Intermediate Sheet Music from Boosey & Hawkes

Communion antiphon for Ash Wednesday, from the Strathclyde Motets, set II. Latin text from Psalm 1: 'Qui meditabitur in lege Domini die ac nocte dabit fructum suum in tempore suo'. Suitable for interm...

Górecki's Church Songs, based on melodies from Rev Jan Siedlecki's Spiewniki Koscielne ('church songbooks'), were composed in 1986. This edition is based on the PWM edition of 2013, which was produced...

This organ reduction is intended to use instead of the original orchestral accompaniment; it is compatible with new edition of Requiem da Camera by Christian Alexander (BH 12681). The organ reduction...

Górecki's Church Songs, based on melodies from Rev Jan Siedlecki's Spiewniki Koscielne ('church songbooks'), were composed in 1986. This edition is based on the PWM edition of 2013, which was produced...

This setting of a verse from Psalm 43 ('Send out your light and your truth; these themselves led me forth, and they brought me to your holy mountain and to your holy place') with a Gloria Patri was co...

This piece was commissioned by Merton College, Oxford for the Merton Choirbook, a collection of choral music composed to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the college in 2014. It is a setting of some...

This hymn of praise was composed on the occasion of a thanksgiving service for a betrothal in June 2011. In search of a suitable text, the composer once again turned to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Brow...

William Shakespeare's famous sonnet ('Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments'), often used at weddings and civil ceremonies, is here set to beautiful, fresh music by young composer...

With text from the Book of Psalms, His heart's desire is a short motet for mixed voices, with homophonic outer sections with minimal divisi and a middle section dividing the chorus into two SATB group...

The unique ability of the act of singing to comfort, cheer and raise ones spirit is celebrated in this beautiful choral work by Kim André Arnesen, one of Norway's most frequently performed and increas...

This work by Kim André Arnesen (one of Norway's most performed contemporary composers) was commissioned by the Athens Master Chorale, Georgia, USA for the 50th anniversary of their founder and conduct...

Composer's note: 'This work comes from amazement - that the encounter with divine love, our relationship with the sacred, is to be constantly astonished by the endlessness of the depths of love. Love'...

Composer's note:'Ring the bells was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Choir, which also sang the piece's premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall on December 20, 2017, conducted by Toby Purser. Th...

Commissioned for Selwyn College, Cambridge. This is MacMillan's second setting of the sublime poem by John Donne (1572-1631), 'Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate of he...

Commissioned by the Cathedral Organists' Association [UK] in celebration of its centenary, and first performed at the Association's annual meeting in York Minster in May 2019. Text: Magnificat and Nun...

Da pacem Domine ('Give peace, Lord') is a message rooted in the heart of faith, making this piece suitable for any and all liturgical occasions. The setting was written at a time of great sorrow, when...

A beautiful short setting of the ordinary of the Latin mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus, and Agnus Dei) by emerging Cornish composer Becky McGlade. The Kyrie finds beauty in its simplicity, w...

A contemplative and affecting setting of the opening two verses of Psalm 91, which tells of God's protection for those who follow Him, by Cornish composer Becky McGlade, one of the fine emerging voice...

A reflective setting of the one of the Marian antiphons (‘Hail, Queen of Heaven') by emerging composer Kerensa Briggs. A continuous, largely homophonic choral texture underpins the work, with rich har...

A tender shoot is a new setting of a 15th century German poem, poetized by Otto Goldschmidt and translated into English by William Bartholomew in the 19th century. The setting was commissioned by the...

O magnum mysterium was written in 2013 and is dedicated to Dawn Herbert, the composer's ex-wife and the mother of his son, Reginald. It was written while staying at her family's farm in Cambridgeshire...

Composer’s note In Sancta Mater, the fifth movement of my Stabat Mater, we comfort not only Mother Mary but all parents who have lost their own child, and we cry and we pray with them. Musically, the...

Composer’s note This piece is an adaptation of the instrumental movement ‘Reflection’ in my large-scale work The Stranger. I was inspired by research showing the emotional effect of having eye contact...

Composer’s note Eja Mater is a prayer for comfort to all parents who have lost their own child but also expresses love from parents to their children. Originally written for choir and orchestra as par...