SATB choir and organ - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q54420 Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. Composed by Julian Anderson. This edition: choral score. Choral Music of Our Time. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 9 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q54420. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q54420). English.Although I had already set separate Latin versions of both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, this is the first time I’ve made a setting in English of both texts for use at Evensong. I have often attended Evensong in the Cambridge college chapels: it’s a service whose meanings and spirituality are quite different from any other, and it has its own special atmosphere. Evensong’s coupling of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis texts is fascinating: the exuberant celebration of the former contrasts so marvellously with the intimate reflections of the latter. In my Evening Canticles I have tried to make the most of that contrast. The Magnificat is forceful, replete with sprung rhythms, polymeter, and bright harmonies showing off the brilliance of the choir. Some use is made (especially near the opening) of free rhythms in which every singer performs a passage at their own speed, creating a spray of sound. The Nunc Dimittis, on the other hand, is predominantly clear and transparent, even austere, allowing the singers to shape melodic lines with expression and lyricism, as befits the text. I was enormously excited to be invited to compose my Evening Canticles for Andrew Nethsingha and the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. I want to thank all the performers for giving the work such a splendid launch, and for the magnificent recording on this CD. The work is dedicated to Andrew Nethsingha. JA 2019.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1349231 Composed by Todd Marchand. Christian,Sacred,Traditional. 16 pages. Con Spirito Music #933976. Published by Con Spirito Music (A0.1349231). Three Evening Canticles were written as part of a setting of choral evensong for Church of the Holy Apostles - Anglican, Fort Worth, Texas. Metrical, mostly homophonic, and conservative in technical challenges and ranges, these canticles are accessible for small choirs and those of moderate ability, yet musically satisfying for large and accomplished groups. Phos Hilaron (“O Gladsome Light�) is one of the earliest known Christian hymns (ca. 3rd-4th century) recorded outside of the Bible. Intended to be sung at the kindling of lights in the evening, it is sometimes known as the “lamp-lighting hymn� and has been adopted by some Anglican bodies as an optional invitatory canticle immediately preceding the psalm(s) appointed for the day.Magnificat (The Song of Mary) is a scriptural canticle based on an account in the Gospel of Luke (1:46-55). Mary, the expectant mother of Jesus, visits her cousin  Elizabeth, the expectant mother of John the Baptist, who will prophetically proclaim the coming of the Messiah. Elizabeth praises Mary for her faith and subjection to God’s will, and Mary responds, “My soul doth magnify the Lord ... for he that is mighty hath magnified me ... and his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations.� The Magnificat is said or sung immediately after the first lesson (scripture reading) in the service of evening prayer. Nunc Dimittis (The Song of Simeon) is also a scriptural canticle taken from Luke (2:29-32).  Simeon, a devout Jew, had been promised by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Messiah. When Mary and Joseph bring the infant Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem for the ceremony of redemption of the firstborn son, Simeon takes the child into his arms and says “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace ... for mine eyes have seen thy salvation.� The Nunc Dimittis is said or sung after the second lesson in evening prayer.Texts for these settings are from The Book of Common Prayer (2019), Traditional Language Edition, according to the use of the Anglican Church in North America, and they are largely the texts of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England.©Copyright 2023 Todd Marchand / Con Spirito Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved. For more sacred, patriotic, folk, and holiday music for instruments and voices, visit www.conspiritomusic.com

