Christmas

This heartfelt winter song is a tribute to everyone's hometown during the special month of December. Relatable for choirs in both warm or cold climates, this song is about the festive decorations and...

Kodály's Christmas Dance of the Shepherds for a women's choir and a wind instrument was composed between 1927 and 1935. The text is based on a hungarian christmas carol. Elisabeth M. Lockwood translat...

The lovely poem, First Cradle, by Brian Newhouse speaks of a mother holding her child and evokes thoughts of the holy child of Christmas. True to his style, Kyle Pederson works magic with the poem, wi...

Year-in and year-out this is certainly one of the most programmed of all the secular holiday songs heard each and every year! It's brought to life in this extraordinary new setting by Alan Billingsley...

Year-in and year-out this is certainly one of the most programmed of all the secular holiday songs heard each and every year! It's brought to life in this extraordinary new setting by Alan Billingsley...

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (Mixed Voices & Accompaniment) Merry Christmas Everyone (Unison/Upper Voices & Accompaniment) Merry Christmas Everyone (Mixed Voices & Accompaniment)

These delightful Gaelic-flavored settings, including 'The Wexford Carol' and 'Suo Gân', are fresh, airy and unique. Instrumentation includes optional 'Celtic' instruments which can beeffectively...

This delightful setting of three traditional folksongs reflects the joy of the holiday season in the midst of the cold, dark Scandinavian winter. The carols would be sung on Christmas Eve, when stars...

In a simple, beautiful new arrangement for unison choir, piano, and violin, Rupert Lang breathes new life into this traditional Austrian carol. Text in German and English. Duration: 2:55.

From the collection For Him all Stars, 'Cradle Song' is a wistful 3/4-time Christmas lullaby which sets a text by William Blake. Scored for SA and piano, it features gentle but persistently discordant...

Range c-g'. This much-loved and uplifting carol, first performed by the choir of Clare College, Cambridge, tells the story of a shepherd boy playing his pipe on the journey to Bethlehem to see the inf...

The melody of this accessible carol for unison voices and piano (setting the composer's own lyrics) flows with ease. The finely controlled texture builds from sopranos over wordless backing to a rich...

A joyful carol of celebration with the refrain 'Gloria in excelsis Deo'.

In this macaronic carol, Arakelyan combines Latin and English texts and employs effective textural contrasts through unison, imitative, and polyphonic passages.

'Cantemos a María' is a popular Christmas carol from the Dominican Republic in the style of the merengue, the Dominican national dance. The villancico is characterized by its simple melodies and gentl...

The charming and vibrant melody of this attractive carol for choir and piano glides above harmonies that are almost entirely diatonic, but whose originality and frequent passing dissonances mean that...

This gentle yet joyful Christmas Carol sets a text that evokes imagery of Bethlehem at the time of Christ's birth: a land with olive trees and sheep on the hillside. The delicate and supportive piano...

This piece was originally published in a version for mixed voices. With lush harmonies, moments of dynamic intensity, and an overriding sense of awe, it would make an ideal centrepiece for a Christmas...

This is an attractive carol to a traditional Scottish text and with a gentle 'folk-y' feel. A flowing melody, complete with flattened 7ths and delicate Scotch snaps, appears in various guises, each ve...

second part) and piano. With a text by Eugene Field, Higgins' charming melodies gently rock in compound time and start off in unison before growing into a simple two-part texture. The voices are suppo...

From the collection Mack Wilberg Carols, this tender, gentle arrangement of the popular Austrian carol has two simple vocal lines (one for women and one for men), supported by a steady, rich piano acc...

This tunefully lilting carol for choir and organ will prove popular with audiences and choirs alike, its six verses deftly marrying variety with diversity to create an attractive shape.

A homely text by Joyce Kilmer is the starting-point for this gorgeously expressive ballad for unison voices and piano.