Eight seasonal carols for mixed choir-Eight popular carols for SATB choir unaccompanied. This collection presents some of most attractive carols by the composer Charles Wood and the hymnodist antiquarian linguist and musician G.R. Woodward who both composed his own music and provided many of the texts set by Wood. Seven of the included carols are for Christmas with the remaining one for Easter.

O For A Lay! is a work by Charles Wood for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. A setting of a poem by George Ratcliffe Woodward a full performance lasts around 1 and a half minutes.

Hail Gladdening Light is an expressive anthem for Double Choir as composed by Charles Wood with words by John Keble.

Written for unaccompanied SATB choir. Words translated from the German by Longfellow.

Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year. A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selection of movements from the Mass can be used to enrich the music of the liturgy in services. Many of the works in Sing, Choirs! are presented in their original form, such as Bruckner's Locus Iste and Mozart's Laudate Dominum . Others are arrangements, adaptations or longer pieces, abridged to bring them into the scope of a useable anthem, including choral arrangements of Handel's Largo , the Ave Marias by Schubert and by Bach and Gounod, and Franck's Panis Angelicus amongst many others. This collection has practicability as a priority. The Organ parts can be played on either the Piano or the Keyboard. Much of the music in Sing, Choirs! will be suitable for special occasions, making this an indispensable volume for choirs singing at weekly church services, weddings, funerals and in the concert hall. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

100 Settings for SA MEN-One thing is for sure: this is the only carol book you need this Christmas!This collection is a real treasury of the most popular Christmas carols specially arranged for the parish choir where tenors and basses sing justone part. The Ultimate SA Men Carol Book consists of 100 carols in total many with descants including the classic arrangements of Charles Wood and John Stainer plus newer settings by Malcolm Archer RichardLloyd Sarah Watts and others - a sackful of music for the busiest season of the year!

Even such is Time an early motet for double choir written in 1913 ‘as student homework for Dr. Charles Wood’ with whom Howells studied harmony and counterpoint at the Royal College of Music between 1912 and 1917. It was published for the first time in 2008.

Tarantella is a piece for Piano Duet. Ernest Markham Lee (1874-1956) was a British composer organist and examiner. He was Organ Scholar at Emmanuel College Cambridge where he studied underCharles Wood. His career consisted of many strands - he was a Professor of Organ at the Guildhall School Of Music and also lectured at the universities of Cambridge Oxford and London. At the same time he was a lecturer andexaminer for the ABRSM in which role he travelled all over the world while maintaining a position as a church organist and choir master.

Music played an enormous role in the works of William Shakespeare, while his own sonnets, poems and soliloquies have provided continuing inspiration for many composers through the years. The Novello Shakespeare Choral Collection, inspired by the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in 2016, is an exciting anthology of choral works that are settings of Shakespeare's words. For choirs of all types and abilities, this collection has been edited by David Wordsworth so that all the pieces are fantastic both to sing and hear.The collection features some beautiful settings that have well and truly stood the test of time, such as Thomas Arne's Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind and Henry Leslie's How Sweet The Moonlight Sleeps. More recent settings from 20th century and contemporary composers include Ernest Moeran's Sigh No More, Ladies, Gary Carpenter's Lo, Here, The Gentle Lark and John Tavener's Fear No More and Look In Thy Glass.Not only this, the Shakespeare Choral Collection boasts several works that were specially commissioned, including John Joubert's Be Not Afeard, Richard Sisson's Light Thickens and Pawel Lukaszewki's Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed. Some pieces have never appeared before in print, such as those by Kevin Olsen, Bernard Hughes and John Gardner. These songs truly are a joy to perform, with some relatively simple arrangements that are purely fun to sing, while some more complex settings that will be thoroughly rewarding for choirs and audiences alike.A total of 26 fantastic works comprise The Novello Shakespeare Choral Collection, which would work as a wonderful concert programme on its own, or could provide a wealth of options for choirs looking to expand their repertoire with a range of unique settings. Also included is a fascinating introduction by editor David Wordsworth, and notes describing each piece.Words written by indisputably the greatest writer in the English language can only be matched with music by composers of talent and renown such as these. The Novello Shakespeare Choral Collection is an essential anthology of stunning settings of beautiful words which will be performed and enjoyed for many years to come. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)