Choral Choir (SSAA) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.505695 By Alan Wagstaff. By Alan Wagstaff. Arranged by Alan Wagstaff. Celtic,Folk,Holiday,Irish,Jewish,Traditional. Octavo. 23 pages. Alan Wagstaff #117353. Published by Alan Wagstaff (A0.505695). This original song uses English folk idioms to retell a traditional snowdrop legend. The chorus is an English 'weather rhyme'. It has been set for choir (SSAA), piano, harp, fiddle, and flute. One of the Snowdrop’s folk names is ‘Eve’s Comforter’; another ‘Maid of February’. Candlemas Carol Maid of February, if you will, grace mantle, hearth, and windowsill. So let us all be of goodwill and gather round, together. When Winter holds the world in thrall, and ice and snow lie over all, the Maiden can at once recall, the coming Summer weather. If Candlemas is fair and bright, cold Winter will take a second bite. But if this day brings clouds and rain, Winter won’t return again. When Eve and Adam left Eden fair, the snow and ice lay ev’rywhere, which filled their hearts with bleak despair, for they could find no pardon. They glimpsed the flowers of paradise, beyond the earthly cold and ice, but they could not be perfect, twice, nor get back to the garden. If Candlemas is fair and bright, cold Winter will take a second bite. But if this day brings clouds and rain, Winter won’t return again. A teardrop fell from Eve’s sad eye, and froze upon the ground close by. An angel raised it up on high, and called for Heaven’s power. The ice became a snowdrop, then. Thus hope returned to Eve again. And all the people say: ‘Amen!’ in praise of Winter’s flower. If Candlemas is fair and bright, cold Winter will take a second bite. But if this day brings clouds and rain, Winter won’t return again. Alan Wagstaff The legend tells that, after Adam and Eve were banished from Eden’s perpetual summer, they wandered, despondently, into Earth’s freezing winter. Eve wept as the snow fell around them. Seeing her tears, an angel intervened. He caught a teardrop when it froze and breathed on it, turning it into a snowdrop. When the angel left more snowdrops sprang up. Thus, snowdrops in Winter, serve as a reminder, that better times will come around. The tale was often recalled at Candlemas: February 2nd.

Female choir (SSAA) a capella - intermediate - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q7323 Composed by Kurt Bikkembergs. This edition: choral score. Schott Choral Music. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 2 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q7323. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q7323). English.The Belgian composer and conductor Kurt Bikkembergs (*1963) has added to the repertoire for women's choir again: With 'The Maiden and the Sea' based on a text by René Geldof, he presents a revised and translated English version of his work 'Het meisje en de zee' written in 1994. It is a choral setting in which Bikkembergs has onomatopoeic and spoken elements alternate with mysterious chordal sounds and combines them in a skilful manner – a fascinating composition for performers and audience alike.

Choral Choir,Choral (SSAA) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1096167 Composed by Karen Ivana. 21st Century,A Cappella,Christian,Christmas,Medieval. 4 pages. Karen Ivana #700124. Published by Karen Ivana (A0.1096167). This beautiful carol is set to words taken from a Medieval lyric (circa 1400) which may be one of the oldest poems in the English language about Mary and Jesus. It has been described as one of the first Christmas carols, and tells of the Annunciation, where the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary telling her she would bear a child.This music is for four part women's choir (SSAA) and is based on an original folk tune (in Phrygian mode) and takes harmonic inspiration from early music but with a twentieth century English feel. It is gentle and reflective with some gorgeous harmonies and melodies; a successful performance requires a reasonable level of intonation and phrasing.

Choral Choir,Choral (SSAA) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1268169 Composed by William Fosdick and George Poulton. Arranged by Howard Ward. 19th Century,A Cappella,Traditional. 3 pages. Howard Ward #860730. Published by Howard Ward (A0.1268169). Aura Lea (Aura Lee) is a song written in the mid-19th century just prior to the American Civil War.  As a ballad about a maiden it was readily taken up by soldiers on both sides, often being sung around camp fires.The tune is perhaps best known for being used by Elvis Presley in his hit song ‘Love Me Tender’.This arrangement, for ‘a cappella’ SSAA choir, provides some close harmony challenges, although the voice-leading is, in the main, intuitive,  Written mostly in 4 parts, there are the occasional divided voices.