Oxford University Press Sheet Music

The Oxford Book of Descants is a definitive collection of 102 descants to well-known hymns, carols, and worship songs. It features descants by a wide range of composers, including contemporary names s...

With specially written poems by Karlis Verdins based on the Adonis chapters from Frazer's The Golden Bough, each song in this little cycle explores a single Affekt.

Four Shakespeare Songs sets texts exploring different aspects of love. Using passages from various Shakespeare plays, McDowall's writing is beautiful and clever in how it reflects the moods and emotio...

Try me, good King is a group of five songs drawn from the final letters and gallows speeches of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The cycle is a psychologically intense monodrama that presents technic...

With a text by the composer, this work was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'.

Scored for high voice and piano or organ, this folk-inspired melody is gentle and free-flowing, perfectly suited to the natural imagery found in the Lowry's popular poem. Also available in a version f...

Scored here for high voice and piano or organ, this meaningful text by David Warner is accompanied by beautiful leaps and subsequent suspensions in the memorable melody, which is supported by rich tex...

An easy anthem for high voice and piano or organ, this piece has a haunting simplicity with a flowing tune over a gently rocking accompaniment.

Taken from Sanctum, a setting of the Requiem text for upper voices, 'Lux aeterna' features a simple and gentle melody, supported by a new piano part in this arrangement for solo voice. Also available...

This popular traditional French carol tells of the milkmaids Jeanette and Isabella, who run to tell the shepherds to come and see the baby Jesus in the stable.

This charming traditional Catalan carol is full of natural imagery exploring the return of spring. With both English and Catalan text, Wilberg's arrangement is scored for high voice and piano, capture...

Scored for high voice and piano, Wilberg's arrangement of this traditional Basque carol is gentle yet charming, with expressive suspsensions in the supportive piano accompaniment. Also available in a...

Scored for solo high voice and piano, I remember sets a text reflecting on the wonder of the natural world and the people who shape our lives. The stirring melody calls to mind the folksong tradition,...

This characterful collection features settings of six 16th- and 17th-century lyrics by anonymous authors with lively guitar accompaniments, ranging from expressive and atmospheric to bawdy in characte...

This is an attractive carol to a traditional Scottish text and with a gentle 'folk-y' feel. The flowing melody features flattened sevenths and delicate Scotch snaps, with each verse ending with a lull...

Four songs for SS and piano on the theme of cities, written with younger voices in mind. Styles range from the streetwise and upbeat to a more reflective lyricism.

In the manner of a French chanson, this is a charming lullaby on a text by Victor Hugo. A sweet, simple melody is underpinned by a delicate fluid accompaniment and rich harmonic shading, to create a p...

A highly expressive setting of the biblical text, this simple work is at once tender and profound. It was composed for a memorial service for Edward T. Chapman, the Director of Music at Highgate Schoo...

This is a setting of the words used to conclude a communion service: 'The Mass is ended, thanks be to God.' The tenor's heraldic opening leads into the highly rhythmic 'Deo Gratias' section. Ideal for...

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. The thirteen movements mark the different stages of life,...

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...

This optimistic piece is characterized by catchy, singable melodies and a syncopated rhythmic drive in the vocal and piano writing. The text was co-written by the composer and the vocal percussionist...

One of McGlade's longer settings, As the hart begins simply, before expanding into a more complex section with fluctuating time signatures and shifting tonalities. Ideal for advanced choirs in a sacre...

Make We Merry is an eight-movement piece which sets texts from the 15th to 19th centuries to a variety of choral textures with a highly characterful accompaniment. A vast array of sentiments is depict...

An expressive carol with text altered from the poem Three Kings came a-riding by the famous 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Offprinted from the Christmas cantata A Light in the Stable.