Oxford University Press

Chilcott's four-movement setting of the Latin Gloria will be welcomed by choirs looking for an uplifting and jubilant concert work. It features a driving 'Gloria', a tender yet majestic 'Domine Deus',...

There are three songs making up this cycle entitled Western Songs - 'Buffalo Gals', 'Green Grow the Lilacs', and 'The Ol' Chisholm Trail'. The arrangements by turn spin contrapuntal and antiphonal tex...

Here, Vaughan Williams's arrangement of this well-known carol has been reworked into a setting for SATB chorus with an optional soloist. Offprinted from Vaughan Williams for Choirs 1.

This joyful carol triumphantly proclaims the Christmas message and features changing metres and contrasting textures throughout. This is an offprint from Carols for Choirs 6.

With its evocative piano accompaniment, this piece is wonderfully understated and sincere, in keeping with the sentiment of the original, and is sure to raise a tear or two from any audience. The acco...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Anthems 2, 'This day' is a gentle anthem which sets a Jewish text adapted by the composer. Scored for SATB and piano, it creates a prayerful atmosphere with an elegant...

Chilcott sets the melody of this traditional American spiritual against a whispered accompaniment in the lower parts. Richly scored for voices, this classic arrangement creates an atmosphere of magica...

In Second Still Life the play on the word second is very apt. Not only is it scored for just two instruments (although there is also an optional tam-tam part) but the interval of a second is explored...

The harmonic beauty and expressive lines found in this motet emulate the devout text of the ever-popular Eucharistic hymn O sacrum convivium.

The popular John Rutter Christmas carol with piano accompaniment. Orchestral scores and parts are also availble on hire, as well as versions for SSAA (W76), and unison voices (U133). Offprinted from t...

Originally published in Sun, Moon, Sea, and Stars, 'Come back!' sets the composer's own text inspired by a poem from the Seminole tradition. This vibrant piece offers syncopated rhythms, jazzy harmoni...

Also available in Carols for Choirs 2 and 100 Carols for Choirs

This gentle arrangement of Will L. Thompson's words and melody (1880) is ideal for upper-voice choirs of all levels of experience. The melody is sympathetically treated, with simple vocal harmonizatio...

From Psalm 33 (opening phrase to be played on trumpets or organ)

This radiant anthem was commissioned for the celebrations for Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee. Todd employs arching melodies and beautifully simple harmonies, underpinned by a gentle organ accompaniment...

Originally published in Jazz in Autumn, this well-loved traditional tune is given a jazzy twist, with rich harmonies and free-flowing rhythms.

A piano transcription, made by the composer himself, of Rutter's much-loved setting of these words of blessing from Numbers 6: 24. Suitable for pianists at early intermediate level, and clearly presen...

A piano transcription, made by the composer, of this secular carol, a true celebration of all that we love about the festive season. Suitable for pianists at early intermediate level, and clearly pres...

Processional bustles with cheerful positivity throughout, its rondo-like structure clarified by the memorability of its abundant melodies. The harmony is modal to begin with, but moves from this delib...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's secular text concerning music's omnipresence ('But in the darkest, meanest things there always something sings') is set with affecting and arresting simplicity.

An arrangement of the expressive 'Sweet was the song', a movement from the large-scale work 'On Christmas Night', for solo voice and piano. An optional second voice may join with a counter-melody (the...

Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for SATB, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 trombones or 2 horns, bass trombone and optional tuba), timpani, percussion and organ. An alternative orchestral accompa...

The tragically early death of Kenneth Leighton robbed cathedral music of one of its most individual voices. This piece is a compositional showcase: textural inventiveness, motivic cunning, and bristli...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this majestic piece contrasts a triumphal opening and ending section with a more reflective central section. Suitable for pla...