The Oxford Book Of Descants: Full Music Edtion
Product Specs
- Product Number: 9780193365988
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Barcode: 9780193365988
- Arrangement: Descant & Organ
The Oxford Book of Descants is a definitive collection of 102 descants to well-known hymns, carols, and worship songs. It features descants by a wide range of composers, including contemporary names such as David Willcocks, John Rutter, Malcolm Archer, and Paul Leddington Wright, as well as celebrated twentieth-century church composers such as Alan Gray, Edward Bairstow, Sydney Nicholson, and John Wilson.
Published in both full music and melody editions, this is a fully practical collection, with selected descants presented in different keys and with alternative words to match most popular hymnals. The full music edition provides an organ part for each descant while the melody edition contains the descants alone, without their accompanying tunes.
With a superb range of descants, ably written and sympathetic to the style and harmony of the original tune, this is an excellent resource that will be welcomed by all choirs and church musicians and will enhance hymn singing at church services.
- Antony Baldwin: ABBOT'S LEIGH (in C and D)
- Alan Gray: ABERYSTWYTH
- Christopher Gower: ABRIDGE (in D and C)
- David Willcocks: ADESTE, FIDELES
- Anthony F Carver and Donald Davison: ALLELUIA No. 1
- John Cooke: ANGEL VOICES (in D and C)
- Donald Davison: ANGELS' SONG
- David Willcocks: ANIMA CHRISTI (in F and G)
- Adrian Lucas: AURELIA
- James Vivian: AUS DER TIEFE
- Thomas H Ingham: AUSTRIA (in E flat and F)
- Ashley Grote: BEAUTY FOR BROKENNESS
- David Willcocks: BETHLEHEM (in F and G)
- John Scott: BLAENWERN (in G and F)
- Sydney H Nicholson: CARLISLE (in E flat and D)
- Kenneth Naylor: COE FEN
- Maurice Bevan: CORVEDALE
- Donald Davison: CRIMOND
- Paul Leddington Wright: CROSS OF JESUS (in G and F)
- Harold Darke: CRUCIFER (in D and C)
- John Scott: CWM RHONDDA
- Sydney H Nicholson: DARWALL'S 148th (in D and C)
- Simon Lole: DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (in C and B flat)
- John Wilson: DIX (in A flat and G)
- Sydney H Nicholson: DOMINUS REGIT ME (in G and F)
- David Willcocks: DOWN AMPNEY
- Philip Moore: DUKE STREET
- John Rutter: EASTER HYMN
- Harrison Oxley: EISENACH
- David Willcocks: ENGLEBERG (in F and G)
- David Willcocks: EVENTIDE
- David Thorne: FAITHFUL ONE
- FAITHFULNESS (in E flat and D)
- Paul Leddington Wright and Robert Prizeman:
- William Llewellyn: FATHER, WE ADORE YOU
- William Llewellyn: FATHER, WE LOVE YOU
- Thomas Armstrong: FOREST GREEN
- Robert Gower: GERONTIUS (in A flat and G)
- Ashley Grote: GOD OF THE POOR
- Christopher Robinson: GOD REST YOU MERRY
- John Barnard: GUITING POWER
- Alan Gray: HANOVER
- James Vivian: HEINLEIN
- John Rutter: HELMSLEY
- Robert Gower: HIGHWOOD
- Ashley Grote: HOLY IS THE LORD (in A and G)
- John Scott: HYFRYDOL
- Ashley Grote: IN CHRIST ALONE (in D and E flat)
- Benjamin Lamb: IRBY (in F and G)
- James Whitbourn: JESUS IS LORD (in G and A flat)
- Christopher Gower: LASST UNS ERFREUEN (in D and E flat)
- Reginald Thatcher: LAUDES DOMINI (in C and B flat)
- John Wilson: LAUDS
- Sydney H Nicholson: LAUS DEO
- Harrison Oxley: LOBE DEN HERREN (in F and G)
- John Barnard: LORD OF THE YEARS
- William Mathias: LUCKINGTON
- Richard Lloyd: LUX EOI
- Malcolm Archer: MACCABAEUS (in E flat and D)
- Alan Gray: MELCOMBE (in E flat and D)
- Alan Gray: MELITA
- David Willcocks: MENDELSSOHN (in F and G)
- Alan Gray: MERTON (in F and E)
- Alan Gray: MILES LANE
- John Wilson: MONKLAND
- Cyril Winn: MONKS GATE
- David Willcocks: MORNING HYMN
- Alan Gray: MOSCOW
- Sydney H Nicholson: NEANDER
- James Vivian: NICAEA
- David Willcocks: NOEL
- William H Harris: NUN DANKET (in F and E flat)
- Alan Gray: ORIEL
- Alan Gray: PRAISE, MY SOUL
- Harrison Oxley: PRAXIS PIETATIS (in F and G)
- John Scott: PUER NOBIS NASCITUR
- John Henderson: QUAM DILECTA
- Sydney H Nicholson: REDHEAD No. 46
- David Thorne: REGENT SQUARE
- John Scott: REPTON
- Edward Bairstow: RICHMOND (in F and G)
- Unknown: ROCKINGHAM (in D and E flat)
- Simon Lole: SAFFRON WALDEN
- John Henderson: ST ALBINUS (in C and B flat)
- John Scott: ST ANNE
- David Blackwell: ST CLEMENT (in A flat and G)
- Donald Davison: ST COLUMBA
- Cyril Winn: ST DENIO (in A flat and G)
- Robert Gower: ST GEORGE'S WINDSOR
- Christopher Gower: ST HELEN
- John Wilson: ST MAGNUS
- William Llewellyn: SEEK YE FIRST
- Cyril Winn: SINE NOMINE
- Traditional: SING HOSANNA (in E flat and D)
- John Wilson: SLANE
- David Thorne: SLANE
- Donald Davison: SONG 34
- Antony Baldwin: STUTTGART (in G and F)
- Ashley Grote: THE SERVANT KING
- David Willcocks: THORNBURY
- John Wilson: TRURO (in D and C)
- Sydney H Nicholson: UNSER HERRSCHER
- Robert Gower: VENI EMMANUEL (metrical version)
- Robert Gower: VENI EMMANUEL (plainchant version)
- Sydney H Nicholson: WAREHAM (in B flat and A)
- Donald Davison: WAS LEBET
- John Rutter: WESTMINSTER ABBEY (in A flat and G)
- Alan Gray: WINCHESTER NEW
- Alan Gray: WINCHESTER OLD
- Richard Lloyd: WOODLANDS
- Benjamin Lamb: WOODLANDS
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