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From the collection Jazz in Springtime, 'Up on the Hill' is a contemporary lyrical jazz ballad by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles. An intermediate level piece, this is an engaging addition to the r...

Originally published in Jazz in Autumn, this is a lovely piece with swung semiquavers and expressive melodies with a relaxing feel.

Originally published in Jazz in Autumn, this is a beautiful original waltz with swung quavers and lilting melodies.

From the collection Jazz in Springtime, 'May Song' is an arrangement of a popular folk tune by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles. Introducing folk harmony while preserving the lyricism of the origina...

From the collection Jazz on a Summer's Day, 'Sundown' is a fun, loping jazz waltz. The laid-back swing is perfectly evocative of a summer's day, and makes an engaging addition to the repertoire of int...

From the collection Jazz in Springtime, 'Flores' is an intermediate level, contemporary jazz-waltz by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles. Inspired by Miles Davis and Chick Corea, and with a written-ou...

From the collection Jazz in Springtime, 'Mwanzo' is a jazz township groove written by celebrated jazz pianist Nikki Iles, inspired by Abdullah Ibrahim. An intermediate level piece, this is an engaging...

Bringen Sie karibischen Schwung und sonnige Rhythmen an Ihr Klavier! Mit „Guava“ von Oxford University Press – entnommen aus dem beliebten Sammelband „Jazz on a Summer's Day“ – erwartet Sie ein mitrei...

A pupil of Clara Schumann, Leonard Borwich (1868-1925) published this simple and effective transcription of 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' from Cantata No. 147 in the year of his death. Offprinted from...

This transcription of the Sarabande from the Cello Suite BWV 1008 featuring haunting suspensions was made by Leonard Borwich (1868-1925), who was a pupil of Clara Schumann. Offprinted from OUP's colle...

Harriet Cohen (1895-1967) is chiefly associated with Bach transcriptions through the eponymous OUP collection A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen of 1932, but she made some of her own as well. 'Ertödt' uns...

Bach's tenor aria from Canata No. 4 ('Christ lag in Todes Banden') is reworked and arranged here for piano by Gerald M. Cooper (1892-1947), featuring creative engagement with the original texture. Off...

This mellifluous arrangement of the tenor aria from Cantata No. 85 ('Seht, was die Liebe tut') by Hubert Foss (1899-1953), the first music editor at the Oxford University Press, features a delicate am...

Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan' is the finale to the first part of Cantata No. 75 and is transcribed here for piano by Herbert Murrill (1909-1952), who moved in the same musical circles as Britten...

Commonly known as the 'deathbed chorale', the last of Bach's Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes is carefully arranged for piano here by Dorothea Salmon and was first published in 1932. Originally from th...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this arrangement of the overture to Handel's Saul is created by W. T. Best and Robert Gower. Suitable for players of intermed...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this joyful piece is evocative of a fanfare, and is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

The text of Omnes nu laet ons gode loven is from an old Flemish carol, and is a mixture of Old Flemish and Latin (presented here alongside an English text by Jeremy Jackman).

The melody and text of this traditional carol were first collected in 1968 by the composer Peteris Plakidis, in Katlakalns (a district of Riga). It is here arranged for unaccompanied SSA voices by Sel...

The first section of this original carol by Rosephanye Powell is composed in the style of an African-American spiritual, following a call-and-response pattern, while the second section is in a jubilan...

Acalentándo Jesús is a gentle lullaby for the newborn baby Jesus by Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar. Here the original text by Gerson Galle is presented alongside English words by Jeremy Jackman.

Scored for unaccompanied SSAA voices, this vibrant setting of Isaiah 9: 6 draws on the rhythms and textures of modern Nigerian art music in a setting full of dynamic contrast. A version for SATB voice...

Perfect for celebrating Pentecost, this joyous anthem on the theme of the Holy Spirit centres around the Veni Creator Spiritus plainchant, fragments of which have been skilfully developed to create an...

Hyun Chul Lee's carol Ju Nashuhtdah welcomes the newborn king with the jubilant acclamation 'Jesus is born'. Using Korean traditional rhythms, and a pentatonic melody, he creates a bright feeling of e...

In this carol for unaccompanied SSA voices Séamas de Barra sets Séamus Ó Néill's translation of I sing of a maiden (both version of the text are presented in the score).