for vocal soloists or SATB choir and orchestra or reduced orchestra Serenade to Music is sublime - one of the most stunningly beautiful musical creations of the 20th century. This choral meditation on the nature of music and its power to enrapture is a setting of text from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. This tender and much-loved work was composed in 1938 in honour of Sir Henry Wood. It was written for 16 soloists and orchestra but may also be sung by four soloists and chorus, or by mixed-voice chorus. This beautifully presented edition includes an introduction by Michael Kennedy. Also available for full orchestra without choir.

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This is a powerful setting of a darkly vivid poem by Edwin Brock, which explores the theme of the futility of war. Scored for male voices, with jumpy rhythms and chromatic harmonies, the music is vigorous, exciting, and menacing.

Vaughan Williams fist encountered the old English folk song Dives and Lazarus when he was 21, and here presents five variants that are, in his own words, 'not exact replicas of traditional tunes but rather reminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others'. The work was premiered in Carnegie Hall as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair, and is a wonderful example of the sumptuous string textures and modal tonalities that have become the composer's trademarks.

(Piano Collection). This new volume in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes a large amount of music at a value price. There are new urtext editions of seven pieces included, not edited by Joseffy in his original Schirmer editions: Prelude in A-flat Major (1834), Nocturne in C-sharp minor (1830), Nocturne in C minor (1837), and Waltzes in A-flat Major (1830), E-flat Major (1830), E-flat Major (1840), and A minor (1843).

for SATB unaccompanied This luminescent setting of 'O lux beata Trinitas' (ascribed to St Ambrose) uses a variety of textures and vocal techniques to reflect the joy expressed in the text - from simple homophony to improvisatory techniques and free metre. The piece culminates with a short declamatory tenor solo, echoed by a solo soprano, before a peaceful extended 'Amen'.

for SATB unaccompanied or with guitar This is an elegant and accessible SATB arrangement of the beautiful 'Con amores, la mi madre' by the Spanish Renaissance composer Juan de Anchieta. Underpinned by a flowing guitar accompaniment (optional), Chilcott's arrangement is rhythmically interesting and melodious, and the text may be sung in either Spanish or English. An ideal concert work for choirs looking for something a little different.

for SATB unaccompanied This vibrant setting of Isaiah 9:6 draws on the rhythms and textures of modern Nigerian art music. The predominantly homophonic texture is interspersed with solo lines, in a setting full of dynamic contrast. Originally published in World Carols for Choirs (SATB).

for SSA and piano or strings Versions for unison and SATB are also available. Instrumental material is available on hire.

New critical edition of complete work of 12c Occitanian troubadour Marcabru, crucial figure in development of European courtly lyric. One of the earliest troubadours, Marcabru was a remarkable artist and entertainer, and a figure of crucial importance to the development of the European courtly lyric. His blistering attacks on contemporary court society reveal anintellectual insider's view of the clash between clerical morality and the emerging secular ethics of love and courtesy. His fervent, often acerbic engagement with contemporary events also provides a unique southern perspective on political upheavals and crusading movements in twelfth-century Occitania and northern Spain. This new critical edition, the first for nearly 100 years, makes his complete corpus accessible to a wide readership, supplying translations, full critical apparatus, and copious textual notes, with a substantial glossary of Marcabru's extraordinarily inventive vocabulary. The introduction supplies historical information, discussion of the poet's language, andan analysis of the manuscript transmission. It also raises fresh issues of troubadour versification techniques in this formative period, and engages in a new way with the current debate about editorial methodology and medieval textual criticism. [Leaflet blurb - see AN]

Voiceworks at Christmas is an inspired collection of pieces for Christmas, ranging from plainsong to jazz carols, gospel songs and folk pieces to well-known carols in sparkling new arrangements, and brand new carols by living composers. With excellent practical rehearsal notes and an accompanying CD, Voiceworks at Christmas meets the needs of all choral groups and overflows with festive cheer.

