Carols for Choirs Book 1 is a foundational collection for carol-singers and choirs worldwide, featuring 50 timeless carols suitable for all occasions. This volume includes beloved carols in classic arrangements, original compositions, and pieces specifically written for this collection. With options for audience participation, festive descants, and the full texts for the traditional Nine Lessons in an appendix, this book offers flexibility for a range of seasonal performances.

Key Features:

• 50 carols for diverse occasions
• Classic arrangements of well-loved tunes
• Original compositions unique to this collection
• Carols with harmonizations and festive descants for audience participation
• Full texts of the Nine Lessons included in an appendix

Perfect for choirmasters and singers, Carols for Choirs Book 1 is an essential addition to any holiday repertoire. Discover Hamcor’s complete range of Carols for Choirs resources to enrich your choir’s festive season!

Contents:

• A boy was born (Britten)
• A Christmas Carol (Kodaly)
• A great and mighty wonder (Kodaly)
• A merry Christmas (Warrell)
• A virgin most pure (Wood)
• Adeste fideles (Willcocks)
• And there were shepherds (Bach/Willcocks)
• Angels (from the realms of glory (Jacques)
• As with gladness men of old (Kocher/Willcocks)
• Away in a manger (Kirkpatrick/Willcocks)
• Away in a manger (Jacques)
• Blessed be that maid Mary (Willcocks)
• The Blessed son of God (Vaughan Willams)
• The Boar's head carol (Poston)
• Carol, with lullaby (Tate)
• Coventry Carol (Anon)
• Coventry Carol (Shaw)
• Ding dong! merrily on high (Wood)
• The first nowell (Willcocks)
• Gallery carol (Jacques)
• Gloucestershire wassail (Vaughan Williams)
• God rest you merry gentlemen (Willcocks)
• Good King Wenceslas (Jacques)
• Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn/Willcocks)
• The holly and the ivy (Jacques)
• I saw three ships (Willcocks)
• I saw three ships (Jacques)
• In dulci jubilo (Pearsall/Jacques)
• Infant holy, infant lowly (Willcocks)
• It came upon the midnight clear (Sullivan)
• King Jesus hath a garden (Wood)
• The linden tree carol (Jacques)
• Lute-book lullaby (Ballet/Shaw)
• No sad thought his soul affright (Vaughan Williams)
• O come (all ye faithful (Willcocks)
• O little one sweet (Bach)
• O little town of Bethlehem (Vaughan Williams/Armstrong)
• O men from the fields (Cooke)
• Once in royal David's city (Gauntlett/Mann)
• Past three a clock (Wood)
• Rejoice and be merry (Jacques)
• Rocking (Willcocks)
• See amid the winter's snow (Goss/Willcocks)
• The Shepherd's farewell (Berlioz)
• Sussex Carol (Willcocks)
• The three kings (Cornelius/Atkins)
• Torches (Joubert)
• Unto us is born a son (Willcocks)
• Up! good Christen folk, and listen (Woodward)
• We've been a while a-wandering (Vaughan Williams)
• What cheer? (Walton)
• When Christ was born (Jacques)
• While shepherds watched their flocks (Ravenscroft)
• While the shepherds were watching (Armstrong Gibbs)
• Zither Carol (Sargent)

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