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Music your choir will love singing

"splendid … I feel sure many choirs
(and congregations) will enjoy it."

Martin Neary

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Our publications

Beautifully-engraved publications from The Art of Music.

• Customers include the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir directed by David Ogden and the RSCM Cathedral Singers directed by Brian Kay in performances at St Paul's Cathedral, London, England and Dunblane Cathedral, Scotland,
  and many churches in the English-speaking world.
• Selected for choral workshops and summer schools in Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Music for SATB choir
(Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass)

• Matthew Beetschen
  A Celtic Prayer
  text: Alistair Maclean (from Hebridean Altars)
  Sung in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Choral Evensong by the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, conducted by David Ogden
  (2 September 2007).
  SATB choir (with divisions) and organ
  difficulty level: ***

• Patricia Lynch
  Love came down at Christmas
  words by Christina Rossetti, music by Patricia Lynch
  SATB choir and organ
  difficulty level: **

• Kenneth Naylor, arr. Alistair Warwick
  How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen)
  words by John Mason, original music by Ken Naylor, arranged by Alistair Warwick
  SATB choir and organ with descant
  difficulty level: ***

• Carolyn Sparey
  Christmas Bells
  SATB choir and piano
  difficulty level: **

• Elizabeth Ann Spencer
  Irish Blessing
  text: traditional
  SATB a capella – or unison / 2-part with piano/harp
  difficulty level: *(**)

Music for unison voices (or 2-part)

• Elizabeth Ann Spencer
  Irish Blessing
  text: traditional
  unison / 2-part with piano/harp – or SATB a capella
  difficulty level: *(**)
• chant
  In paradisum
  text from the liturgy, set to Gregorian chant (in modern notation)
  unison
  difficulty level: ***
• Alistair Warwick
  The Great O
  A chant setting of the initial 'O', as used in the 'O' Antiphons, to be sung before the Advent hymn 'O come, O come, Emmanuel' (melody and words included)
  words: from the Advent Liturgy, tr. J. M. Neale; music based on a French melody
  unison (and optional organ)
  difficulty level: *

Plainchant (or chant-inspired music)

• chant
  In paradisum
  text from the liturgy, set to Gregorian chant (in modern notation)
  unison
  difficulty level: ***

• Alistair Warwick
  The Great O
  A chant setting of the initial 'O', as used in the 'O' Antiphons, to be sung before the Advent hymn 'O come, O come, Emmanuel' (melody and words included)
  words: from the Advent Liturgy, tr. J. M. Neale; music based on a French melody
  unison (and optional organ)
  difficulty level: *

Forthcoming publications

• Carolyn Sparey:
  Craigieburn Wood
  beautiful setting of Robert Burns' poem 'Craigieburn Wood'
  SATB choir and piano
  difficulty level: **

• chant
  Ubi caritas est vera
  for any time of the year, especially on Maundy Thursday
  unison
  difficulty level: **

• chant
  Verbum caro factum est
  responsory for Christmas
  unison
  difficulty level: **

• William Deane, ed. David Evans
  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
  Attributed to William Deane of Wrexham, and edited by David Evans, this 17th-century setting of the traditional Grace said at the end of Evensong and other services enables a calm conclusion to any service, especially those including early music.
  SAATB choir
  difficulty level: **

• John Harper
  Si quis diligit me
  This setting of the Sarum antiphon for Pentecost 'Si quis diligit me' by John Harper is based upon the tenor in the setting by David Peebles in the Wode Partbooks.
  2-part/SATB choir and cello
  difficulty level: **

• John Harper
  An Easter Antiphon – Regina Caeli
  text from the liturgy, music by John Harper
  SATB choir (with divisions) and organ
  difficulty level: ****

• John Harper
  Benedictus (for Schubert's Mass in G)
  text from the liturgy, music by John Harper
  This alternative Benedictus was composed for occasions when for reasons of length it would be impractical to use Schubert's beautiful original setting.
  SATB choir and organ
  difficulty level: ***

