Oxford University Press Sheet Music

This profoundly beautiful setting by John Rutter of one of the earliest English prayers, from the Sarum Primer of 1514, has been specially adapted by the composer for tenors and basses.

This arrangement of a traditional Welsh melody is an offprint from Benedict Sheehan's musical dramatization of A Christmas Carol.

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...

Ian Crawford breathes new life into this traditional American tune by employing a bluegrass-inspired style, jaunty syncopations, and an upbeat tempo. This flexible arrangement is accommodating and idi...

Two exquisite miniatures which demonstrate the composer's distinctive ability to express the essence of a text in a beautifully understated fashion. He conveys a sense of pastoral timelessness while r...

O Guiding Night is a colourful and evocative setting of the text 'The Dark Night' by 16th-century Spanish mystic/poet St John of the Cross. Williams's setting really gets to the heart of the words, co...

Commissioned by the Nidaros Cathedral Girls' Choir, this jazzy setting of the Missa Brevis will be welcomed by all upper-voice choirs who enjoyed A Little Jazz Mass.

Alan Bullard's first Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, written for the choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, can be performed a cappella or with organ. Both movements feature pleasing tonal contrasts and ha...

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

This Christmas hymn includes John Rutter's own arrangement of the fifth and final verse. Orchestral scores and parts are also available for hire. Offprinted from the collection O Holy Night.

A setting of A. E. Housman's poem 'In Valleys Green and Still'.

Mack Wilberg has arranged the well-loved Irish folk melody Londonderry Air, setting to it the words of Howard A. Walter's poem 'I would be true'. Alternative words to the second and third verses by Da...

Setting an evocative text by Louise Imogen Guiney, this reflective carol will be a particularly useful addition to the repertory of cathedral choirs. The oft-changing metres complement the poetic metr...

Forever Child is a suite of seven pieces on the theme of childhood. The work forms an excellent concert suite, or any of its movements may be extracted for separate performance.

A haunting depiction of the 'magic made by melody . . . Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep', from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Instrumental parts for the original version (SATB and strings) are av...

This delightful work brings together arrangements of four folksongs: 'Green Bushes', 'The Rambling Sailor', 'The Crystal Spring', and 'O, No John!'. A Fancy of Folksongs can be accompanied by piano or...

This gentle setting of a prayer by Alcuin of York has an appealing melody and warm harmonies. After opening with a verse for sopranos only, Archer varies the vocal texture for each successive verse, c...

This work was written around 1940, placing it near the beginning of a series of Clarke's late compositions. It both looks forward to her lean, linear, avowedly modern conceptions and backwards to work...

Presented here in an arrangement for SABar voices, this setting of words by Chief Dan George optimistically reminds us that there is still beauty to be found in times of trouble and that difficult day...

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...

This upbeat work sets a text by the Malaysian singer Bihzhu celebrating the collective excitement in exploring the unknown. The supportive piano accompaniment brings a hint of the Malaysian soundworld...