Carols for Choirs 2
General information
Title: Carols for Choirs 2
Series: … for Choirs Collection
Editors / Compilers: David Willcocks and John Rutter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England (webpage for purchase)
Price: £16.50 (Paperback) (As at 04/12/2019)
ISBN-10: 0-19-353565-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-353565-7
Voicing of works: SATB & piano
Notes: 28 of the items in this volume were used in 100 Carols For Choirs (1987)
Publication date and place: 1970 16 July, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.
Contents
Note: Works in the "Titles" column which appear in blue are hyperlinks to the score page on CPDL - click on them for free editions. If the work is noted as being arranged, edited, or harmonised by an "Editor", it is possible that the linked work is not the same edition. Exercise caution if this is an important consideration for you. Those which are available here by the same arranger as in the publication are marked thus * .
Number | Title | Composer/Source | Editor | Seasonal use |
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1 | A babe is born I wys | Frederick Bainton | Christmas | |
2 | A child is born in Bethlehem | Samuel Scheidt | David Willcocks (arr.) | Christmas |
3 | Adam lay ybounden | Boris Ord | Advent | |
4 | All my heart this night rejoices * | Johann Georg Ebeling | Christmas | |
5 | All this time | William Walton | Christmas | |
6 | Nativity carol | John Rutter | Christmas | |
7 | Deck the hall | Traditional (Welsh) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
8 | Ding Dong! Merrily on high | Traditional (French) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
9 | Down in yon forest | Traditional (English) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas |
10 | Shepherd's pipe carol | John Rutter | Christmas | |
11 | Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary * | Traditional (Italian) | Charles Wood (ed.) | Christmas |
12 | Here we come a-wassailing | Traditional (English) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas |
13 | A new year carol | Benjamin Britten | Epiphany | |
14 | How far is it to Bethlehem? | Traditional (English) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas / Epiphany III |
15 | Matin responsory | Adapted from a Magnificat by Palestrina (although, in reality, from this Nunc dimittis) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Advent / Christmas |
16 | Come, thou redeemer of the earth | Traditional (German) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Advent / Christmas |
17 | Il est né le divin enfant | Traditional (French) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas |
18 | I saw a maiden * | Anonymous (Basque Noel) | Edgar Pettman (ed.) | Christmas |
19 | Myn lyking | Richard R. Terry | Christmas | |
20 | I sing of a maiden | Patrick Hadley | Christmas | |
21 | It came upon the midnight clear | Arthur Sullivan | David Willcocks (Org & desc.) | Christmas |
22 | The cherry tree carol | Traditional (English) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Advent / Christmas |
23 | Masters in this hall | Traditional (French) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
24 | Noël nouvelet | Traditional (French) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas / Epiphany |
25 | Sans Day Carol | Traditional (Cornish) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas |
26 | Sir Christèmas | William Mathias | Christmas | |
27 | O come, O come Emmanuel | Traditional (15th century French Processional) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Advent |
28 | The shepherds' cradle song | Karl Leuner | Charles Macpherson (ed.) | Christmas |
29 | Of the Father's heart begotten | From Piae Cantiones | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
30 | The twelve days of Christmas | Traditional (English) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas |
31 | Once in royal David's city | Henry J. Gauntlett | Arthur Henry Mann (harm.), David Willcocks (Org & desc.) | Christmas |
32 | Out of your sleep | Richard Rodney Bennett | Christmas | |
33 | Past three a clock | Traditional (English) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas / Epiphany |
34 | Personent Hodie * | Traditional (German, 1360) | Gustav Holst (ed.) | Christmas |
35 | Quelle est cette odeur agréable | Traditional (French) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
36 | Quem pastores laudavere | Traditional (14th century German) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas |
37 | Quittez, Pasteurs | Traditional (French) | John Rutter (ed.) | Christmas |
38 | Resonemus laudibus | Traditional (14th century) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
39 | The angels and the shepherds | Traditional (Bohemian) | Caleb Henry Trevor (ed.) | Christmas |
40 | Stille Nacht * | Franz Xaver Gruber | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
41 | The infant king | Traditional (Basque Noel) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
42 | There is no rose | Traditional (15th century English) | John Stevens (arr.) | Christmas |
43 | Gabriel's message | Traditional (Basque Noel) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Annunciation / Christmas |
44 | The holly and the ivy | Traditional (English) | Walford Davies (ed.) | Christmas |
45 | The Lord at first did Adam make | Traditional | David Willcocks (ed.) | Advent |
46 | The truth from above | Traditional (English) | Ralph Vaughan Williams (ed.) | Advent |
47 | Tomorrow shall be my dancing day | Traditional (English) | David Willcocks (ed.) | Christmas |
48 | While shepherds watched their flocks | Este's Psalter | David Willcocks (Org & desc.) | Christmas |
49 | Patapan | Traditional (Bergundian) | Reginald Jacques (ed.) | Christmas |
50 | Zion hears the watchmen's voices | Johann Sebastian Bach | John Rutter (arr.) | Advent |
Appendix 1 | Hark! the herald angels sing | Felix Mendelssohn | William Hayman Cummings (adapted) | Christmas |
Appendix 2 | O come, all ye faithful | John Francis Wade | Christmas | |
Appendix 3 | An Advent Carol Service (order of service) | Advent |