• Dennis Macdonald
  Come down, O love divine
  solo soprano, SATB choir and organ
  difficulty level: ***

• Carolyn Sparey
  Four Burns Songs

• Tom David Wilson
  Ecce homo
  The world première of this work was given by The Rosenethe Singers at the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling on 16 March 2008.
  SATB choir
  difficulty level: ***(*)

• Harper
  Song of Redemption – Salve Regina
  (SSAATTBB, solo for precentor/cantor, and organ)
• Harper
  Ubi caritas
• David Peebles, ed. Alistair Warwick
  Si quis diligit me
  (ATTB or SATB)
  
• John Piggins
  Didache
  (SATB choir)
• Spencer
  Go in peace
  Words by Shirley Elena Murray: a song for funerals and remembrance services
  unison and keyboard/guitar
• Spencer
  Water Song
  unison with keyboard
• Spencer
  Ps 84 (85)
• Warwick
  Amen (stand-alone or for plainsong acclamations):
  unison, optional SATB choir & organ
• Warwick
  descants for Angel voices, Fulda and Moscow
• Warwick
  Gospel acclamations
  for Lent and for Easter or Ordinary Sundays
• Warwick
  Litany of the Saints
  (including versions for Easter Vigil and ordinations)
• Warwick
  Music for Episcopal Ordinations
  (RC rite: unison with optional organ)
• Warwick
  Psalm settings (cantor & assembly with organ):
  Ps 88 (89): I will sing for ever of your love
  (for Chrism Mass and other occasions)
  Ps 96 (97): This day new light will shine (for Christmas)

Most popular titles

• Naylor, arr. Warwick
  How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen)
  words by John Mason, original music by Ken Naylor, arranged by Alistair Warwick
  SATB choir and organ with descant
  difficulty level: ***

• Spencer
  Irish Blessing
  text: traditional
  unison / 2-part with piano/harp – or SATB a capella
  difficulty level: *(**)

• Beetschen
  A Celtic Prayer
  text: Alistair Maclean (from Hebridean Altars)
  Sung in a BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Choral Evensong by the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, conducted by David Ogden (2 September 2007).
  SATB choir (with divisions) and organ
  difficulty level: ***

• Lynch
  Love came down at Christmas
  words by Christina Rossetti, music by Patricia Lynch
  SATB choir and organ
  difficulty level: **

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What customers say

"splendid … I feel sure many choirs (and congregations) will enjoy it."

Martin Neary, London, England

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Derek, Herts, England

Public performances and recordings

We welcome information about any public performances or recordings of works published by The Art of Music.

Please send details to performances(at)theartofmusic.co.uk

Known performances

• Matthew Beetschen's Celtic Prayer was sung by the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, directed by David Ogden at Dunblane Cathedral, Scotland (and broadcast on Radio 3 Choral Evensong) on 2 September 2007
• John Harper's Regina Caeli first sung on 9 April 2007 at St Paul's Cathedral, London, England, by the combined RSCM Cathedral Singers, directed by Brian Kay
• Lizzy Ann Spencer's Irish Blessing has been sung in numerous weddings and other services, and also in concert by the Stirling University Choir
• Tom David Wilson's Ecce homo received its world première by the Rosenethe Singers, directed by Matthew Beetschen at the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling, Scotland on 16 March 2008
• Alistair Warwick's choral arrangement with descant of Coe Fen: How shall I sing that majesty has been sung too many times to be counted, including in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA, and various parts of the British Isles.

Submitting unpublished manuscripts

We are currently unable to review manuscripts for publication.
Please return to this site periodically for further updates.

26 April 2011

Typesetting your work

A separate typesetting facility is available should you need your work to be professionally engraved by The Art of Music.

Please contact us if you are looking to publish your own music, as we can provide the following services:

• engraving the music in Score
• setting the text in InDesign
• preparing camera-ready PDFs
• negotiating with printers to enable the best result for you.