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1084615 Composed by Alan Bullard. Children,Christmas,Classical. Octavo. 36 pages. Colne Edition / BullardMusic #688801. Published by Colne Edition / BullardMusic (A0.1084615). A seasonable celebration for SATB choir, optional youth choir and narrator, with piano (or brass quintet, or string quintet, score and parts available from www.colneedition.co.uk). Duration c. 25-30 minutes. This 8-movement cantata contrasts the cooking of the Christmas dinner with more reflective Christmas themes, with an opportunity for the audience to join in at the end. Ideal for Christmas concerts. We welcome you to our ‘Feast for Christmas’.  In the first movement, Christmas Welcome, the scene is set: but the key to a successful Christmas dinner is forward planning and in the second movement the Christmas Pudding is prepared in November, on ‘Stir-up Sunday’. In the third movement, Christmas Eve, the early twentieth century poet Robert Bridges looks back, on a frosty evening, from his own time to the very distant past, and considers what Christmas means to him. Then in the fourth movement, our Christmas Feast is prepared, and the Christmas Grace (fifth movement) is not forgotten.  It is of course impolite to sing during the actual Christmas Dinner itself, but towards the end of the meal the peace is rudely interrupted by the sixth movement, Christmas Crackers. The seventh movement, Christmas Spirit, reminds us, in seventeenth-century words, of how we should share our good fortune with those who have need of it, and in the last movement, Christmas Celebration, the audience is invited to join in, with the last verse of the well known ‘We wish you a merry Christmas’ Some separate movements are also available: Christmas Recipe, Festival (Christmas) Grace, and Christmas Celebration. Alan Bullard’s choral works are performed worldwide, and many have been recorded and broadcast. He has a growing reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to audiences. The Colne Choral Series contains a range of Bullard’s pieces for adult and youth choirs of all types, including cantatas and choral suites as well as individual movements. For full details please visit www.colneedition.co.uk or www.alanbullard.co.uk.

SATB choir divisi (a cappella) - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.50-8954-E Composed by Robert Buckley Farlee. 7 pages. MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music #50-8954-E. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music (MQ.50-8954-E). English.A moving poem by Jane Kenyon that describes the coming of evening and comforting presence of God.

SATB choir a cappella - Moderately Easy - Digital Download SKU: MQ.50-8610-2E Composed by Carl Schalk. Reformation. 6 pages. MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music #50-8610-2E. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music (MQ.50-8610-2E). Luther's Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer come from his Small Catechism and are intended to be used upon awaking and retiring each day. These choral settings may be used in a variety of ways and are metrical settings of these beautiful prayers. Part of the Lutheran Summer Music series.

SATB chorus and organ - Digital Download SKU: OX.9780193538177 Composed by Francis Jackson. Sheet music. Octavo. 15 pages. Oxford University Press Digital #9780193538177. Published by Oxford University Press Digital (OX.9780193538177). ISBN 9780193538177.For SATB and organ.

SATB choir (choir divisi) and piano - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.8833-E Composed by Gwyneth W. Walker. 34 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #8833-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.8833-E). English. Song of Solomon 8:6-7.The texts for this set of three songs are mostly from the 19th century, but the sentiments are ageless. The special imagery in each of the poems finds its way into the musical setting. Evening Song features moonlight sparkling on glimmering waves. The Cloths of Heaven has the lover yearning to give his beloved beautiful gifts. She Walks in Beauty provides a strong close to the set, with a quote from the Song of Solomon (Set Me As A Seal) as a coda.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1285994 By Various Artists. By Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers. Arranged by Paul M. Osborne. Broadway,Musical/Show,Standards. 6 pages. Paul M Osborne #877117. Published by Paul M Osborne (A0.1285994). A popular solo number from the well-known musical South Pacific, Some Enchanted Evening is a choral arrangement meant to expand upon the original to be suitable for choral groups and larger-scale performance settings. Perfect for Pops Concerts, this arrangement was premiered by the Opera San Luis Obispo Grand Chorus for their Symphony at Sunset in 2016.Voicing: SATB divisi + pianoPaul Osborne is a choral director, tenor soloist, and composer/arranger from California's Central Coast.  He received his degree at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, where he studied choral conducting with René Clausen.  He serves as Chorus Master for Opera San Luis Obispo and Central Coast Gilbert and Sullivan, is the founder and director of Resonance Vocal Ensemble, and is the former choral director at San Luis Obispo High School. He has been a passionate composer and arranger of choral music for over 20 years.

Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1288836 Composed by Todd Marchand. Christian,Sacred. 4 pages. Con Spirito Music #879689. Published by Con Spirito Music (A0.1288836). “Before the day draws near its ending� is an ideal selection for a late afternoon or early evening service of worship such as Evensong (Evening Prayer). A prayer of adoration, it was written by Anglican priest, hymnodist and hymnologist John Ellerton (1826-1893) and first published in the Nantwich (Cheshire, England) Festival Book, 1880, included in the Westminster Abbey Hymn Book in 1883, and re-published in numerous other hymnals. Ellerton is perhaps best known for a similar evening hymn text written a decade earlier, “The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended� (1870).©Copyright 2023 Todd Marchand / Con Spirito Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved. For more sacred, patriotic, folk, and holiday music for instruments and voices, visit www.conspiritomusic.com

Chorus - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PO-0002426 Evening - SATB. Composed by Ruth Morris Gray. Lawson Gould Choral. 11 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PO-0002426. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PO-0002426). UPC: 038081487144. Emily Dickinson.Using a text taken from Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems: Part Two---Nature, this intricate choral for treble voices weaves multiple melodies together in a stunning texture. Excellent for contest and concert events.Concert/Contest.

Chorus - Digital Download SKU: AX.00-PO-0003568 In the Evening - SATB. Composed by Jay Althouse. Secular Choral. 6 pages. Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music #00-PO-0003568. Published by Alfred Music - Digital Sheet Music (AX.00-PO-0003568). UPC: 038081491325.A unison pitch becomes a cluster chord and then blossoms into full contemporary choral harmony. Ample text painting, passing dissonance, and sensitive tempo and dynamic changes make this an excellent choice for accomplished choirs.Concert/Contest.

Cantor, assembly, organ or piano, with optional guitar, SATB choir, and descant - Medium - Digital Download SKU: MQ.80-416-038E Composed by Luke Mayernik. Psalm Setting, Responsorial Psalm/Canticle Setting, Holy Week/Three Days, 21st Century. 2 pages. MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music #80-416-038E. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers - Digital Sheet Music (MQ.80-416-038E). English. Psalms 116.From the collection The Five Graces Psalter: Lectionary Psalms. Responsorial Psalms for the entire three-year Lectionary cycle is a welcome and worthy addition to the repertoire of Lectionary Psalms. Award-winning composer and organist Luke Mayernik has crafted memorable settings infused with harmonic freshness and melodic appeal—settings that bear the weight of the emotion and liturgical importance of the psalms. Psalm tones are intended for SATB Choir as well as cantor, and the accompaniments are suitable for organ, piano, and/or guitar. ICEL refrains are paired with verses from The Revised Grail Psalms, approved for liturgical use in 2010.  Vocal or instrumental descants enhance many refrains. Effective accompaniments for piano or organ, with optional guitar.

By Victor C Johnson. For SATB choir, Piano, Optional Cello. Educational Octavo. Christmas. Published by Heritage Music Press

Choral Choir (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1093430 Composed by Alan Bullard. A Cappella,Classical,Contemporary,Holiday. Octavo. 37 pages. Colne Edition / BullardMusic #697511. Published by Colne Edition / BullardMusic (A0.1093430). Alan Bullard’s choral works are performed worldwide, and many have been recorded and broadcast. He has a reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to audiences. 'A Summer Garland' consists of five movements touching on the different aspects of summer, and has become a popular part of the repertoire of many choirs. The movements portray the varying moods of summer, from buzzing flies to calm evenings, from May-blossom to fancy dress parades, may also be performed separately. 1. May, Queen of Blossoms 2. The Rose in June 3. Busy Fly 4. July Evening 5. Summer Queen The Colne Choral Series contains a range of Bullard’s pieces for adult and youth choirs of all types, including cantatas and choral suites as well as individual movements. For full details please visit www.colneedition.co.uk or www.alanbullard.co.uk.

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1450499 By Joanna Mills. By Joanna Mills. Arranged by Joanna Mills. Christmas,Historic,Holiday,Traditional. 12 pages. Joanna Mills Music #1030184. Published by Joanna Mills Music (A0.1450499). Perfect for winter concerts and carolling evenings, this cheerful piece is an original setting of an adaptation of the poem Winter Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Evoking sleigh-rides and beautiful winter scenes, Winter Song is set in an accessible range for most voices (Sop C4-D5; Alto A3-C5; Ten C3-E4; Bass G2-A3) and features optional sleigh-bells to help set that wintery mood! The SATB arrangement features pretty harmonies and counterpoints (with a short descant for a few sopranos at the end), and the piano part supports the singers, while still adding charm and musicality. Approximate performance time 2:30. Unison, 2-Part, SAB and SSA Arrangements also available at Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct.