Publisher's Synopsis
(Music Sales America). Merrily On High is an exciting compilation of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for church, cathedral, school, youth and community choirs of "upper voices" trebles or sopranos and altos. Thirty pieces are included, eleven published for the first time. Contents include new settings and arrangements of familiar and lesser known carols, a 3-part Advent Responsory and Mark Blatchly's setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in B flat . Lyrics are in English, French, German, Latin and Polish. Includes invaluable historical and performance notes for each piece by Barry Rose. Contents: A Child Is Born (Peter Moorse) * Adam Lay Ybounden (Michael Hurd) * Brightest and Best (Malcolm Archer) * Come, Thou Redeemer of the Earth (Barry Rose) * Come, Watch with Us This Christmas Night (Malcolm Archer) * Down in Yon Forest * Fum, Fum, Fum * Gabriel's Message * Go, Tell It on the Mountain (John Abdenour) * How Far Is It to Bethlehem? (Geoffrey Shaw) * I Look from Afar (Barry Rose) * Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Mark Blatchley) * Myn Lyking (R.R Terry) * No Room at the Inn (D.A. Connett) * Now the Most High Is Born (Michael Rose) * O This Night Is Born Noel * People, Look East * Rejoice and Be Merry * Say, Where Is He Born? (Felix Mendelssohn) * Silent Night (Franz Gruber) * Still, Still, Still * Sweet Was the Song (Gerald Hendrie) * The Holly and the Ivy * The Shepherds' Farewell (Hector Berlioz) * Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day * Torches! (John Joubert) * Two Polish Carols * Watt's Cradle Hymn (Barry Rose) * When Christ Was Born of Mary Free (John Gardner) * Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance Flowing?
