Intermediate Sheet Music from Boosey & Hawkes

While the melody used in this setting is entirely new, it is somewhat reminiscent of an old Scottish air. The violin obligato underscores the great poignancy of Robert Burns' lyrics.

A flowing piano accompaniment sets the gentle, expectant mood of this piece, returning in each section with further development and ornamentation, inspiring and deepening a sense of awe and Divine ecs...

A bittersweet old Cuban song which expresses a longing for the days when “the pearl” - the island of Cuba - was free. The lamenting text (which can be sung in Spanish or English) is set to...

Chorpartitur - mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probenzwecken

Shakespeare's familiar text from Twelfth Night about unrequited love is expressed through varying levels of dissonance.

This piece is known in a variety of melodies and dialects in the Ukranian oral tradition.

This piece is one you might do in the fall of the school year, when you have new and inexperienced choristers to train. The added counterpoint at the opening, and few forays into three-part “har...

The mood and texture of this piece is simple, limpid, and serene: the peace that passes understanding. Every line in every voice, no matter how understated, is of melodic interest and emotional import...

Scored for large wind ensemble by Donald Hunsberger. Originally composed for Brass Band (1957).

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One of Grieg's most popular orchestral selections, the Homage March from Sigurd Jorsalfar is stirring and noble. A magnificent addition to any band's music library!

Predating the well-known Bethlehem Down by just a few years, As dew in Aprylle is one of several choral works by Warlock to draw on texts from the 15th century Sloane Manuscript, yet musically this wo...

Turnage's exquisite Three Night Carols demonstrate the composer's characteristic harmonic and melodic originality in miniature. The rich textures of the unaccompanied, mixed-voice Misere nobis (writte...

James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. This attractive five-minute Advent/Christmas carol for choir and organ sets a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts, a frequent collab...

These well-known words seem endlessly fruitful for the composer and conjure up such lovely images which strike each of us in our own way. For Paul Spicer it was the beauty of the language with its flo...

This carol sets the final three verses of Sara Teasdale’s light-hearted retelling of the nativity story, in which a host of angels arrive at the stable, and herald the birth with their joyful song. Th...

The text of this new carol, written by the composer, connects the miracle of the incarnation with the preciousness of God’s gift of our earthly home – the ‘miracle we share’ is both the natural enviro...

One of the lesser-known Mediaeval Christmas texts, starting ‘Als I lay on Yoolis Night, alone in my longing, me thought I saw a well fair sight, a may hiar child rokking’, provides the words for this...