Barbershop Sheet Music for Mixed Voices

Another memorable Christmas spiritual from Jay Althouse. Strong dynamic contrasts (from 'Whisper, whisper, tiny baby in a manger lay' to 'Shout it out from the hills and valleys; baby born today') mak...

Need a full-sounding piece for the Christmas season? This is IT! SATB with an echo quintet. Maybe performed with or without keyboard accompaniment. A fun number to put together. Be prepared for some s...

I have embedded this internationally well-known melody in a harmonic room of bells which is rendered by the male voices. To enhance the feeling of two independent entities, the melody and the bell ost...

The melody of the world-famous Christmas carol is embedded in a sound space full of bells in the male voices. The independence of these two levels is emphasized by the fact that they are sung in diffe...

This wonderful carol melody is sung by the altos and is accompanied by an ostinato 'motor' in the male voices. The soprano part moves independently and comments, so to speak, on themelodic happenings.

Over a kind of ostinato motor in the male voices, the wonderful melody of this song is heard throughout in the alto. The independently led soprano comments, as it were, on the melodic events. I make m...

Ein Schlaflied für das Jesus-Kind und 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' auf Ukrainisch, mit volkstümlichen Worten, 'als seien diese gerade eben auf den Lippen der Menschen von Heute erschienen' (V. Silves...

Ein Schlaflied für das Jesus-Kind und 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' auf Ukrainisch, mit volkstümlichen Worten, 'als seien diese gerade eben auf den Lippen der Menschen von Heute erschienen' (V. Silves...

Will Todd, born in 1970, is forging a strong reputation for himself as a composer who is equally at ease in opera, oratorio, church music and jazz. His style is instantly accessible and lastingly memo...

Gaudete ('rejoice') is an anonymous composition whose chorus was first published in 1582 in the Piae Cantiones collection. The verses are taken from a medieval Czech song, Ezechielis Porta, and tell o...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. They are suitable for intermediate standard choirs. This piece is an antiphon for 21st December,...

Nigel Short, founder and director of the choir Tenebrae, adds a jazz flavour to this well-known carol. The result is a serene arrangement with luscious, close harmonies which would be add a reflective...

Another close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas melody, with Latin text. The melody, shared by different voice parts, is accompanied by sustained, stirring harmonies in the remaining part...

Ein fröhliches, jazziges Arrangement des berühmten Weihnachtslieds mit einer frechen Wendung - ein ideales Finale oder eine perfekte Zugabe, das bzw. die jedem Hörer ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubern wi...

Close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas text by the former member, and later musical director, of the Swingle Singers, Carol Canning.

Close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas text by the former member, and later musical director, of the Swingle Singers, Carol Canning.

A new addition to the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series, this carol by the leading Finnish composer of his generation was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge and first performed at A Fe...

This Christmas carol, commissioned by the Finnish broadcasting company Yle and first performed in Helsinki by Helsinki Chamber Choir, conducted by Nils Schweckendiek, is based on three texts, two by W...

A new setting of the well-known Christmas text, this work was written for London Consort Choir. It is a mostly homophonic and approachable but effective alternative to other settings of the text, whic...

A song was heard at Christmas was written for Gorseinon Youth Choir and premiered at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall in December 2009. It was featured on BBC Radio 3's Carols for Breakfast in 2011.Featuring t...

'Blessed be that Maid Marie' was premiered by the BBC Singers at St Giles' Cripplegate, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 broadcast in December 2012.'Blessed be that Maid Marie' is essentially a traditiona...

A new carol for unaccompanied choir by Hywel Davies, featuring the composer's own text.

Commissioned by the Fairhaven Singers (Ralph Woodward, conductor) and premiered in December 2013, this Christmas carol is not explicitly religious and so can be used at any occasion during the festive...

This short carol, a setting of an anonymous 15th-century text, was commissioned for a service given in Cambridge in 2012 by the Fairhaven Singers, conducted by Ralph Woodward. A witness account of The...