Novello Choral Pops

This Christmas classic was a hit in the early sixties with its surf rock feel and light-hearted lyrics of Santa's beloved sleigh. The song, coined and originally sung by the Beach Boys, is a fun take...

With its sumptuous, layered harmonies this beautiful choral arrangement of White Christmas is the ideal piece for choruses seeking an impressive centrepiece for their festive programme. Arranged by C...

With its sumptuous, layered harmonies this beautiful choral arrangement of White Christmas is the ideal piece for choruses seeking an impressive centrepiece for their festive programme. Arranged for S...

From carol singing to the concert hall, this wonderful arrangement of We Wish You A Merry Christmas is perfect for choruses seeking to bring some traditional seasonal joy to their festive repertoire....

See Amid The Winter's Snow was originally composed by hymn writer Edward Caswall with music by John Goss. Choruses will enjoy this jazzy, gospel-style arrangement of the classic carol - a wonderful re...

Ella Fitzgerald's When Santa Got Stuck Up The Chimney is a popular and upbeat Christmas classic. Choruses can enjoy the piece's sense of festive fun as a humorous addition to their seasonal repertoire...

We associate a title like this with Norwegian national romantic music like the music of Edvard Grieg. In this piece, the melody used 'sag du nokke til kjerringa mi', a traditional melody Grieg used in...

Dag Wirén (1905-1986) got his breakthrough as a composer in 1937 with Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 11 - his most played and popular piece. He mainly wrote instrumental music including five symph...

Take the 'A' Train is a jazz standard written by Billy Strayhorn for Duke Ellington and his Duke Ellington Orchestra. Today, it is known as the signature tune of the Ellington orchestra and arguably t...

Fest was commissioned by Hardanger Musikkfest and first performed by Ullensvang Skulemusikklag in May 2002. This little overture was the first piece in a series of pieces for schoolband.

It is amazing how fast this melody composed in 1976 became a standard. Most of all because it is really fun to play. It is very playable for most bands, where not all the musicians are on the same lev...

Be Thou My Vision' is the eldest religious song from Irland used in Norway. The lyrics was originally written in Old Irish and translated to English in 1905 and versified in 1912. The text from 1912 i...

Hymn of Lofoten is composed by Dag Kajander from Kabelvag in Lofoten, a part of Northern Norway. Kajander is composer, singer and author of books for children. Hymn from Lofoten was written in 1979. T...

'How I love the name of Jesus' is a psalm of David Welander. He wrote it on the train home to Lorenskog in January 1923, and completed it out overnight. It was printed in the magazine 'Krigsropet' sho...

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) composed six sonatas for organ. This collection of sonatas have been very important for the development of the repertoire for solo organ from the year they were...

Sledgehammer was released both as single record and included in the album 'So' by British artist Peter Gabriel in 1986. The song is the biggest hit to this day by Gabriel. The song is inspired by the...

Elegi was composed by the Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin in 1979 for the trumpet and organ in memory of his sister who died very young. The piece was performed at the funeral in the old Lom Stavkirke,...

The latin title 'Sollicitus' means upset or uneasy is important in terms of the character and form of the work. This work contains several different pcarts, all of them based around a fanfare-like the...

The new theatre- and concert hall Kilden was inaugurated in 2012 in the Norwegian city of Kristiansand. A part of the inauguration was one week of Music Festival who also included amateurs in bands, c...

Trumpetino opens with a one-note 'fanfare', which is being used as a main theme. Different time signatures and rhythmic patterns are supporting this theme. The balance between the soloist and band are...

New versjon made to the opning concert at the Borealis Festival in 2023 with Sjøforsvarets musikkorps, conducted by Halldis Rønning Instrumentation: military band. The Sound Factory Made to the series...

We associate a title like this with Norwegian national romantic music like the music of Edvard Grieg. In this piece, the melody used 'Sag du nokke til kjerringa mi', a traditional melody Grieg used in...

Die Soloparts in dem Stück können otional auch von den einzelnen Registern gesungen werden

The composition consists mainly of little bits put together in different ways, creating melodies, scales and harmonies. The bits are, if you like, small fragments in musical motion or context, -hence...