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With a simple, appealing melody and a flowing accompaniment, The Colours of Christmas evokes a touching sense of longing for the joys of the festive season.

This thought-provoking carol takes up the topical theme of the plight of refugees, drawing parallels with the stories and reception of Christ's birth. The text, by the composer, alludes to familiar li...

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...

An Australian Christmas paints a vivid picture of 'Christmas in the heat' - a time of bushfires and summer storms, when many enjoy long, hot, lazy days holidaying by the water's edge. Originally publi...

Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's uplifting carol. Pack includes full score and set of parts.

Also in Carols for Choirs 3 and 100 Carols for Choirs. Also available for unison voices in a shortened and simplified version.

Unison with optional descant and piano or orchestra. Orchestral material is available on hire. The orchestral accompaniment for this version is not compatible with that for the SATB and SSAA versions.

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...

A dark and beautiful, yet also extremely approachable, work in three movements. The first two are darker in character: evening hymns that ask for protection and comfort through the night. The music li...

Full score and set of parts for Bob Chilcott's The first Nowell. The six verses of this tuneful and lilting carol deftly marry variety and diversity to create an attractive shape. This set contains th...

For unison voices (with opt. second part) and piano. Voices As One: Christmas makes exceptional Christmas music by leading Oxford choral composers available to every choir. With practical vocal ranges...

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.

Setting a text by William Chatterton Dix, this rousing carol celebrates the birth of Jesus, with memorable modal inflections in the melody and a supportive piano accompaniment.