Oxford University Press Sheet Music

This engaging, upbeat work sets a text by the Malaysian singer Bihzhu celebrating the collective excitement in exploring the unknown. Fly! features a contemporary, pop-inspired melody and a fun, synco...

This optimistic piece is characterized by catchy, singable melodies and a syncopated rhythmic drive in the vocal and piano writing. Wong employs a variety of textures to bring the setting to life, inc...

The title of this life-affirming six-movement work comes from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: 'One touch of nature makes the whole world kin'. Through a compilation of texts by writers such as Alg...

Prologue is the first movement from Sarah Quartel's Snow Angel, an evocative five-movement choral work which is a firm favourite with choirs across the world. The musical language is emotive and picto...

Presented here in an arrangement for upper-voices, this is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic...

She Sang the Stars uses the lens of Elias Lönnrot's Finnish epic, the Kalevala, to explore the stages of womanhood. With all texts in English translation, the work's outer movements act as an introduc...

Written for the California Junior High All-State Honor Choir, this piece sets a motivational text by the composer on the theme of embracing new opportunities and, using the metaphor of a river, encour...

Setting a text by the contemporary writer and librettist Jennifer Thorp, this upbeat work is instantly catchy. Using vibrant language,Cacao tells a story from the perspective of the cacao seed from wh...

Wanderlust reflects on friendships and the desire to explore, both literally and figuratively. Ideal for children's choir, it features a memorable melody and nostalgic harmonies against the backdrop o...

TaReKiTa is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly fuses the Hindustani (North Indian) and Western classical music styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slide...

This set of three captivating pieces is designed to introduce choirs to the Hindi language. 'Sŭnāō' translates as 'have me listen', but is closer in meaning to 'tell me' or 'sing for me'. The first so...

Setting Christina Rossetti's poem A Song of Flight, this uplifting piece is a celebration of freedom, action, and courage. Its flowing lyrical lines are paired with a supportive and driving accompanim...

A simple, delightful setting of a Yeats poem which embraces nature's beauty and the secret joy of solitude. Suitable for concert use.

This exquisite setting for SSA unaccompanied voices of a well-known Marian motet (in Latin) is the first of Rebecca Clarke's choral works ever to be published.

For unaccompanied five-part women's chorus (SSSAA). Although quite short, this is one of Clarke's boldest and, in some respects, most ambitious compositions. It sets Shelley's magnificent ode to the E...

This is a colourful and dramatic celebration of nature and its powerful and hypnotizing sounds. The listener is taken on a captivating journey through the natural world, via 'tongues of thunders', the...

The Shipping Forecast is in 3 movements: 'Donegal', 'They that go down to the sea in ships', and 'Naming'. The first and last movement are settings of poems by the poet, broadcaster, and academic, Sea...

Another winning collaboration between Bob Chilcott and author Charles Bennett, this work was commissioned by Age UK Oxfordshire as part of a project to highlight and combat loneliness. The singers ass...

This is a funky arrangement of Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' with an English text by Henry van Dyke. Milloy jazzes up the well-known melody by arranging it in 12/8 time and adding syncopation, while suppor...

For SATB with optional piano. These four masterfully crafted songs by Brahms (edited by Rutter) feature the original German words as well as an optional English translation, provided by Rutter himself...

Reginal Wright's emotional and uplifting Crossroad sets Robert Frost's well-known poem 'The road not taken'. A twinkling piano accompaniment supports the voices, and the optional violin duet floats ab...

'As Each Leaf Dances' is a setting of a powerful text by Kevin Crossley-Holland about the cruelty of child abuse being overcome by love and kindness. Reflecting this, the first section features a rele...

'Skylark, have you anything to say to me?' This timeless arrangement of Skylark, a standard of the golden age of American song, is rich, mellow, and mellifluous. Soaring lines for flute depict the epo...

Ian Crawford's arrangement of Schubert's famous and brilliantly dramatic Erlkonig enables choirs to explore dramaturgy and storytelling while learning a staple of Schubert's rich output for voices. Th...

Voice on the Wind sets an inspiring text, written by the composer, about the empowerment of singing. With a catchy melody, imitative scat singing, and a driving hand drum accompaniment, this piece has...