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'He will speak peace' is an anthem for SATB (divisi), mezzo-soprano or treble solo, and organ
It is a setting of two verses from Psalm 85, and this anthem is dedicated to the memory of Bullard's teacher Herbert Howells.  The expressive and calm setting also incorporates Song 1' by Orlando Gibbons (Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round')  mainly in the organ part, with the choir taking up and developing the hymn-tune in the final bars, to the words Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other'.
Alan Bullard's church music is performed and broadcast world-wide, and is in the repertoire of many choirs. He has a reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to listeners.
Published by Colne Edition www.colneedition.co.uk
www.alanbullard.co.uk

He will speak peace

SATB Octavo

This Christmas Carol for mixed voices (S A Bar) and piano or organ, is a gentle setting of traditional German words, beginning with a flowing original melody, which is later combined with the traditional sixteenth-century carol attributed to Samuel Scheidt, and also used by J.S.Bach.

Alan Bullard's choral works are performed worldwide, and many have been recorded and broadcast. He has a reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to audiences.
The Colne Choral Series contains a range of Bullard's pieces for adult and youth choirs of all types, including cantatas and choral suites as well as individual movements. For full details please visit www.colneedition.co.uk or www.alanbullard.co.uk

O Little One Sweet

SAB Octavo

Alan Bullard's setting of That Virgin's Child is an expressive
and colourful response to John Gwyneth's mystical poem, a
meditation on our Lord's Passion. John Gwyneth was a
sixteenth-century Welsh clergyman, poet, polemicist and
composer who lived through the turbulent times of the
Protestant Reformation.
The work is also suitable for concert performance, and an
arrangement for soprano or tenor voice and piano is also on
sale (CE183)
COLNE EDITION CE182
www.colneedition.co.uk

That Virgin's Child

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls is a colourful response to the imaginative
  poem by Longfellow which depicts life and death through the image of the
  continual ebb and flow of the tide, watched by a traveller on the seashore.
  The music clothes the poetry with poignant rising and falling phrases
  supported by rich harmony and a flowing piano part.
    
    It is a movement from Bullardis cantata Travelling Tales, also published
  by Colne Edition.
    
    www.alanbullard.co.uk
    
    www.colneedition.co.uk

The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls

.The Gift to Sing, for SATB choir and piano (or strings), is a setting of the poem by James Weldon Johnson, the American writer, poet, and civil rights activist. It tells us that whatever troubles life might bring, singing will turn the gloom to cheerful day'. This song similarly turns, from a sombre minor to a joyful major, finally evaporating into the distance.

The Gift to Sing is a movement from Alan Bullard's cantata Endless Song, for SATB choir and strings (quartet, quintet, or orchestra), or piano (Colne Edition CE76).

Alan Bullard's choral music is performed and broadcast world-wide, and is in the repertoire of many choirs. He has a reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to audiences.

The Gift to Sing

This arrangement by Alan Bullard of the timeless ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’ begins with the tune presented in unison, then moving into a conversational texture between the voices. An optional solo instrument (violin, flute, or oboe) leads into the fuller harmonised second verse, and then the final verse is elaborated with a descant and rich chromatic harmonies, sensitively colouring the simplicity of the original tune.

Published by Colne Edition in two versions: SABar (CE165) and SA (CE166), both with organ or piano, and optional melody instrument, for which a separate part is included with the score.

What a Friend we have in Jesus

Alan Bullard's setting of God be in my head (for SATB and organ or piano) matches the well-known traditional text with a flowing, gradually climbing melody and colourful harmonies. The verse appears three times, firstly in unison, then in harmony, and finally with a soprano descant above the unison melody: the final phrase brings the choir together in harmony again, to form a calm and peaceful close. 

Alan Bullard's church music is performed and broadcast world-wide, and is in the repertoire of many churches, cathedrals, and chapel choirs. He has a reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to listeners.

COLNE EDITION CE133
www.colneedition.co.uk

God be in my head

The Essex Service (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) is a rich and colourful setting of the traditional text, suitable for Evensong. This is the version for SATB and organ – a version for voices in two parts (SA or TB) and organ is also available.
The Colne Choral Series contains a range of Alan Bullard's pieces for adult and youth choirs of all types, including cantatas and choral suites as well as individual movements. For full details please visit www.colneedition.co.uk or www.alanbullard.co.uk

Essex Service, SATB version

The rainbow: sign of peace, sign of caring, sign of life, sign of the
  future.
    
    During the COVID lockdown in Spring 2020, UK residents placed pictures of
  rainbows in their windows, and, every Thursday, came out to their doorsteps
  and applauded those in the medical profession who were working so hard to
  keep them safe. 
    
    Written at that time, this song, to the composer's own words, reflects on
  the healing powers of the rainbow, symbol of the caring professions.
    
    Available in SATB and Unison/SA versions. www.alanbullard.co.uk

Rainbow

All the excitement of a firework display is here in this colourful piece:
  the colours, the sounds, the glitter, the explosions, and the final rocket
  falling to the ground amidst 'oohs' and 'ahs' of delight from the
  choir!
    
