Sacred Christmas Choral Music

Traditional Latin text is given a fresh, exciting setting in this work for advanced treble choirs. Shimmering a cappella harmonies contrast with rhythmic ostinatos, making this a festive number perfect for

The traditional French carol sparkles in this strophic a cappella setting. It begins with standard harmonies but grows to feature both the upper and lower voices on the melody with accompanying harmonies.

This genre-bending piece blends elements of rock, gospel, spiritual, and the spoken word. Useful for the Advent season or school concert anytime, the text invites chorus and listener to imagine a world of

Calling to mind compositions written for traditional men's singing societies in Germany, the harmonies and lyric character of this arrangement are as one might hear in a Christkindlmarkt in Northern Europe.

This little Christmas motet, the responsory to the eighth Lesson of Second Vespers on Christmas, is a setting of John 1:14 in Latin, through-composed in the Renaissance manner, with each new phrase of text

This work addresses the difficulties of our world while finding cause for hope and peace within them. Accordingly, the lyrics play off the themes of darkness and light and invoke the memories of childlike

This work opens with a choral fanfare, setting a tone of grandeur, followed by a playful melody which features interjections of exaltation, and then moves to a lyrical tune through which singers may take

A "fantasia" in the truest sense, this choral tapestry of English carols was composed in 1912 after Vaughan Williams had completed the scores for his first symphony ("The Sea") and the Tallis fantasia. In