A tender shoot
Kerensa Briggs (b. 1991)
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATBdiv
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: English
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Advent
Advent Lessons and Carols
17 recommended works by women composers for Advent Lessons and Carols.
Adam lay ybounden
June Nixon (b. 1942)
Text source: Anonymous, 15th c.
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: Old English
Advent 'O' Carol
Joanna Forbes L'Estrange (b. 1971)
Text source: O Antiphons
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSAATBB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 6:25
Language: English
Advent Responsories
Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)
Text source: Matin Respond, Advent Sunday
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATTB · Solos: SSAT
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 4:30
Language: English
Nicely repetitive for the choir; a good piece if Soloistists are available.
Advent Responsory
Sarah MacDonald (b. 1968)
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SAB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Language: English
RSCM Carols for Sopranos, Altos and Unison Lower Voices
As the pauper waits for plenty
Rosalie Bonighton (1946–2011)
Words by Delores Dufner OSB
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: organ
Duration: 4:01
Language: English
Christ hath a Garden
Eleanor Daley (b. 1955)
Words by Robert Bridges
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:25
Language: English
Es ist ein Ros
Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759–1824)
Text source: Trad. German origin
Anthem · Young Trebles
Voicing: SS
Accompaniment: piano
Duration: 2:30
Language: German
arr. Olivia Sparkhall to introduce this important blind composer to choirs with sacred text substituted for original secular text
God would be Born in Thee
Judith Bingham (b. 1952)
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATBdiv
Accompaniment: organ
Language: English
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I sing of a maiden
Alison Willis (b. 1971)
Text source: 15th c. Sloane 2593
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATBdiv
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 3:25
Language: Modern English
Digital offprint
I sing of a maiden
Amy Bebbington (b. 1975)
Text source: Sloane 2593
Anthem · Young Trebles
Voicing: SSA
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 2:00
Language: Early Modern English
can be sung 'straight' or in the folk idom as on the recording by NYCOS
Nurture
Jane Marshall (1924–2019)
Words by Mechthild of Magdeburg
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 1:01
Language: English
first of "Words from Two Women"
O Oriens
Melissa Dunphy (b. 1980)
Text source: O Antiphon
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 5:30
Language: Latin
O virtus Sapientie
Words and music by Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)
Anthem · Soloist
Voicing: S
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 1:00
Language: Latin
digital download available from louisestewart@multitudeofvoyces.co.uk
People look East
June Nixon (b. 1942)
Words by Eleanor Farjeon
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 2:00
Language: English
The Call
Roxanna Panufnik (b. 1968)
Words by George Herbert, from The Temple (1633)
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SSATBB
Accompaniment: organ (or harp or piano)
Language: English
Veni redemptor gentium
Katherine Burk Webb (b. 1990)
Words by St. Ambrose
Anthem · Choir
Voicing: SATB
Accompaniment: a cappella
Duration: 4:30
Language: Latin