Alan Bullard

This simple, uplifting anthem is characterized by flexible rhythms that sensitively complement the metre of the text and a beautifully reflective set of Amens at its close.

This is a striking setting of a poem by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, characterised by antiphonal exchanges between the upper and lower voices, and rich, ever-changing harmonies. Originally published in T...

This setting of the traditional hymn to 'Mary, the star of the sea' contrasts two moods and styles: the flowing simplicity of the 'Ave maris stella' refrain and the slightly faster and more homophonic...

This gentle and tender anthem is suitable for all church and cathedral choirs. Offprinted from the collection Alan Bullard Anthems.

This traditional Hebridean prayer has been given a calm and meditative setting. It calls for peace both locally and between nations. Offprinted from the collection Alan Bullard Anthems.

The original version of this anthem, for upper voices, was commissioned by St Margaret's School, Bushey, for its 250th anniversary. Offprinted from the collection Alan Bullard Anthems.

Christmas Nowells' by Alan Bullard for unaccompanied mixed voice choir SATB.

Bullard's carol for unaccompanied SATB chorus sets a Renaissance-period text by Ben Johnson.

For SATB unaccompanied or with percussion. This energetic and highly rhythmic arrangement of a 15th century carol uses a folksy call-and-response style, which helps the piece maintain its momentum rig...

This is a majestic anthem for SATB unaccompanied and suitable for a wide variety of occasions. The piece begins with an insistent, syncopated rhythm in the tenors and basses and is followed by a vigor...

Carol for S.A.T.B. Chorus, a cappella (Latin and English text)

Unaccompanied choral music for the more experienced choir. Three Poems of W B Yeats is one of the earliest works of Alan Bullard to enter the choral repertoire, and it received its first broadcast by...

Choristers of Flight, for mixed choir, comprises three colourful settings of nineteenth-century poetry focussing on different aspects of bird-song and flight. They have been performed by a number of c...

These seven piano pieces, of intermediate difficulty, represent different aspects of the twelve-bar blues structure, which originated in the southern states of the USA in the mid 19th century. Each is...

Alan Bullard's bestselling Joining The Dots series now includes this book for Grade 1 that helps to develop sight-reading skills for singers. By working through a vast number of creative exercises and...

Alan Bullard's bestselling Joining The Dots series now includes this book for Grade 2 that helps to develop sight-reading skills for singers. By working through a vast number of creative exercises and...

Alan Bullard's bestselling Joining The Dots series now includes this book for Grade 3 that helps to develop sight-reading skills for singers. By working through a vast number of creative exercises and...

Alan Bullard's bestselling Joining The Dots series now includes this book for Grade 4 that helps to develop sight-reading skills for singers. By working through a vast number of creative exercises and...

Alan Bullard's bestselling Joining The Dots series now includes this book for Grade 5 that helps to develop sight-reading skills for singers. By working through a vast number of creative exercises and...

This original composition combines several traditional proverbs , a quirky melody, a laid-back swing feel, a whispering section, and an immediate melodic 'hook'. The music is well-suited to the text a...

The title piece from a collection for upper voices, 'Hark, hark, the lark' is a setting by Alan Bullard of words from Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Scored for upper voices and piano, this serenely pastoral...

Presented here in a version for unison voices (with optional descant), this piece celebrates the wonder of the 'bright new moon'. The composer's own text, based on traditional Hebridean poems, is set...

The composer writes: 'Persistent Memory is a little six minute drama . . . although the piano begins as the more aggressive partner and triggers the violin into animation, it is in fact the piano that...

This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental colour. Both the singer and the audienc...

Density of light is an anthem that sets an evocative hymn by Thomas Troeger. The text is drawn from an Epiphany reading and explores the theme of the triumphing of light over darkness.