The Oxford Book of Descants (Melody Edition)

Description

Melody Edition

The full music edition provides an organ part for each descant while the melody edition contains the descants alone, without their accompanying tunes.

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.

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.

Contents:
• ABBOT'S LEIGH (in C and D) (Antony Baldwin )
• ABERYSTWYTH (Alan Gray )
• ABRIDGE (in D and C) (Christopher Gower )
• ADESTE, FIDELES (David Willcocks )
• ALLELUIA No. 1 (Anthony F Carver and Donald Davison )
• ANGEL VOICES (in D and C) (John Cooke )
• ANGELS' SONG (Donald Davison )
• ANIMA CHRISTI (in F and G) (David Willcocks )
• AURELIA (Adrian Lucas )
• AUS DER TIEFE (James Vivian )
• AUSTRIA (in E flat and F) (Thomas H Ingham )
• BEAUTY FOR BROKENNESS (Ashley Grote )
• BETHLEHEM (in F and G) (David Willcocks )
• BLAENWERN (in G and F) (John Scott )
• CARLISLE (in E flat and D) (Sydney H Nicholson )
• COE FEN (Kenneth Naylor )
• CORVEDALE (Maurice Bevan )
• CRIMOND (Donald Davison )
• CROSS OF JESUS (in G and F) (Paul Leddington Wright )
• CRUCIFER (in D and C) (Harold Darke )
• CWM RHONDDA (John Scott )
• DARWALL'S 148th (in D and C) (Sydney H Nicholson )
• DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (in C and B flat) (Simon Lole )
• DIX (in A flat and G) (John Wilson )
• DOMINUS REGIT ME (in G and F) (Sydney H Nicholson )
• DOWN AMPNEY (David Willcocks )
• DUKE STREET (Philip Moore )
• EASTER HYMN (John Rutter )
• EISENACH (Harrison Oxley )
• ENGLEBERG (in F and G) (David Willcocks )
• EVENTIDE (David Willcocks )
• FAITHFUL ONE (David Thorne )
• FAITHFULNESS (in E flat and D) (Paul Leddington Wright and Robert Prizeman )
• FATHER, WE ADORE YOU (William Llewellyn )
• FATHER, WE LOVE YOU (William Llewellyn )
• FOREST GREEN (Thomas Armstrong )
• GERONTIUS (in A flat and G) (Robert Gower )
• GOD OF THE POOR (Ashley Grote )
• GOD REST YOU MERRY (Christopher Robinson )
• GUITING POWER (John Barnard )
• HANOVER (Alan Gray )
• HEINLEIN (James Vivian )
• HELMSLEY (John Rutter )
• HIGHWOOD (Robert Gower )
• HOLY IS THE LORD (in A and G) (Ashley Grote )
• HYFRYDOL (John Scott )
• IN CHRIST ALONE (in D and E flat) (Ashley Grote )
• IRBY (in F and G) (Benjamin Lamb )
• JESUS IS LORD (in G and A flat) (James Whitbourn )
• LASST UNS ERFREUEN (in D and E flat) (Christopher Gower )
• LAUDES DOMINI (in C and B flat) (Reginald Thatcher )
• LAUDS (John Wilson )
• LAUS DEO (Sydney H Nicholson )
• LOBE DEN HERREN (in F and G) (Harrison Oxley )
• LORD OF THE YEARS (John Barnard )
• LUCKINGTON (William Mathias )
• LUX EOI (Richard Lloyd )
• MACCABAEUS (in E flat and D) (Malcolm Archer )
• MELCOMBE (in E flat and D) (Alan Gray )
• MELITA (Alan Gray )
• MENDELSSOHN (in F and G) (David Willcocks )
• MERTON (in F and E) (Alan Gray )
• MILES LANE (Alan Gray )
• MONKLAND (John Wilson )
• MONKS GATE (Cyril Winn )
• MORNING HYMN (David Willcocks )
• MOSCOW (Alan Gray )
• NEANDER (Sydney H Nicholson )
• NICAEA (James Vivian )
• NOEL (David Willcocks )
• NUN DANKET (in F and E flat) (William H Harris )
• ORIEL (Alan Gray )
• PRAISE, MY SOUL (Alan Gray )
• PRAXIS PIETATIS (in F and G) (Harrison Oxley )
• PUER NOBIS NASCITUR (John Scott )
• QUAM DILECTA (John Henderson )
• REDHEAD No. 46 (Sydney H Nicholson )
• REGENT SQUARE (David Thorne )
• REPTON (John Scott )
• RICHMOND (in F and G) (Edward Bairstow )
• ROCKINGHAM (in D and E flat) (Unknown )
• SAFFRON WALDEN (Simon Lole )
• ST ALBINUS (in C and B flat) (John Henderson )
• ST ANNE (John Scott )
• ST CLEMENT (in A flat and G) (David Blackwell )
• ST COLUMBA (Donald Davison )
• ST DENIO (in A flat and G) (Cyril Winn )
• ST GEORGE'S WINDSOR (Robert Gower )
• ST HELEN (Christopher Gower )
• ST MAGNUS (John Wilson )
• SEEK YE FIRST (William Llewellyn )
• SINE NOMINE (Cyril Winn )
• SING HOSANNA (in E flat and D) (Traditional )
• SLANE (John Wilson )
• SLANE (David Thorne )
• SONG 34 (Donald Davison )
• STUTTGART (in G and F) (Antony Baldwin )
• THE SERVANT KING (Ashley Grote )
• THORNBURY (David Willcocks )
• TRURO (in D and C) (John Wilson )
• UNSER HERRSCHER (Sydney H Nicholson )
• VENI EMMANUEL (metrical version) (Robert Gower )
• VENI EMMANUEL (plainchant version) (Robert Gower )
• WAREHAM (in B flat and A) (Sydney H Nicholson )
• WAS LEBET (Donald Davison )
• WESTMINSTER ABBEY (in A flat and G) (John Rutter )
• WINCHESTER NEW (Alan Gray )
• WINCHESTER OLD (Alan Gray )
• WOODLANDS (Richard Lloyd )