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Christmas is Coming Ref: D96

A collection of carols for Advent and Christmas composed, arranged and edited by Nicholas Temperley.

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Both a dedicated carol singer and an authority on the history of English music, Nicholas Temperley here offers a unique book of 37 carols dating from the fifteenth century to the present.

For over fifty years he has sung, edited and composed carols each Christmas, and in Christmas is Coming the fruit of his enthusiasm is combined with his wealth of knowledge to produce an outstanding and original new collection. As John Rutter observes in his Foreword, the book does not pointlessly duplicate what can be found in many other carol books, but has a personality and purpose of its own.

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32 Galliard Carols for Christmas Ref: B495

Edited by June Boyce-Tillman, Bernard Braley and Allen Percival
Covering several centuries, 32 Galliard Carols for Christmas, contains not only such favourites as "Silent Night" and "We wish you a merry Christmas", but also newer carols including "Carol for Christingle", written by Fred Pratt Green for Norwich Cathedral and "The Wassail of Figgy Duff" - "traditional words and music invented by Michael Flanders".
ISBN 0 85249 495 5

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[M = Music; W = Words]
Angel Gabriel (W: Sabine Baring Gould)
Carol for Christingle (W: Fred Pratt Green)
Christmas Candle (W: Donald Swann)
Down in yon forest (M: arr. R Vaughan Williams)
Fum, Fum, Fum! (W: Bernard Braley)
God's own Son (W: Fred Pratt Green; M: Allen Percival)
In the bleak midwinter (W: Christina Rossetti; M: Harold Darke)
Longfellow's Carol (W: H W Longfellow; M: Allen Percival)
Lord of the Dance (WM: Sydney Carter)
Mary had a boy-child
Mistletoe Carol (W: Fred Pratt Green)
Noël de Thevet (W: E Bliss Reed; M: arr. D Stanley Smith)
Noel, raise the roof (W: Bernard Braley)
Nowell, sing we
O Christmas Tree (W: Bernard Braley)
Rejoice and be merry
Resonet in laudibus (W: Bernard Braley)
Rocking Carol (W: Margaret Tausky)
Silent Night (W: Joseph Mohr; M: Franz Grüber)
Song and Dance (W: Michael Hewlett; M: John Maynard)
Song to the Christmas Tree (W: Bernard Braley; M: Edvard Grieg)
Standing in the Rain (WM: Sydney Carter)
Susanni (W: Marie Chatterley)
There is no rose
There was a pig
This endris night
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Wassail of Figgy Duff (WM: Michael Flanders)
Wassail Song (M: arr. R Vaughan Williams)
We wish you a merry Christmas
What tidings bringest thou?
Wind through the olive trees

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32 Galliard Spirituals Ref: B587

Compiled by June Boyce-Tillman
32 Galliard Spirituals has been compiled by June Boyce-Tillman after working for many years with children and adults of all races and creeds. In the collection, she traces through the songs the authentic record of how the Negro community thought, felt and managed to survive in 18th century Maryland and 19th century Louisiana on the hope of freedom still echoed in Dr Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech. The songs are not only history but they are amongst the most moving and beautiful of all Western songs both in their poetry and in their simple, direct melody . . . and above all in their freedom to sing rhythm against a steady beat.
ISBN 0 85249 587 0

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Blind man stood on the way and cried (C - C)
Come on up to the bright glory (E - D)
Do, Lord, remember me (D - D)
Don't be weary, traveller (D - G)
Don't leave me, Lord (E - B)
Every time I think about Jesus (B - D)
Free at last (D - C#)
Go chain the lion down (B - D)
He never said a mumbaling word (D - D)
He's just the same today (D - D)
If-a you can't come (B - D)
In that great getting-up morning (C - C)
Look-a how they done my Lord (D - B)
Lord, I wish I had an eagle's wings (C# - D)
My Lord, what a morning (D - B)
Oh, Mary don't you weep (E - C)
Oh, the heaven is shining (E - B)
O Mary, what you weeping about (E - C#)
O Mary, where is your baby? (C - E)
Poor li'l Jesus (D - E)
Prayer is the key of heaven (D# - C#)
Seek and you shall find (C - A)
Sing Hallelu (A - D)
Somebody's knocking at your door (B - D)
Sun don't set in the morning (D - D)
Tell me what month was Jesus born in (D - D)
This is the man (E - B)
Trouble was hard (E - E)
Wade in the water (B - E)
When Christ the Lord was here below (E - C#)
Wonder where is good old Daniel (B - D)
You may bury me in the east (D - D)

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Mediaeval Carols (IV) Ref: MB4

Edited by John Stevens
The contents of this volume are the extant polyphonic settings of 15th-century carols in English and Latin, here collected for the first time. Though generally religious in content, the carol was essentially a verse form, and apparently the only one extensively cultivated by English musicians.
First published in 1952, revised 1958 and reprinted 1970, 1976.

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Price: £62.00

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Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire Ref: D97

Collected and arranged by E. M. Leather and R. Vaughan Williams
Edited by Roy Palmer

SATB unaccompanied, or voice(s) and piano
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First published in 1920, the Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire have been entirely reset in a new and practical format, with the choral arrangements of the songs underlaid for all the verses and presented in open score alongside voice-and-keyboard versions for accompanied or solo performance. An acknowledged authority in the subject, Roy Palmer has provided fascinating notes on the texts and music. His preface places the collection in the context of Vaughan Williams's lifelong interest in folk song both as collector and creative artist, and of his collaboration with Ella Mary Leather, who did much to preserve the folklore heritage of her native county and of the gipsy tradition in particular. The Twelve Traditional Carols from Herefordshire have been recorded by baritone Derek Welton and pianist Iain Burnside on Albion Records ALBCD013.

CONTENTS
1 The Holy Well (First Version)
2 The Holy Well (Second Version)
3 Christmas Now is Drawing Near at Hand
4 Joseph and Mary (to the tune of There is a Fountain)
5 God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
6 New Year's Carol
7 The Angel Gabriel
8 On Christmas Day
9 Dives and Lazarus
10 The Miraculous Harvest (or The Carnal and the Crane)
11 The Saviour's Love
12 The Seven Virgins (or Under the Leaves)

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