallis knew about the comet is unknown of course but this seismic event to me seemed emblematic of all the great changes that occurred during his lifetime in areas such as religion the calendar and time-keeping (finding out that Tallis lived out his last days in Greenwich was an extra bonus). The text also seems to speak to contemporary times: whilst Brahe may have thought the comet’s birth would cause the sun to ‘bring unnatural heat’ nowadays we know that its ‘venom [will be] spewed over the lands’ due to mankind’s continued pillaging of the earth’s natural resources. Yet our political ‘pseudo prophets’ prefer to distract us with an austerity delusion rather than confront a reality perpetuated by certain corporations for whom ‘seek[ing] their own honour’ is of primary value. The music itself is very influenced by Tallis and canons and imitation abound. During my time as a ‘cellist at the Yehudi Menuhin School I performed Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis many times and so From the Beginning of the World which also uses Tallis’s Third Mode Melody from the English Hymnal is really a homage to both composers.' - Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

A concert piece of moderate difficulty for SATB with piano or small orchestra from Four Christmas Carols: Fum Fum Fum (HMC928) Away In A Manger (HMC925) I Saw Three Ships (HMC928)