Catalogue of works

choir and ensemble

mixed voices: secular
mixed voices: sacred
mixed voices: christmas

upper voices: secular
upper voices: sacred
upper voices: christmas

vocal collections
anthologies
instrumental music

You may view a pdf of the score by clicking on this link (courtesy of the
British Music Information Centre)

Choir and Ensemble

And Peace on Earth
A Cantata for Christmas
female vocalist, children's choir, SATB choir, and ensemble
5tpt(I+flg).2tbn.1btbn.tba-2perc-pno-db(/bgtr)
17 minutes
Text: Elizabeth Jennings
Commissioned by the City of Birmingham Choir for its Christmas Celebration in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, with support from the Birmingham Common Good Trust, the Dumbreck Charity, the John Feeney Charitable Trust, and the Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust. First performance 19 December 2004.
vocal score on sale 0 19 335539 6
score and parts on hire

Canticles of Light
1 Te lucis ante terminum
2 Christe, qui, splendor et dies
3 O nata lux de lumine
SATB choir, upper voice choir, and orchestra OR organ and tubular bells
2.1.2.1-2.0.0.0-timp.tbells-str
Texts: 3 Latin hymns from Liturgia Horarum
14 minutes
Vocal score on sale 0 19 343288 9
Score and parts (accompaniment for organ & tubular bells) on sale 0 19 335538 8
Orchestral parts on hire

Circlesong
A life cycle based on Native American writings
SAB choir (or upper voices only), SATB choir, 2pno, 4perc (optional)
40 minutes
score and parts on hire

Credo
soprano solo, SATB choir, and orchestra
2.2.2.2-2.2.0.0-timp.3perc-str
17 minutes
score and parts on hire

The Dove and the Olive Leaf
SATB chorus, soprano saxophone, strings
text from the Book of Genesis (in Hebrew and English)
6 minutes
Vocal score on sale 0 19 386909 X
Instrumental parts on hire

Follow the Leader!
SAB choir, 4 percussion, 2 marimbas, & glockenspiel
6 minutes
score and parts on hire

Fragments from his Dish
1 Grace - The Clean Platter
2 The Pie
3 Harvest in my Croft
4 Christmas Day - 1666
5 Whines from the Wood
6 Grace
SATB choir (div.) unaccompanied
Texts: Robert Herrick, Ogden Nash, Newcastle Chronicle 1770, William Langland, Samuel Pepys, G. K. Chesterton
16 minutes
vocal score on sale from Banks Music Publications 0 19 343212 9

Friendship is our world
upper voices and piano duet OR orchestra
Texts: Elizabeth Jennings, William Blake, Theresa Rowland, Emily Watts, Becky Sage and Victoria Francis, Hilaire Belloc, Simone Lee, and Anon
20 minutes
score and parts on hire

Jubilate
Soprano or Tenor solo, SATB, brass, piano, and timpani
Text: Book of Common Prayer and a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
16 minutes
Vocal score on sale 0 19 355827 0
Orchestral parts on hire

The Making of the Drum
1 The Skin
2 The Barrel of the Drum
3 The Two Curved Sticks of the Drummer
4 Gourds and Rattles
5 The Gong-Gong
SATB choir and percussion (played by choir: 2 large rainsticks, 2 pairs claves, shaker, low tam-tam played with hard sticks)*
Text: poems by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
13 minutes
* This work may also be performed with SATB choir, a low-pitched Tomtom played with hard sticks, and Marimba only
Marimba part for sale 019 335537 X
Vocal score on sale 0 19 335522 1

Millennium Tales
SS choir, SATB choir, and instrumentalists
2.1.2.1-1.2.2.0-perc-bgtr-pno
Text: Bob Chilcott
30 minutes
Score and parts on hire only

News from Space
Two narrators, jazz singer, SATB youth choir, big band
3fl.2asax.2tsax.barsax-4.4.2.Btn.1-timp.2perc.drums-bgtr-2epno-str
Text: Bob Chilcott
30 minutes
Score and parts on hire only

Singing by Numbers
1 Sing we now merrily
2 The singing of birds
3 Hey down a down!
4 Cruet MacNightshade
5 Sing you now
6 Everyone sang
7 Hey down a down/Sing with thy mouth
SATB and piano or orchestra
2.2.2.2-2.2.0.0-strings
Texts: Thomas Ravenscroft, The Song of Solomon, Spike Milligan, Siegfried Sassoon
10 minutes
Vocal score on sale 0 19 335519 1
Orchestral parts on hire

Songs and Cries of London Town
1 Come buy
2 The flower of Cities all
3 London bells
4 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
5 Good morrow!
SATB choir, piano duet, and percussion (optional)
Text: Anon 17th century
16 minutes
Vocal score on hire OR on sale 0 19 343297 8

