Nowell Sing We

Back in 2011 I was asked by a fellow choral singer to write a new SATB a cappella arrangement of Good King Wenceslas for a specific reason – the excellent arrangement by David Willcocks in the Carols for Choirs 1 book had an essential organ part and thus was not easily performed by an unaccompanied choir. I wrote the arrangement the following year and started to add a few further a cappella arrangements, particularly for carols where a suitable unaccompanied arrangement is not widely available. My approach to arranging is to aim for simple and straightforward treatments, with little divisi or elaborate harmonic or rhythmic effects.

This project continued on for just over a decade and the final result is the book Nowell Sing We, which includes fifty Christmas carols arranged for SATB unaccompanied.

CONTENTS

A great and mighty wonder
Flemish Carol
Angels from the realms of glory
Away in a manger (Kirkpatrick tune)
Away in a manger (Murray tune)
Away in a manger (Normandy tune)
Berger, secoue ton sommeil profond!
Come, thou Redeemer of the earth
Come all you worthy gentlemen
Deck the hall
Jingle, bells
Ding dong! Merrily on high
Down in yon forest
Gaudete
God rest you merry, gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas
Wexford Carol
Hark! The herald-angels sing
I saw three ships
Il est né le divin enfant
In the bleak mid-winter
Infant holy, infant lowly
The cherry tree carol
Joy to the world!
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Rocking
Coventry carol
Masters in this hall
Noël nouvelet
Sans Day Carol
Of the Father’s love begotten
O holy night
Sussex Carol
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Past three a clock
Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
Quem pastores laudavere
See amid the winter’s snow
Silent Night
The Infant King
Still, still, still
Gabriel’s Message
The seven joys of Mary
The first Nowell
The holly and the ivy
The Three Kings
Unto us is born a son
Three Kings of Orient
What child is this?
While shepherds watched their flocks by night