Nico Muhly's Looking Up for SATB and Orchestra. Programme note:Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra and is in three sections played without pause. In the 16th century a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are …

Margaret Rizza is a natural melodist and this setting Mass of the Bread of Life meets the twin demands of parish liturgical music: spiritual depth and accessibility.This new and enlarged edition includes theCommon Worship texts set for congregation and organ or keyboard throughout with optional choral descants and instrumental parts.

This fine book of Psalms and Gospel Acclamations is designed for use with the Common Worship. The tones and responses written for Cantor and Congregation with optional instrumental descants are tuneful straightforward anddiatonically based. They provide practical and attractive settings for Sundays and Principal Feasts.

Seasonal Piano Solos with Optional Instruments-This volume of beloved Christmas carols is a two-in-one sensation. Pianists may play the arrangements as piano solos or perform them in tandem with the optional instrumental descants for something truly special. This unique formatdoubles your peformance options and makes this compilation an excellent value. From tender carols of reflections to sparkli…

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER (Arr.). Standing in the Need of Prayer is a simple, meditative melody with a pleasing, repetitive chord sequence. This arrangement gives you a chance to ‘crank it up a gear’ after the modulation; there is also an opportunity to thicken out the vocal harmonies towards the end with some optional alto notes. Once singers get more confident, you may wish to experiment with oth…

Welcome Don Hart to our Shawnee community of writers with this combination of a classic carol and a beloved classical theme from Smetana's tone poem “The Moldeau.” This theme is full of pathos and ideally suited to thelanguishing cry of Israel as it waits for its Reedemer. The use of lovely descants from C-instruments and B-flat instruments adds to the mystery and longing. Prayerful.

Paperback-This setting for SATB and organ uses a familiar Provencal tune. It is sung mostly in unison and in octaves with one stanza richly harmonized. The piece ends with one of Baldwin's characteristically lovely descants.

Charles Offer arranged by Benoy. Fifteen foreign folk songs arranged for two descants with optional parts for treble and tenor instruments.

57 well known pieces for flute-Winner Scores All For Descant Flute is a song book with a vast collection of 75 well known unaccompanied tunes for Flute edited by Peter Lawrance. Winner Scores All For Descant Flute contains melodies and theme tunes that are incredibly recognisable such as Waltzing Matilda The Addams Family Coronation Street Theme and many more.

Douglas Coombes' Simply A Rag for Descant Recorder and Piano contains original pieces in a wide variety of styles - from Simply A Rag and Little Jazz Waltz to the bouyant sprightly Staccato Polka’ and the loose quality of Impressions of an Enchanted Forest there is much here to enjoy. The Piano accompaniments are straightforward and there is plenty of opportunity to add extra depth and inter…

Uses: Easter Scripture: Matthew 28:5-6; Luke 24:1-3 Celebrating the triumphant news of Christ's resurrection this jubilant anthem calls “Easter people” to sound the news that Jesus isalive! A recurring refrain of “alleluias” follows each verse and also provides an optional descant as the song nears its conclusion. A simple part for 3 optional handbells heightens the sense …

Song To The Moon by Alan Bullard for Unison Voices with optional Descant and Piano.This attractive piece for Unison Voices celebrates the wonder of the 'bright new moon'. The composer's own text based on traditional Hebridean poems is set to a simple flowing melody and the optional descant in the final section soars over the melody and introduces an echo effect. The Piano accompaniment suppo…

Par ADAMS SALLY. A rich and varied set of pieces specially selected as your very first Descant Recorder solos. 28 melodies have been selected by Sally Adams to give you the best very start in your solo Recorder playing. The pieces vary from waltzes and minuets to Jazzy solos and even Hungarian folk tunes. The collection represents the ideal opportunity to develop your performance confidence and mu…

For Oboe Or Descant Rec.-Neil Butterworth: Pastorale for Descant Recorder (Oboe or Clarinet in Bb) and Piano

CHORAL SS & PIANO (OPT DESCANT RECORDER). An evocative setting of mysterious words by Harold Munro this colourful song blends an easy melodic line with rich harmonies and spoken effects with an optional descant recorder part (played from the score).