    It is available in two versions, SATB or 2-part voices, both with
  piano.
    
    www.alanbullard.co.uk

Fireworks

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This arrangement of the classic 19th century hymn blends simplicity with power, slowly building to a strong conclusion supported by traditional but colourful harmonies and textures. Arranged by Alan Bullard, this easy-to-learn arrangement can be sung by SATB or SABar (omitting the tenor part) accompanied by organ or piano.
Colne Edition Prayer and Praise for Choirs is a series of arrangements of popular hymns and worship songs suitable as anthems for small church choirs, often with flexible scoring. Published by www.colneedition.co.uk, they are arranged by Alan Bullard, the editor of the Oxford Flexible Anthems series.

It is well with my soul

SATB/SAB Octavo

Commissioned by the Romsey Festival of Youth Music, and first performed
  by massed school choirs in Romsey Abbey, Hampshire, UK, in October 2022, One
  Voice for All is a lively celebration of the joy of singing, and a call for
  peace, friendship, and care for the environment. The words are by the
  composer's daughter Mary Bullard.
    
    
    
    Two versions are available: either SABar or Unison Voices, with piano -
  both with optional descant. The unison version is pitched a tone lower than the
  mixed voice version.

One Voice for All

Alleluia by Alan Bullard is scored for SATB unaccompanied, and the lively and rhythmic setting has been performed by a number of choirs, and is suitable for both worship and concert situations.
The journal Church Music Quarterly wrote: An admirable choral flourish: the text consists of only two words, Alleluia and Gloria, and the composer has produced a fresh and original setting, full of rhythmic ingenuity.

Alleluia

Based on a paraphrase of an old German text, this tuneful and richly harmonised Christmas carol sings tenderly of the joy of Jesus's birth and its meaning for humankind over the centuries.
It is available in two versions, for SATB and for SA, both with organ or piano

COLNE EDITION www.colneedition.co.uk

Alan Bullard's choral music is performed and broadcast world-wide, and is in the repertoire of many choirs. He has a reputation for music that choirs enjoy performing, and which speaks directly to audiences. The Colne Choral Collection contains a wide range of Bullard's works for choirs of all types and sizes.

Great Joy, Glad Joy!

This lively setting of words originally suggested by schoolchildren
  combines rhythmic drive (...running a race for the future...) with a flowing
  melody (...my hope and dream is that one day there will be no more
  war...).
    
    An optional second voice part of similar range adds to the texture, but the
  song works equally well with unison voices, and overall it communicates a
  message of care for the environment, and a hope for a future of peace and
  equality. www.alanbullard.co.uk

Running for the Future

Unison/Two-Part Octavo

Be thou my vision is a traditional Irish folk-hymn, here arranged by Alan Bullard for three-part mixed choir (SABar) and organ or piano. The gentle melody grows throughout the piece to a climactic final verse with a soaring soprano descant. The arrangement is also available for upper voices (SA). Both are published in the Colne Prayer and Praise for Choirs series, a collection of hynms and songs of praise arranged for the smaller church choir.
Alan Bullard is also the editor of the Oxford Flexible Anthems series.
www.colneedition.co.uk
www.alanbullard.co.uk

Be thou my vision

SAB ar

The traditional American Spiritual is arranged by Alan Bullard for SATB unaccompanied.
This beautiful Gospel song was popularised by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in their tours of America and Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its timeless words and dramatic melody have gone straight to the heart ever since.
This arrangement is suitable for a vocal quartet as well as for a choir.

COLNE EDITION CE131 www.colneedition.co.uk

Steal Away

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Alan Bullard: Eventide
Prelude / Meditation on Abide with Me, for solo organ

One of the most popular and enduring hymn-tune melodies, W. H. Monk’s melody Eventide is sung, to H. F. Lyte’s words Abide with Me, in churches (and sporting events) the world over. This Prelude presents the simple but memorable tune in various textures against a falling counter-melody, highlighting Monk’s transparently simple harmonisation of the last line in the final bars. It is suitable as a prelude to a church service, or during communion.

Also available in a version for piano solo (CE175)
Colne Edition CE185 
www.colneedition.co.uk

Eventide - Prelude/Meditation on Abide with Me, for organ solo

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Welcoming sun, moon, rain, and fire, this upbeat song contrasts
  reflective passages with lively rhythmic sections, as it asks us to care for
  our whole world. The words are based on those of St. Francis of Assisi.
    
    Sun, Moon, World can be sung by two-part upper voices or by two-part lower
  voices,  or they may all be combined in
  octaves to make a mixed choir, S+T and A+B.
    
    www.alanbullard.co.uk

Sun, Moon, World

Two-Part Octavo

Ensemble

Published in the Colne 'Piano Prayer and Praise' series, this is a fantasia by Alan Bullard on the traditional American hymn, 'Amazing Grace'. Quite possibly derived originally from a Scottish folk-tune, 'Amazing Grace' as we know it first appeared in several early nineteenth-century American hymn-tune collections, where it was often known as New Britain'. This fantasia develops the melody in a classical/early romantic manner  a style appropriate to the time of its first publication.
The 'Piano Prayer and Praise' series contains solo piano pieces, mainly based on well-known hymns or worship songs, suitable for use in church services  either played complete or using sections as shorter interludes.
https://www.alanbullard.co.uk/piano-prayer-and-praise/

Amazing Grace - Fantasia for Solo Piano

Piano Solo

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