SKU: A0.840870

A lush arrangement of this song from Sia's fantastic Christmas album.

SKU: A0.930425

Sleep Now SSA, music by Jennifer R. Tibbetts and words by James Joyce. A haunting and compelling work for Women's Chorus. From the very opening this piece lulls the listener into a tumultuous lullaby only to be awaken by the kiss that gives peace.

SKU: A0.927349

This Child We Now Bless is an SAB anthem/lullaby appropriate for use during a Christian infant or child baptism.

SKU: A0.1096563

Tauren Wells's beautiful song is transcribed and arranged for SAB vocal group plus soloist, accompanied by piano or guitar. The gospel-inflected SAB vocal parts are a great opportunity to work on blend and style for background singers and choirs alike. The piano/guitar accompaniment is printed on the last page of the arrangement (which is not visible in the preview).

SKU: A0.840847

SSA plus lead vocal (Tenor or alto).

SKU: A0.873857

An arrangement of a wonderful hymn for SAB chorus. Great for church choirs.

SKU: A0.1151796

This humorous piece is designed to keep SAB choir members interested (and to keep them guessing). Für Elise Toot (Who Tooted?) is by the fictional composer Kent U. Händel (a pseudonym for my wackier side), parodying Beethoven's well-known bagatelle and pairing it with lyrics based on a well-known limerick. (The final page also includes a disclaimer about Kent U. Händel's fictional background and an admission that he is, in fact, fictional, created in my own mind.).

SKU: A0.1007139

This song is one of a series of ‘Fourteen Tolkien Songs’.

A comment on the collection by an Oxford piano teacher:

‘For those who only know Tolkien via the recent blood-and-thunder films, this song-cycle by Charles McCreery will give a very different angle on the classic saga. Here we find a gentle and ethereal world, where rhythms lilt and words echo. The twelve songs, suitable for choir, evoke a dreamy, water-colour landscape with no harsh sounds, the tunes are singable and in a traditional style that Tolkien would surely have approved.

Dr Julia Gasper, LGSM

A general comment on Charles McCreery’s music by a violinist and composer in the USA:

‘Charles McCreery’s beautifully melodic, intricately textured compositions are infused with classical, romantic and folk idioms.’

Samantha Gillogly

‘Galadriel’s Song’ is appropriate for either women’s or children’s voices, and is potentially of interest to anyone who is familiar with the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The three vocal parts and the piano accompaniment can each be printed out separately at the end of the full score.

The MP3 which plays from this page is of an orchestral version of the song, which can be heard on the stmaurmusic channel on YouTube.

On the front cover of Galadriel’s Song is a photograph of leaves in Wytham Woods, Oxford, and at the end of the score is a photograph of the sea off Treyarnon Bay, Cornwall .

Charles McCreery’s social media channels:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/St-Maur-Music-164619846916182/

https://www.facebook.com/Tolkien-Songs-for-Childrens-Voices-259698587390960/

Contact information: charlesmccreery@gmail.com

SKU: A0.1007135

This is the opening number in a series of songs for children, with words by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The song is written for voices in two and three parts in verses 2 and 3, but can be sung by a choir in unison throughout if preferred, as the tune is always present in one part (usually the top line).

‘Charles McCreerys beautifully melodic, intricately textured compositions are infused with classical, romantic and folk idioms.’ - Samantha Gillogly, violinist

A comment on Charles McCreery’s collection of Tolkien songs:

‘For those who only know Tolkien via the recent blood-and-thunder films, this song-cycle by Charles McCreery will give a very different angle on the classic saga. Here we find a gentle and ethereal world, where rhythms lilt and words echo. The twelve songs, suitable for choir, evoke a dreamy, water-colour landscape with no harsh sounds, the tunes are singable and in a traditional style that Tolkien would surely have approved.’ - Dr Julia Gasper, LGSM

SKU: BJ.1225

8.27 x 11.7 inches.

Savior of the nations, come. One of the oldest hymns known to man, here in an arrangement by composer and jazz pianist Forssén.

SKU: A0.818336

Angels We Have Heard on High with Away in a Manger for SSA choir with piano, trumpet trio, and Children’s Voices
♫ arranged by Stephen R Dalrymple
♫ French Christmas Carol (unknown composer and lyricist). The original lyrics of this song were French - Les Anges dans non campagnes. Our English paraphrase was created by James Chadwick in 1862. In the USA the lyrics are most often sung to GLORIA, arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes (1887-1958).
♫ Away in a Manger (author of lyrics for verses 1 and 2 unknown [earliest publishing known 1885] verse 3 by John Thomas McFarland (1851-1913) melody by William J Kirkpatrick (1895)
♫ This arrangement could be sung by a SAT choir instead of a SSA with some minor tweaking of the tenor line. The trumpets are optional, the sounds are also in the piano part. A soloist or soprano section could substitute for the children’s voices, but children love to sing the Gloria refrain.
♫ A grand old Christmas carol with the story told from the shepherd’s point of view.
♫ sequenced by the composer
♫ music © 1991, 2020
♫ recording ℗ 2020 Stephen R Dalrymple
♫ presentation © 2023 Stephen R Dalrymple.

SKU: A0.818358

♫The Good Physician with There’s a Balm in Gilead - Soprano, Alto, and Baritone arrangement by Stephen R Dalrymple ♫Balm in Gilead (in this arrangement) is NOT the well-known negro spiritual (There is a Balm in Gilead). This is evidently an earlier song with some similar words in the refrain. The Good Physician was published in the shape note hymnal, The Southern Harmony and Music Companion as early as 1835. Balm in Gilead was published in The Revivalist as early as 1868. Both of these songs were collected by their publishers and the lack of a listed composer shows their apparent age. ♫ The Good Physician has 4 verses with no refrain. Balm in Gilead has 4 verses with a refrain. ♫ Music and hymn singing was an important catalyst in both the First Great Awakening (1730 to about 1755 in colonial America) and the Second Great Awakening (1790-1840 in the American frontier of the time.) The arranger tried to achieve a frontier-like setting for the arrangement, going so far as to set The Good Physician in the mixolydian mode. ♫ This edition includes 3 files 1) the full score 2) vocal parts 3) smaller size suitable loading onto a 10 inch tablet.

SKU: A0.805351

Belinda Carlisle's classic song Heaven Is A Place On Earth in an exciting arrangement for female voices.

SKU: A0.929571