Choral Choir (SSAA) - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.856134 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Liz Garnett. A Cappella,Christmas. Octavo. 2 pages. Liz Garnett #3023031. Published by Liz Garnett (A0.856134). This traditional carol tells of one of the darker parts of the Christmas story, the slaughter of the innocents, from the perspective of the mothers whose children are torn from their arms. The arrangement takes the haunting, plaintive melody, and turns the 'lully-lullay' of a lullaby into the tolling of a bell. The order to slay the children wrenches the music into a new key, and the final verse is bare, halting, desolate.Ranges:Tenor: G4-F5Lead: D#4-D5Bari: A flat 3 - A4Bass: F3 - F#4(N.B. This arrangement is notated in treble and bass alta (i.e. sung an octave higher than written) clefs.www.HelpingYouHarmonise.com

Choral Choir (SSAA) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.781270 Composed by Joanna Mills. A Cappella,Christmas,Holiday,Sacred. Octavo. 8 pages. Joanna Mills Music #2950293. Published by Joanna Mills Music (A0.781270). This acapella Christmas Lullaby has a haunting tune, and is suitable for a quiet moment during services between Christmas Day and Epiphany or for during a Christmas Pageant when Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents is portrayed. In this lullaby, Mary sings a baby or young Jesus to sleep. It starts with a quiet solo, then builds to an intricate 4 part madrigal-style section, then slowly quiets again. Scored for SSAA, but can be easily adapted for mixed choirs. Joanna Mills is the Gospel Choir Director at Roncesvalles United Church in Toronto, Canada, and has been writing and arranging choral music for 15 years. Her compositions and arrangements are performed regularly by her own choir and others.