First Things First: At Home
Various Composers
The latest edition of First Things First: At Home allows your brass players to contribute to your virtual carol service. These five duets include In the bleak midwinter, Good King Wenceslas, The first Nowell, We three kings, and Jingle Bells. Available resources: PDF sheet music.
View the Collection | Instrumental Solo - Brightest and Best
John F. Bridge arr. Alan Williams
A brand new setting of the tune Spean, arranged as a flexible instrumental solo with piano accompaniment. Available resources: PDF sheet music in Bb and Eb, mp3 backing track, and mp4 performance video featuring Gary Fountain.
View the Collection | Instrumental Solo - Past Three O' Clock
arr. Alan Williams
A new swing-waltz arrangement of Past three o'clock, with piano accompaniment. Available resources: PDF sheet music in Bb and Eb, mp3 backing track, and mp4 performance video featuring Andrew Piper.
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Euphonium Solo - Nativity's Story
Andrew Blyth
A beautiful solo, featuring Ray Steadman-Allen's Long long ago, and James R. Murray's The manger scene. Available resources: PDF sheet music, mp3 backing track, and mp4 performance video featuring Gary Rose.
View the Collection | Piano Solo - Away in a Manger
Robert Redhead
A piano transcription of Robert Redhead's well-known arrangement of Normandy Carol, originally published in The Musical Salvationist in July 1972 and later in The General Series brass band journal no. 1653 in 1974. Available resources: PDF sheet music, and mp4 performance video featuring Michael Stayner.
View the Collection | Piano Solo - Silent Night!
Franz Gruber arr. Andrew Blyth
A very simple but beautiful piano offertory, intended for less experienced players. Available resources: PDF sheet music.
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Piano Solo - Announcing Joy!
Kenneth Downie
A bright arrangement of Sussex Carol for piano. Available resources: PDF sheet music, and mp4 performance video featuring Kenneth Downie.
View the Collection | Piano Solo - O Little Town
arr. Karl Westwood
The popular tune Forest Green arranged for piano. Available resources: PDF sheet music, and mp4 performance video featuring Karl Westwood.
View the Collection | Male Voice Quartet - Deck the Hall
Thomas Oliphant arr. Andrew Blyth
This a cappella arrangement of Deck the hall is scored for two Tenors and two Basses and should be a fun addition to your service. Available resources: PDF sheet music, and mp4 performance video featuring Seb Farrall.
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Vocal Solo - The Stable Door
Arch R. Wiggins & Wilfred Kitching arr. Alan Williams
A vocal solo arrangement of Arch Wiggins & Wilfred Kitching's lovely song The stable door. Available resources: PDF sheet music, mp3 backing track, and mp4 performance video featuring Lauren Westwood.
View the Collection | Vocal Solo - The Angelic Song
John van Gulik & Andrew Blyth
With these lyrics, John van Gulik entered and won Music Editorial's Wonderful Words competition in 2019. Andrew Blyth has sensitively set these words for full choir, although it works just as well for solo voice. Available resources: PDF sheet music, mp3 backing track and mp4 performance video featuring Karl Westwood.
View the Collection | A Starry Night
Joy Webb
Singing company members from Birmingham Citadel and Lurgan corps join together in this virtual choir video to sing Major Joy Webb's much-loved song A starry night. Available resources: mp4 performance video.
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Come Into Our World
Joy Webb
A new virtual choir recording by the Sing to the Lord recording choir of Major Joy Webb's moving Come into our world, originally published in the July 1978 issue of The Musical Salvationist. Available resources: mp4 performance video.
View the Collection | Sleep, Holy Babe
Edward Caswell & Alan Williams
Major Lorraine Chaundy has produced a beautiful pencil-drawn representation of Mary and the baby, Jesus, accompanied by this brand new setting of Edward Caswell's words Sleep, holy babe. This song was due to be released in the May 2020 issue of Sing to the Lord Mixed Voice Series Volume 27 Part 2. Available resources: mp4 performance video.
View the Collection | Majesty Resides!
Yvonne Field
Major Yvonne Field's beautiful song, Majesty Resides! is published in the May 2015 issue of Sing to the Lord Mixed Voice Series Volume 23 Part 2. Georgia Smith has produced this lovely Bethlehem scene. Available resources: mp4 performance video.
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Carol Accompaniments
Various
These lyrics videos allow your carol service viewers to sing along. A virtual brass and vocal group accompany ten of your favourite carols. These are O come, all ye faithful, Hark! the herald angels sing, Once, in royal David's city, Joy to the world!, While shepherds watched, In the bleak midwinter, Ding dong! merrily on high, O little town of Bethlehem, Away in a manger and Silent Night!. Available resources: 10 x mp4 performance videos.
View the Collection | Piano Underscores
Nicholas Samuel
Captain Nicholas Samuel has provided 6 audio-only piano tracks for you to use as incidental/backing music for your readings, poems or prayers. These tracks are intended to be used flexibly, however Captain Samuel has suggested that the following scripture passages may be particularly relevant to each track:
1. The Prophecy (Isaiah 9:2-7)
2. The Prologue (John 1:1-14)
3. Gabriel tells Mary (Luke 1:26-38)
4. Christ in born in Bethlehem (Luke 2:1-7)
5. To tell as I have seem (Luke 2:8-20)
6. Bringing Gifts (Matthew 2:1-12)
Available resources: 6 x mp3 tracks.
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