The Oxford Book of Flexible Choral Songs is the perfect resource for secular choirs and singing groups who like the flexibility to perform songs in a range of combinations from unison to SATB. Each piece may be performed by a mixed choir, but is also presented with flexible scoring options, clearly explained throughout, enabling performance by various combinations of singers, including upper voices or men's voices alone. As well as new arrangements of existing repertoire, the collection also features newly commissioned original works, specially written for flexible forces.
Contents:
Alan Bullard: A Bell-Chime
John Rutter: A flower remembered
Edvard Grieg: A Swan (En svane)
Will Todd: All will be well
Stephen Hatfield: As She Goes
Alan Bullard: Calm and deep peace / Simple Gifts
Thomas Morley, adap. Alan Bullard: Canzonet
Alan Bullard: Celebrate!
Charles Edward Horn, arr. Alan Bullard: Cherry ripe
Bob Chilcott: Catch a Falling Star
Oliver Tarney: Chimes
Ian Assersohn: Dwell on the beauty
Ben Parry: Eletelephony
Toby Young: Fall, leaves, fall
John Dowland, adap. Alan Bullard: Flow my tears
Alan Bullard: Four Bird Songs
Trad. English folk song, arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves
Libby Larsen: If I can stop one heart from breaking
Thomas Morley, arr. Alan Bullard: It was a lover and his lass
Pierre Certon: La, la, la
Trad. Spanish, arr. Alan Bullard: Juanita (A Spanish Ballad)
Alison Willis: My Boy Jack
Michael Higgins: My heart is like a singing bird
Trad. Hebridean, arr. Alan Bullard: O er the Waves Let Us Go
Anon. 16th century, arr. Alan Bullard: Pase el agoa (Cross the water)
Trad. English folk song, arr. Michael Higgins: Scarborough Fair
Edmund Jolliffe: Spring (Sound the Flute)
Andy Brooke: Stars of the summer night
Anon. 13th century, arr. Alan Bullard: Sumer is icumen in
Fanny Hensel: The Darkened Valley (Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald)
Trad. Irish, arr. Alan Bullard: The Gartan Mother s Lullaby
William H. Penn, arr. Alan Bullard: The Honeysuckle and the Bee
Alan Bullard: The Tiger
Ralph Vaughan Williams, adap. Alan Bullard: The Water Mill
Bob Chilcott: The Truth is Great
Trad. West African (Mandingo wedding processional), transcribed and arr. Fred Onovwerosuoke: The Way of Peace (Kayra Sillo)
Sarah Quartel: There alway something sings
Alan Bullard: Three Shakespeare Songs
Franz Schubert, adap. Alan Bullard: To Music (An die Musik)
Trad. British sea shanty, arr. Alan Bullard: Tom s gone to Hilo
Alan Bullard: Tread Softly
Trad. Dominican Republic, arr. Juan Tony Guzmán: Two Songs of Quisqueya
William Walton, adap. Alan Bullard: Under the greenwood tree
Malcolm Archer: What is the song the stars sing?
James Rolmaz: Where did you get that hat?
Charles Villiers Stanford, adap. Alan Bullard: Why does he gallop?