Intermediate Sheet Music from Oxford University Press

ABRSM's official Music Theory Practice Papers are essential resources for candidates preparing for ABRSM Music Theory exams. These Grade 5 Practice Papers reflect the new question types that have been...

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Piano Syllabus for 2019 & 2020, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing...

A setting of one of the seven Advent 'O' Antiphons, O Oriens makes use of luxurious and exotic harmonies, creating a shimmering texture. The focus on human enlightenment in winter's darkness means the...

This piece is a dynamic, uplifting, and highly popular jazz setting of the Latin mass, featuring driving grooves and blues harmonies, with provision for short piano solos (notated or improvised) and g...

Pop Goes the Cello is a dynamic set of ten original pieces suitable for intermediate players, featuring styles such as pop, rock, and Latin. These characterful vignettes are well suited to concert per...

This expressive Wedding anthem sets an extract from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. With chromatic inflections and gently arching vocal lines, the music perfectly reflects the text's emphasis o...

This anthem for unaccompanied choir juxtaposes the words of the Antiphon for the Washing of Feet on Maundy Thursday with 'The red rose whispers of passion' by the poet John Boyle O'Reilly. Jackson com...

This atmospheric setting of the celebrated poem 'April Rain Song' by (the Harlem Renaissance writer) Langston Hughes captures the sense of comfort and security while listening to rainfall. The ebb and...

Inspired by Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Vespers is a 12-movement English-language work in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Suited to concert and liturgical settings, it draws from a variety of Orth...

For double SATB chorus unaccompanied This is Stanford's extended Latin setting of this text, written in 1918 and acknowledged as its composer's finest a cappella choral work. Duration: 12 minutes Diff...

Written for St Cecilia's Day 1694, Purcell's popular Te Deum and Jubilate in D was the first work of its kind to be scored for orchestra, and it became the model for future settings of the text by Blo...

Words from Psalm 100 Duration: 3.5 minutes Difficulty: Moderately difficult

Jonathan Wikeley's choral arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs offers a new way to engage with these beautiful late works. The texts are by Ursula Vaughan Williams, and the set begins and...

Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement. For the first time, violinists can perform the original solo line as part of a string q...

Vaughan Williams's famous romance for solo violin and orchestra is given new life in this beautiful arrangement. For the first time, violinists can perform the original solo line as part of a string q...

This inventive work, composed in 2019, owes its title to that year's two great anniversaries connected to manned flight: the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and the 500th anniversary of the...

Not no faceless Angel is a beautifully reflective work. Originally commissioned by Joy Hill and the RCM Junior Department, the work is a sensitive setting of words by Tanya Lake. The themes of loss an...

Finzi's small and select output sadly includes no original solo organ music, and organists will find these arrangements by Robert Gower, Alan Ridout, and Philip Brunelle gratifyingly idiomatic and rew...

This important Requiem demonstrates Gabriel Jackson's gift for writing mesmerising choral music on a large scale. Combining sections of the traditional Requiem text with poems from other cultures and...

Setting an original Latin text by the Venerable Bede intertwined with an English translation, this piece is homophonic and by turns ecstatic and calmly contemplative. It is particularly suitable for A...

SSATB unaccompanied Harrap's inventive and dramatic setting of the well-known Eucharist hymn text provides a contemporary alternative to more familiar versions by Byrd, Mozart, and Elgar. In five unac...

I my Best-Beloved's am was written in 1999 for the BBC Singers and focuses on the theme of marriage, setting the nuptial responses from the old Tridentine Catholic marriage service and stanzas from Fr...

Thou, my love, art fair' was written for The King's Singers and first performed by the group on St Valentine's Day 2015. Setting the William Baldwin poem, Christ to his spouse, this delightful song ma...

This monumental cantata for massed forces was commissioned by David Hill and The Bach Choir and premiered as part of the 2012 BBC Proms. Setting a specially commissioned text by Charles Bennett, Chilc...

Based on the well-known poem by William Blake, this Christmas piece transports listeners with sounds of heavenly angels beckoning the little Lamb in layered melodic fragments that cascade through the...