Weddings for Choirs edited by MARTIN, Judy and PARSHALL, Peter Price: £11.95 ISBN-10: 0-19-353265-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-353265-6 SATB accompanied & unaccompanied Level: very easy to moderately difficult Publication date: 12 December 2002 Series: . . . for Choirs Collections Search for titles in the same series	Ordering
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Description

OUP's choral publishing is admired worldwide and includes an impressive collection of anthologies for every type of choir. These volumes include the vital standard repertoire plus less well-known works, and have become indispensible to choral singers worldwide.

for SATB, accompanied and unaccompanied
A comprehensive and versatile collection of 40 appropriate and inspiring pieces. Weddings for Choirs contains a careful selection of pieces chosen to complement every part of a wedding service, whether sacred or secular, grand or intimate. Many of the traditional pieces are presented here in new practical arrangements or editions to help choirs whose rehearsal time is limited.

Suitable for

Weddings

Contents

Parshall	A new commandment
Martinson	Arise, my love
Gounod & J. S. Bach arr. Blackwell	Ave Maria
Schubert arr. G. L. Martin	Ave Maria
Stanford	Beati quorum via
MacBeth Bain arr. Jacob	Brother James's Air
Clements	Come my way, my truth, my life
Carter	Deep peace
Brahms	Geistliches Lied
Vivaldi	Gloria in excelsis Deo (from Gloria)
Carter	Go before us, O Lord
Carter	God be in my head
Rutter	God be in my head
Handel	Hallelujah Chorus
Wagner arr. Archer & Editors	Here comes the bride!
Moore	How do I love thee?
Willan	I beheld her, beautiful as a dove
Bairstow	I sat down under His shadow
Ledger	I will lift up mine eyes
Chilcott	If ye love me
Chilcott	Irish Blessing
J. S. Bach arr. Archer & Parshall	Jesu, joy of man's desiring
Mozart arr. J. Martin	Laudate Dominum
Mathias	Let the people praise thee, O God
Chilcott	Love
Finzi	My lovely one
Rutter	My true love hath my heart
Crew	Now lies the earth
J. S. Bach arr. Parshall	Now thank we all our God
Batten	O sing joyfully
Franck arr. Rutter	Panis angelicus
Harper	Psalm 150
Archer & G. F. Handel	Rejoice!
Anon	Rejoice in the Lord, alway
Willan	Rise up, my love, my fair one
Walton	Set me as a seal
Jackson	Song
Martinson	The Invitation
Rutter	The Lord bless you and keep you
Bairstow	Though I speak with the tongues of men

Reviews

• 'Another useful choir resource book is Oxford University Press's Weddings for Choirs. The editors have done a good job in bringing together, in one volume, what the publishers call 'Forty perfect SATB pieces.' -Christopher Field, Music Teacher, Jan 04
• 'This volume of 40 pieces has been put together to provide a wealth of beautiful music for weddings and will be a useful resource for wedding couples and choirs alike when planning the special day . . . Any choir that sings for non-church weddings will be aware of the difficulties of finding suitable secular music for a registry office ceremony; this volume caters for both church and non-church weddings. This very helpful and wide-ranging collection is highly recommended.' -Church Music Quarterly December 03
• 'Most organists will have a ready collection of well thumbed wedding albums which they merrily fling into their briefcases on the way to any wedding near or far. Rather less plentiful, however, are collections of choral msuic for weddings, so this intelligent selection (in the . . . for Choirs series) is a most welcome addition to the catalogue . . . One aspect which distinguishes this new compilation is the quality and quantity of new or less standard music . . . It was a good idea to include pieces such as Batten's O sing joyfully and Rejoice in the Lord (anon) alongside classic miniatures by Finzi, Ledger, Bairstow and Walton, as this provides not only excellent vlaue by also caters for a wide range of moods and tastes.' -Ken Burton, Choir and Organ July 03
• 'Wedding for Choirs, the latest in OUP's long-running series of choral anthologies, is cannily placed to fill a gap in the market . . . Most of the pieces score comfortably for SATB with occasional splitting of voices, and there is a good balance of accompanied and unaccompanied items, important in a wedding context where quality or availability of accompanying instruments cannot always be guaranteed.' -The Singer June 03

The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.

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