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Draws a parallel between the first Christmas and today's Christmas Eucharist: the miraculous whole being greater than the sum of the parts. Features a baritone solo

A lovely, lyrical work for Christmas, try it for a festival of lessons and carols.

New Mexico composer Verallen Edwards incorporates the Welsh tune All Through The Night into an enchanting Christmas work.

This work is a jubilant setting of the familiar Latin Christmas text. Paul Basler has created an energetic and rhythmic brief work for chorus accompanied by piano and optional horn.

Joyful Christmas anthem with a catchy rhythm, written for SATB and organ

From the Accent On Youth Series. An easy introduction to counterpoint, with emphasis on good diction, each phrase may be done by a section, but it sounds better with four groups of mixed voices.

A light and lilting Christmas piece for youth or adult choir containing keyboard accompaniment, with optional claves and handbells

A light, catchy rhythm makes this Christmas piece appealing, it is easily worked up by most groups.

From our Accent On Youth Series comes this medium-easy, secular piece for secondary chorus that evokes the 'home for the holidays' feeling.

This is something a little different for a sacred Christmas concert. A bit advanced, for wordless four-part choir and organ, with narration of Julie Stine's rather mystical poetry, approximately 5 min...

An interesting concert piece, not especially difficult, with a fifteenth century feel to it. Alternates English and Latin not a translation of the previous phrase, more a comment on it. With the optio...

Quick, light renaissance-type Christmas piece, fairly easy, good for concert or banquet setting

This SATB lullaby is quite accessible and contains a light, happy rhythm with a solo that tells the Christmas story. The soloist can be either male or female, or can be done by the tenor section.

An easily learned, simple, haunting Christmas lullaby, good choice for the young or inexperienced choir

From Gardner's 'Six American Hymns In A Free Style', his setting of the familiar Christmas carol has a pleasant and easy swing to it. The harmonization shifts from verse to verse, adding interest.

Pote's accessible setting of Rossetti's familiar poem begins and ends with solo voice, and features optional handbells and a C instrument.

A simple, heartfelt wish that reaches beyond the glitter and is easily learned by middle or high school groups. The closest it actually gets to being sacred is one phrase, 'may God give you His light'...

First published in 1980, this could have been written for 2001. Ideal for small or inexperienced choirs, this is nothing new in the way of message, but gentle and 'hear-able', with a pleasant tune tha...

An easy, fun, and lighthearted erry Christmas, Happy New Year for high school chorus

A gentle, dance-y, Christmas carol for SATB with flute and cello

A perennial favorite, this Christmas gem is also available in SATB (HMC135), SSA (HMC482), and high or low voice solo in the collection Welcome In The Stranger (HMC174).

A gospel/jazz arrangement of the familiar Christmas piece for secondary choir

A little old-fashioned, this gentle and flowing setting of sixteenth century words by Southwell makes a fine Christmas meditationMedium difficulty

This is a wonderful Advent/Christmas piece for your youth choir (though the adults may like it as well), a gentle folk song.

HMC580 This holiday tune is perfect for a junior high school performance where a secular text is appropriate. Its easy, playful melodic line is sure to please all participants. Composer Gilbert Martin...