Sacred & Religious Music

for SATB and organ This is a new original setting of the well-known Christmas text, translated from Polish by Edith Reed. With a gentle melody, war...

for SSAATTBB unaccompanied This is a truly beautiful addition to the Christmas repertory, setting a specially commissioned poem by Charles Bennett....

for SSATB and organ This attractive and uplifting anthem sets the text of the Eastertide Vidi aquam antiphon. Different parts of the text are treat...

for SATB and piano or organ This light-hearted arrangement of Sussex Carol is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser and perfect encore. The familiar tune come...

for SATB (with divisions) and organ Commissioned and first performed by the choir of Liverpool Cathedral, this anthem is ideal for use during the F...

for SSATBB unaccompanied This setting of the Nunc Dimittis was written for Westminster Cathedral and first performed at Compline on Easter Day 1916...

Following three years of ethnomusicological fieldwork on the sacred singing traditions of evangelical Christians in North-East Scotland and Norther...

Although he is often identified as a Monteverdi scholar (Approaches to Monteverdi: Aesthetic, Psychological, Analytical and Historical Studies, pub...

This study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, guides to prayer that were the most popular and widespre...

What does it mean for music to be considered local in contemporary Christian communities, and who shapes this meaning? Through what musical process...

for SATB and organ or orchestra This anthem will feel immediately familiar to many listeners! Wilberg has adapted the words of a traditional hymn a...

England in the fifteenth century was the cradle of much that would have a profound impact on European music for the next several hundred years. Per...

This second selection of studies by Frank DAccone, again based principally on the documentary evidence, follows the development through the mid 16t...

for soprano solo and SSATB unaccompanied Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee is a reflective and reverential setting of a text adapted from the Divine Office ...

For generations, religion and music have been regarded as universals, yet despite the fact that they have been frequently linked throughout history...

for SATB and organ Commissioned by the 2015 Three Choirs Festival, this is Chilcott's second setting of the Evening Canticles. Bright and rhythmica...

For generations, religion and music have been regarded as universals, yet despite the fact that they have been frequently linked throughout history...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in ...

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (History & Biography) New forms of worship have transformed the face of the American church over t...

Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. Yet, surprisingly, despite the significance of Re...

Of all the things we can know about J. S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio, the most profound come from things we can hear. Listening ...

Margot E. Fasslers richly documented historywinner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown ...

for SATB and organ or small orchestra Christmas Lullaby was commissioned in 1989 by the Bach Choir in celebration of the seventieth birthday of its...

In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (18801949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his ...

To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birming...

for SATB and piano or with organ and optional harp This sequence of six carols explores the role of Mary in the Christmas story, focussing on her ...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for the 2009 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this beautiful ...

These four splendid anthems were composed for the coronation of George II in October 1727 and have since retained a position at the heart of the En...

for TTBB unaccompanied This lively reimagining of the traditional hymn is a thrilling a cappella arrangement which pairs the soaring legato melody...

for soloists, SATB, and organ Written for the Choir of Wells Cathedral, of which Matthew Owens is Organist and Master of the Choristers, this setti...