Nico Muhly's Looking Up for SATB and Orchestra. Programme note:Looking Up is a piece for large chorus and orchestra and is in three sections played without pause. In the 16th century a variety of psalters in meter were printed in England with the idea of making psalm-singing something that could happen easily at home with the rhyming meter being an aid to memorization. These translations are …

Margaret Rizza is a natural melodist and this setting Mass of the Bread of Life meets the twin demands of parish liturgical music: spiritual depth and accessibility.This new and enlarged edition includes theCommon Worship texts set for congregation and organ or keyboard throughout with optional choral descants and instrumental parts.

This fine book of Psalms and Gospel Acclamations is designed for use with the Common Worship. The tones and responses written for Cantor and Congregation with optional instrumental descants are tuneful straightforward anddiatonically based. They provide practical and attractive settings for Sundays and Principal Feasts.

Seasonal Piano Solos with Optional Instruments-This volume of beloved Christmas carols is a two-in-one sensation. Pianists may play the arrangements as piano solos or perform them in tandem with the optional instrumental descants for something truly special. This unique formatdoubles your peformance options and makes this compilation an excellent value. From tender carols of reflections to sparkli…

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER (Arr.). Standing in the Need of Prayer is a simple, meditative melody with a pleasing, repetitive chord sequence. This arrangement gives you a chance to ‘crank it up a gear’ after the modulation; there is also an opportunity to thicken out the vocal harmonies towards the end with some optional alto notes. Once singers get more confident, you may wish to experiment with oth…

Welcome Don Hart to our Shawnee community of writers with this combination of a classic carol and a beloved classical theme from Smetana's tone poem “The Moldeau.” This theme is full of pathos and ideally suited to thelanguishing cry of Israel as it waits for its Reedemer. The use of lovely descants from C-instruments and B-flat instruments adds to the mystery and longing. Prayerful.

Paperback-This setting for SATB and organ uses a familiar Provencal tune. It is sung mostly in unison and in octaves with one stanza richly harmonized. The piece ends with one of Baldwin's characteristically lovely descants.

Charles Offer arranged by Benoy. Fifteen foreign folk songs arranged for two descants with optional parts for treble and tenor instruments.

57 well known pieces for flute-Winner Scores All For Descant Flute is a song book with a vast collection of 75 well known unaccompanied tunes for Flute edited by Peter Lawrance. Winner Scores All For Descant Flute contains melodies and theme tunes that are incredibly recognisable such as Waltzing Matilda The Addams Family Coronation Street Theme and many more.

Douglas Coombes' Simply A Rag for Descant Recorder and Piano contains original pieces in a wide variety of styles - from Simply A Rag and Little Jazz Waltz to the bouyant sprightly Staccato Polka’ and the loose quality of Impressions of an Enchanted Forest there is much here to enjoy. The Piano accompaniments are straightforward and there is plenty of opportunity to add extra depth and inter…

By Lee Dengler. For SATB choir and piano. The Lee Dengler Choral Series. Christmas, Sacred. Octavo. 12 pages. Published by Hope Publishing Company

By Reginald Unterseher. For SA choir, descant recorder and percussion. Upper Voices. Christmas Choral Leaflet. Vocal score. Duration 2'

By Jacob Van Eyck. Arranged by Thiemo Wind. For Sopranorecorder. First Complete Edition. Baroque. Level: Intermediate. Book. 79 pages. Published by XYZ (German import).

(20 hymn arrangements by Stephen Cleobury). Arranged by Stephen Cleobury. Published by Edition Peters

By Julian Elloway. For descant and organ. This edition: 0. Upper Voices. Sacred, Choral Collection. 128 pages. Published by Oxford University Press

By Greg Gilpin. For SATB choir, piano, descant, percussion. Christmas. Octavo

By Greg Gilpin. For 2-part choir, descant and piano. New Horizons. Secular Christmas. Octavo

Arranged by Jack North. For SAB or Three-Part Mixed Choir (2-part (any combination) (with Opt. Descant)). Christmas Hymntune, Sacred. Choral octavo

Arranged by Vicki Tucker Courtney. For Choir. (SATB, a cappella). Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Spiritual. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Jay Althouse. For Choir. (SATB, a cappella). Choral Octavo. Spiritual, Christmas. Level: Level 4 (grade L4). Choral Octavo. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Composed by Marta Keen, additional music by Gustav Holst. Arranged by McKay Crockett. Choral Octavo. Alfred Choral Designs. Graduation; Secular. 24 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.46333).

Composed by Ruth Elaine Schram. For SATB choir, piano, descant. Christmas. Octavo. Heritage Music Press #15/3330H. Published by Heritage Music Press

Composed by Bob Chilcott. For SATB choir and organ accompaniment. Mixed Voices. Sacred. Level A (very easy). Octavo. 16 pages. Duration 10'. Published by Oxford University Press

By James E. Jr. Moore. For Voices: SATB, optional descant. Piano reduction. Choral Sacred. Level: easy. 2 pages. Published by GIA Publications.

By Giuseppe Sammartini. (Recorder). Dowani Book/CD. BOOK W/CD. Size 9x12 inches. 32 pages. Published by Dowani.