James MacMillan Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

Setting of the traditional vesper hymn ('Hail, O Star of the ocean'), commissioned by Christopher Gray and the Choir of Truro Cathedral. The texture is homophonic and sustained, with much use of pedal...

Setting for double SATB chorus a cappella of an anonymous medieval text about Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians.

This work was composed in 2020 and was commissioned by the Lord Burghley 500 Foundation for a Service of Thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of William Ce...

Setting of Latin text combining a versicle at Matins on the Feast of St Andrew with a fragment of a prayer attributed to him.

Short motet commissioned by St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow-on-the-Hill, UK, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. MacMillan chose a text which is entirely appropriate to young people about to be...

This is an approachable and affecting setting of a devotional poem by the revered Carmelite nun St Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97). The choral writing, marked ‘placid’, comprises simple four-part homopho...

This short but awe-inspiring ceremonial piece was commissioned by Westminster Cathedral for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. Organ, brass and timpani thunder around the sung text, ‘You are Pete...

A welcome addition to this composer’s output of secular choral works, Oh Sleep! is a beautiful and lyrical setting which will be appreciated by choirs both amateur and professional. It was composed to...

Composed for performance at the 2022 Cumnock Tryst, the community-based annual music festival established by James MacMillan in the Ayrshire town where he grew up. MacMillan comments that “my earliest...

This carol, extracted from James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio (2020), is an arrangement of the traditional Hebridean melody, ‘Tàladh Chrìosda’, with English text derived from the Scottish Gaelic of...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. The Latin text is taken from the Graduale Romanum. The pieces are suitable for intermediate stan...

A short anthem commissioned to mark the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams in 2003. Accompanied by a series of Alleluias, it features a text by George Herbert (1593-1633) fou...

The movements set are Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Benedictus (together), Acclamation and Agnus Dei. With the inclusion of a Gloria this is a more extended setting than the St Anne's Mass, and the canto...

...here in hiding... is MacMillan's most ambitious vocal work exploring medieval themes, both musically and poetically. St Thomas Aquinas's text Adoro te devote is set both in Latin and in the English...

Since publication in 1997, MacMillan's The Galloway Mass has established itself as one of the most popular congregational mass settings in churches of various denominations around the world. With the...

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