Die FAK-sangbundel se eerste verskyning in 1937 was ’n belangrike kulturele gebeurtenis. Sedertdien was dit so wyd in aanvraag dat dit vier uitgawes en vyf herdrukke beleef het. In latere uitgawes is liedere wat nie veel aftrek gekry het nie weggelaat en gewildes wat vroeer ontbreek het, opgeneem. Tans word dit beskou as die mees omvattende bundel Afrikaanse lirieke met bladmusiek en dit dien as verwysingswerk vir ’n groot aantal kulturele organisasies, koormeesters en skole. Dit is voorsien van ’n register volgens liedere se titels en eerste reels sowel as ’n rubriekindeling, waaronder vaderlandsliedere, natuurlirieke, liefdes-, kleuter- en slaapliedjies en gewyde liedere. Bekende Afrikaans digters en komponiste se talente word hier saamgevoeg, sowel as sensitief vertaalde Afrikaanse weergawes van wereldwye gunstelinge.

So this is permanence, edited by Jon Savage with a foreword by Deborah Curtis, presents the intensely personal writings of one of the most enigmatic and influential songwriters and performers of the late twentieth century, Joy Division's Ian Curtis. The songs of Joy Division, infused with the energy of punk but steeped in a resigned longing, were born of Manchester in the late seventies - a once flourishing industrial city in decline. They were the songs too of Ian Curtis's inner tragedies, as he battled depression, epilepsy and debilitating stage fright. Ian Curtis committed suicide in 1980, on the eve of the band's first American tour. Interspersed with the lyrics are previously unpublished facsimile pages of Ian's notebooks, which throw his highly emotive lyrics into fascinating relief and cast light on the creative process of this singularly poetic songwriter.

In which the writings of the authors Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are gathered together. This commonplace book includes faxes, notes, fledgling lyrics, sketches, lists of all kinds and scribblings towards nirvana, as were sent between the two authors during the period 1999 to 2000 during the creation of the Radiohead albums Kid A and Amnesiac. This is a document of the creative process and a mirror to the fears, portents and fantasies invoked by the world as its citizens faced a brave new millennium.

for SA and organ or piano This uplifting anthem combines two well-known texts that are commonly read at weddings: 1 Corinthians 13:13 ('And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.') and Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ('For love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.'). Retaining the flowing organ part of the original SATB version, the music perfectly mirrors the message of the texts, with melodic vocal lines building to full homophonic textures at the climax. Faith, hope, and love remain is suitable for use not only as part of a wedding ceremony but also for general services and concerts.

CEOL AN PH OBAIRE MUSIC OF THE PIPERS is a collection of traditional Irish dance tunes and piping pieces notated from the playing of famous players of the Irish uilleann pipes. It includes informative notes on the music, and pictures of the two dozen pipers covered by the collection. The uilleann pipes are the iconic instrument of Ireland, and the names of the players who have become masters of it are celebrated worldwide names like S amus Ennis and Willie Clancy; the traveller brothers Johnny and Felix Doran; and Patsy Touhey and Barney Delaney, who each achieved celebrity status in early twentieth-century America. Along with these are many other top-rank players known only to the enthusiast, but deserving of investigation by all lovers of traditional music. The music includes all manner of dance tunes, as well as several pieces items that pipers played just for listening, including the well-known Fox Chase which describes musically the progress of a foxhunt and the death of the fox, and the descriptive piece Gol na mBan san r ( The weeping of the women amid the slaughter ), which describes the aftermath of the Battle of Knockannus (1647) and which, having been recorded on cylinder from a Kerry piper in 1899 is the oldest surviving recording of Irish traditional music. The dates of the performances from which the music was notated span almost one and a half centuries, from the performances noted by Lord Rossmore from the Galway piper Paddy Conneely in the mid-nineteenth century, through the collections of the Feis Ceoil movement, to the performances recorded by piping enthusiasts in the 1970s. The music and commentary was prepared for publication by Breand n Breathnach and Pat Mitchell, both authorities in the field of Irish music, and was edited by Terry Moylan.