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 …

Paperback-for SATB and organ This is a jubilant richly-textured anthem. Accessible and uplifting the piece is embroidered throughout with references to Vaughan Williams's revered hymn tune 'Sine Nomine': this eventually emerges in its entirety embellished with a triumphant descant and short passage for congregation.