Songs for Seven Storeys
upper voice choir, SATB choir, and ensemble
fl(+picc).cl(+ssax)-2perc-pno-va.vc.db
Text: John Mole
25 minutes
Commissioned by the Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital with a grant from the Guy's and St Thomas' Charitable Foundation in celebration of the opening of the Evelina Children's Hospital. First performance Spring 2005.
vocal score on sale 0 19 335544 2
score and parts on hire

A Sporting Chance
SSA choir and brass quintet
Text: Bob Chilcott
Score and parts on hire only

The Twelve Days of Christmas
SATB, piano (OR piano duet), and percussion (bongos, drum, kit, tambourine)
Text: trad.
10 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343327-3
percussion part (2 in set) on sale 0-19-343332-X
piano duet part on sale 0-19-343331-1
single percussion part on sale 0-19-343338-9

Music for Mixed Voices: Secular

Buffalo Gals
SATB and piano
Text: traditional American folksong
2’ 30”
On sale 0 19 343231 5

Dances in the Streets
1 Soho
2 'Paddington' (Regent's Canal)
SATB choir (div.) unaccompanied
Text: Paul Verlaine
On sale 0 19 343334 6

Home, sweet home (arr. Chilcott)
SATB unaccompanied
3 minutes
On sale 0 19 343313 3

The Isle is Full of Noises
SATB unaccompanied
Text: Shakespeare - The Tempest, III.ii
3 minutes
On sale 0 19 335542 6

Londonderry Air
SATB and piano
Traditional Irish text
On sale 0 19 3432773, also available in Encores for Choirs 0 19 343630 2
Orchestral parts on hire

The Modern Man I Sing
1 The Runner
2 The Last Invocation
3 One's-Self I Sing
SATB choir unaccompanied
Text: Walt Whitman
7'
Not yet published

Simple Pictures of Tomorrow
SSAATTBB choir unaccompanied
Text: Paul Eluard (translated by Gilbert Bowen)
7'
on sale 0-19-335541-8

The Singing Heart
Baritone solo, double SATB choir, and handbells
Text: Bob Chilcott
3' 30"
on sale 0-19-343307-9

SongStream 1
10 songs for youth choirs
SAB, accompanied and unaccompanied, ed. Chilcott & Hunt
includes
Aka Tonbo (arr. Chilcott)
Can you hear me?
Give me strength
The Ribbon
Shake the bottle
On sale 0 19 343545 4

Three Israeli Songs
1 Mi y'maleil (0 19 386186 0)
2 Mi zeh hidlik (0 19 386187 9)
3 S'vivon (0 19 386188 7)
SATB choir and piano
Texts: traditional

You and Me
SATB unaccompanied
Text: Elizabeth Jennings
5'
On sale: 0 19 343319 2

Your Face
SAB choir and piano
Text: Anon 17th century (additional lyrics by Bob Chilcott)
2'45"
On sale: 0 19 343299 4

Music for Mixed Voices: Sacred

Advent Antiphons
SSAATTBB unaccompanied
Text: Great O Antiphons
10 minutes
On sale 0-19-343336-2

All my trials
SATB and piano
Text: trad.
3 minutes
On sale 0-19-343329-X
Also published in Spirituals for Choirs 0-19-343537-3

And every stone shall cry
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
Text: Richard Wilbur
On sale 0-19-343330-3

Be thou my vision
SATB choir and orchestra or piano
Fl, ob, 2 cl in Bb, 2 hn in F, hp, str
Text: early Irish, tr. Mary Byrne, versified Eleanor Hull (abr.)
3'15"
Vocal score on sale 0 19 343292 7
Orchestral parts on hire

The Beatitudes
SATB choir and organ
Text:Matthew 5:3-11
On sale 0 19 335547 7

Come unto me
SATB and organ
Text: Matthew 11:28, 29
3 minutes
On sale 0 19 343275 7

Even such is time
SATB with divisi
Text: Sir Walter Raleigh
2 minutes
On sale 0 19 343208 0

Even-song
SATB unaccompanied and soprano solo
Text: George Herbert
On sale 0 19 343339 7

Four Swedish Psalms
1 Herren är min herde
2 Prisa Gud i hans helgedom
3 Herre, till himlen sträcker sig din nåd
4 Jag ser upp emot bergen
SATB and piano or organ
Text: traditional psalms in Swedish
Available only from SK-Gehrmans Musikförlag, Box 6005, S-120 31 Stockholm, Sweden. Licensed through Oxford University Press.

God so loved the world
Soprano solo and SATB choir unaccompanied
Text: John 3:16, 17
2’ 30”
On sale 0 19 343276 5
Also available in Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs 0 19 353111 9

Irish Blessing
SATB choir and piano
Text: traditional
2' 30"
On sale 0 19 343229 3

Just as I am
SATB choir and piano
Text: Charlotte Elliot
4 minutes
On sale 0 19 351149 5

Love
SATB choir (div.) unaccompanied
Text: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2' 40"
On sale 0 19 343207 2

My Prayer
2 soprano solos, SSAATTBB choir unaccompanied
Text: Psalm 102, verse 1
6 minutes
On sale 0 19 343295 1

Now thank we all our God
mSATB choir and organ
On sale 0 19 386906 3

Pange Lingua
SATB unaccompanied
Text: St Thomas Aquinas
3 minutes
On sale in Cantica Nova: 18 New Motets for Choirs 0-19-335536-1

Pray that Jerusalem may have peace
SATB choir unaccompanied
Text: Scottish Psalter, 1650
3 minutes
On sale: 0 19 343309 5

Song
Soprano or tenor solo, SATB choir, and keyboard
Text: Gerard Manley Hopkins
5 minutes
on sale 0 19 343314 1
Also available in Jubilate 0 19 355827 0

Steal Away
SATB choir unaccompanied
Text: American Spiritual
3' 30"
On sale 0 19 343209 9

Sweet Prospect
SATB choir and organ
Text: Samuel Stennett
2' 30"
On sale: 0 19 343303 6

Walk Softly
SATB choir and organ
Traditional Shaker text
3 minutes
On sale: 0 19 343320 6

The Well of Life
SATB choir and piano
Text: from Psalms 36 and 73
2 minutes
NYP

Were you there?
SATB choir unaccompanied
Text: traditional Spiritual
2' 45"
On sale 0 19 343290 0
Also available in Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs 0 19 353111 9

Music for Mixed Voices: Christmas

Advent Antiphons
SSAATTBB unaccompanied
Text: Great O Antiphons
10 minutes
On sale 0-19-343336-2

And every stone shall cry
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
Text: Richard Wilbur
On sale 0-19-343330-3

And Peace on Earth
A Cantata for Christmas
female vocalist, children's choir, SATB choir, and ensemble
5tpt(I+flg).2tbn.1btbn.tba-2perc-pno-db(/bgtr)
17 minutes
Text: Elizabeth Jennings
Commissioned by the City of Birmingham Choir for its Christmas Celebration in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, with support from the Birmingham Common Good Trust, the Dumbreck Charity, the John Feeney Charitable Trust, and the Edward and Dorothy Cadbury Trust. First performance 19 December 2004.
vocal score on sale 0 19 335539 6
score and parts on hire

Christmas-tide
SATB choir and keyboard
Text: Janet Lewis
2’ 20”
On sale 0 19 3432188

For him all stars have shone
Upper voice choir, SATB choir, and piano
Text: Elizabeth Jennings
3' 30"
vocal score on sale 0-19-343301-X
upper voice part on sale 0-19-343335-4

Les anges dans nos campagnes
SATB choir, and organ (with divisions)
Text: Trad. French (English translation by J.Montgomery)
3' 30"
vocal score on sale 0-19-335909-X

The Marvellous Birth
upper voices (SA), and piano

3' 30"
vocal score on sale 0-19-335898-0

Mid-Winter
SATB choir and orchestra or brass ensemble or piano
2.2.2.2-2.0.0.0-hp-str
or 2tpt.hn.tbn.tba-pft-hp(opt)-pno
Text: Christina Rosetti
4 minutes
Vocal score 0 19 343194 7
Orchestral parts on hire

My Dancing Day
SATB unaccompanied
on sale in World Carols for Choirs 0 19 353231 X

The night he was born
SATB, and organ

3' 30"
vocal score on sale 0-19-336070-5

Nova! nova!
SATB choir unaccompanied
Text: Anon 15th century (modernized)
2' 30"
On sale 0 19 343300 1
Also available in Advent for Choirs 0 19 353025 2

Put memory away
SATB and piano
Text: Elizabeth Jennings
On sale 0-19-343337-0
Also available as the fourth movement of And peace on earth 0 19 335539 6

The Shepherd's Carol
SATB choir (div.) unaccompanied
Text: Anon
3' 15"
On sale 0 19 343296 X

This Joy
SATB choir and orchestra or piano or organ
2perc-hp-str
Text: Bob Chilcott
3 minutes
Vocal score NYP
Orchestral parts on hire
May be performed separately or as the second in the set which includes The time of snow

The Time of Snow
SATB choir and orchestra or piano or organ
2perc-hp-str
Text: Bob Chilcott
3 minutes
Vocal score 0-19-343312-5
Orchestral parts on hire
May be performed separately or as the first in the set which includes This Joy

The Twelve Days of Christmas
SATB, piano (OR piano duet), and percussion (bongos, drum, kit, tambourine)
Text: trad.
10 minutes
vocal score on sale 0-19-343327-3
percussion part (2 in set) on sale 0-19-343332-X
piano duet part on sale 0-19-343331-1
single percussion part on sale 0-19-343338-9

Where Riches is Everlastingly
SATB choir and percussion
Text: 16th Century
3' 15"
On sale 0 19 336060 8

Music for Upper Voices: Secular