SKU: A0.1310238

Hey! Do you want to learn how to sing Schubert's Ave Maria for the SSTT choir? It's your lucky day! 🎵

Schubert Ave Maria • SSTT (soprano I • soprano II • tenor I • tenor II) choir sheet music with piano accompaniment

About the song

Ave Maria by Franz Schubert, composed in 1825, is one of his most famous pieces. It's often associated with the Catholic prayer, but it's actually based on a work by the Scottish poet Walter Scott.

Originally part of Ellens Gesang III, this gentle, melancholic melody with Latin lyrics invoking the Virgin Mary has been adapted for various instruments and choirs.

Schubert didn't anticipate it becoming widely known as Ave Maria; the original title was Ellens Gesang III: Hymn to the Virgin.

This beautiful composition is performed in various settings and continues to inspire listeners, showcasing Schubert's brilliance as a composer.

SKU: A0.1310237

Hey! Do you want to learn how to sing Schubert's Ave Maria for the SSTT choir? It's your lucky day! 🎵

Schubert Ave Maria • SSTT (soprano I • soprano II • tenor I • tenor II) choir sheet music with easy piano accompaniment

About the song

Ave Maria by Franz Schubert, composed in 1825, is one of his most famous pieces. It's often associated with the Catholic prayer, but it's actually based on a work by the Scottish poet Walter Scott.

Originally part of Ellens Gesang III, this gentle, melancholic melody with Latin lyrics invoking the Virgin Mary has been adapted for various instruments and choirs.

Schubert didn't anticipate it becoming widely known as Ave Maria; the original title was Ellens Gesang III: Hymn to the Virgin.

This beautiful composition is performed in various settings and continues to inspire listeners, showcasing Schubert's brilliance as a composer.

SKU: A0.1380659

Here is the lead sheet version of Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? as heard on my YouTube channel. This version is in C major to match the original recording, and includes a full two-page version with the different chords for each verse as well as a condensed version that has everything on one page for convenience in a worship team binder.

This version of the classic Good Friday hymn has beautiful chords to accompany the solemn, simple melody and point towards the deep meaning and solemnity of Holy Week. It works well as a solo or congregational song for any Easter service, particularly for Good Friday or Maundy Thursday. 

Also available, by searching Stacey Plays Hymns and the song title on this site, are the following versions:

Full piano and vocal arrangement in C major to match the original recording 
Full piano and vocal arrangement in E Flat and G Major to match different vocal ranges
A simple guitar lead sheet version
Solo piano version for a prelude/postlude, or communion interlude

For other formats including large print, or extended choral harmony versions, please write me at staceyplayshymns@gmail.com and I'll be glad to make them especially for you. Purchase includes a free license for one church service with under 300 people, with proper attribution and credit in any printed or online materials. For a license to use this work on a larger scale, please contact me for permission and other usage details including lyrics formatted for printing in church bulletins or for powerpoint. Please let me know if there is any other way I can serve you as a congregation or fellow music/choir director as I endeavour to write several new choral anthems per year, along with my other recording work.

Thank you for supporting modern hymnwriters and musicians!

SKU: A0.550708

The Cello Choir Christmas Book

Christmas Reharmonizations by James M. Guthrie. The Cello Choir Christmas Book is a collection of the 18 Most Famous Christmas Songs of all time with new and surprising harmony.

Format

First of all, your cello choir can perform the Cello Choir Christmas Book directly from the score. This is easy because each song is only two pages long, hence there are no page turns.  Alternatively, this download includes a full set of parts. So various combinations are also possible: e.g. cello 1 & 2  read from the score on one stand, while cello 3 & 4 use the parts on a separate stands. The Cello Choir Christmas Book is available in whatever format works best for your particular ensemble.

Performance

This collection of the most famous 18 Christmas songs can be performed as a medley as written. Moreover, selected songs from the Cello Choir Christmas Book could be chosen as the last verse of a hymn presentation. In this case, just play the usual arrangement from the hymnal for the first verses, then switch to this arrangement for the final verse. This adds a great deal of energy and unexpected adventure to your performance. Each song could be repeated depending upon the length of time required. This is a very versatile collection. Suitable for Christmas parties or receptions, church services, and receptions, nightclubs, and school presentations. Also, they are very easy to perform or even sight-read.

Music

Each song in the Cello Choir Christmas Book is adventurously reharmonized, but the melody always remains perfectly intact. This makes it easy for anyone to sing along. Moreover, the songs end properly in the correct key so as to add an element of familiarity and closure. Tempo markings occur at the beginning of each song, but you can adjust these to your liking. Articulations are carefully calculated to emphasize the characteristics of stringed instruments.

Contents

1. Veni, veni, Emmanuel (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel)
2. Helmsley (Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending)
3. Antioch (Joy to the World)
4. Carol (It Came Upon a Midnight Clear)
5. Es ist ein Ros (Lo, How a Rose)
6. Gloria
7. God Rest You Merry
8. Greensleeves
9. In dulci jubilo (In Thee is Gladness)
10. Mendelssohn (Hark the Herald Angels Sing)
11. Personet hodie
12. The First Noel
13. Salzburg (At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing)
14. Three Kings of Orient
15. Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)
16. St Louis (O Little Town of Bethlehem)
17. Away in a Manger
18. Stille Nacht (Silent Night)

Score: 36 pages, Total duration with no repeats: ca. 14:00

SKU: A0.730388

The beloved hymn with the words of F. E. Weatherly and music of Stephen Adams (Michael Maybrick). Here arranged for low voice (Key of G, range B to D), SATB Chorus and Full Orchestral accompaniment. Can be used with any JNH arrangement of The Holy City in the corresponding key.

A few archaic words and harmonies updated to speak more to a contemporary audience without losing the tradition of the piece. Use this emotional and triumphant anthem for a grand finale to Easter Sunday services or funerals, or any time of the year.

Instruments: Pic, Fl12, Ob12, EH, ClarBb12, Bsn12, Hrn F 12,Trpt Bb 12, Trmb 12, Tba, Timp, BassDrm, Hand cym, Snare/chimes, Harp, soloist, SATB choir, strings.

(Duration: 7:13)

Piano vocal score to this arrangement is sold separately.