Christmas Gospel Hymns

Gospels and sacred hymns have become increasingly popular in the choral world, especially at Christmas. Their contents and melodies have delighted, deeply moved and comforted many generations. 'Christmas Gospel Hymns' presents a collection of the most beautiful Christmas gospel hymns in easy to intermediate arrangements in pop and swing style. The movements include chord numbering and piano accompaniment, yet can also be sung a cappella. Known throughout the world, all gospels and hymns are in English. / Choeur Mixte Et Piano

This little piece was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge in 2002 as the then-latest in their celebrated annual Christmastide service of Nine Lessons and Carols for their unique Chapel - it is dedicated to the choir and its director Stephen Cleobury. 'Little', but already a mini-cantata telling the start of the familiar story - Gabriel's Annunciation - praise to the Virgin before she too sings 'my soul doth magnify the Lord': the shepherds a-watching their flocks by night - the angelic chorus in the sky - the fusion of celestial and earthy around the crib holding the baby who is also 'lord of Time and Space'. Here we stop, for now. In fact this is only the first panel of a Christmas Sequence that continues and concludes the whole tale. Seeking out unhackneyed texts, I found such attractive material in the byways that I couldn't resist weaving together from it a composite tapestry, then setting the lot! The words of this section are from the Gospel account, anonymous carols of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, Edmund Bolton (1611, 'Sweet music, sweeter far...'), the Gloria from the Mass, a couple of lines from well-loved Anglican Christmas hymns - with neutral link-lines of my own. The music, also, has elements of such wider referencing, which will surely not be lost on the attentive hearer! / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

Nowhere else will you find gathered together into one priceless treasury so many of your favourite American folk songs, patriotic anthems and marches, heart songs, sea chanteys, colonial songs, civil war songs, hymns, gospel songs, spirituals, Christmas carols, memorial songs, and sacred classics. This comprehensive volume includes over 175 full Piano arrangements with complete lyrics and chord symbols, and is illustrated with woodcuts, engravings and drawings throughout. / Rép International / Recueil / Piano

For the first time in this popular series Lloyd Larson has taken four of Fred Bock's best arrangements of Bill and Gloria Gaither's songs and adapted them to an easier level. Also included are six arrangements of hymns gospelfavorites and Christmas carols. Titles include: Because He Lives ? Get All Excited ? Amazing Grace ? He Touched Me ? and 6 more.