Description
Book SynopsisThe New Oxford Easy Anthem Book is an outstanding anthem collection, suitable for all church choirs and designed for use throughout the year. The emphasis is placed firmly on providing the highest quality, easy, and accessible anthem settings.
Trade ReviewThis is a useful collection of anthems for any choir, and highly recommended. * Church Music Quarterly December 03 *
It is indeed a great honour and privilege to review what I am certain will become a most sought-after choral resource. Church, school and other amateur choirs across the world can only benefit from the magnificent new anthology The New Oxford Easy Anthem Book . . . What results is a truly versatile, cosmopolitan and satisfying collection of inspired works which is bound to meet the wide-ranging tastes and needs of most church groups. Most of the vocal lines are uncomplicated with comfortable ranges that can be managed by most groups of average ability. * Music Teacher March 2003 *
There is, however, much subtlety in the way this volume's material has been selected . . . Also, there is much that is altogether fresh, with 20 of the 63 items being new compositions or arrangements . . . At well over 200 pages, this represents very good value. * Matthew Greenall, The Singer, Dec 02 *
Since many choirs have to fight tooth and nail for funds to buy music, purchasing a collection can be a very cost-effective way of 'kitting out' your choir. The New Oxford Easy Anthem Book will not provide something appropriate for every Sunday; however, there is enough in this collection to make it a very useful resource. If you haven't got the earlier edition, or your copies are in tatters, The New Oxford Easy Anthem Book will be a valuable resource for your parish choir. * Patrick Geary, Music and Liturgy Summer 2002 *
At a time when there is so much bad music being produced for use in churches, I found it heartening to browse through an anthology of good quality material like this. Anyone starting up a church choir from scratch with novice singers, or trying to run an established choir with fluctuating or greatly reduced resources, should find it invaluable. * Clare Stevens, Choir and Organ, May/June 2002 *
Table of ContentsAdvent Message ; And I saw a new heaven ; Ave Maria ; Ave verum corpus ; Ave verum corpus ; Ave verum corpus ; Be thou my vision ; Brother James' Air ; Cantate Domino ; Christ is our Cornerstone ; Christ the Lord is risen again ; Come, Holy Ghost ; Come, ye faithful ; Day by day ; Drop, drop slow tears ; Far away, what splendour comes this way ; Fear not, O land ; For all thy saints ; For the beauty of the earth ; God be in my head ; God be in my head ; God so loved the world ; Holy, holy, holy ; Holy Spirit, truth divine ; Hosanna to the Son of David ; How brightly beams the morning star! ; I give you a new commandment ; I will thank thee, O Lord ; If ye love me ; Jesu, joy of man's desiring ; Jesu, the very thought of thee ; Jesu, the very thought of thee ; Joy is come! ; King of all ages, throned on high ; Lead me, Lord ; Let us now praise famous men ; Litany to the Holy Spirit ; Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake ; Lord, I trust thee ; Love divine, all loves excelling ; Loving Shepherd of thy sheep ; My eyes for beauty pine ; O come, ye servants of the Lord ; O salutaris Hostia No. 3 ; O Saviour of the world ; O taste and see ; O Thou, whose all-redeeming might ; O vos omnes ; People, look East ; Praise ye the Lord ; Song of Mary ; Star of the East ; Teach me, O Lord ; The Lord goes up ; The peace of God ; There is no rose ; There's a wideness in God's mercy ; This joyful Eastertide ; Thou art God ; Thou knowest, Lord ; Thy perfect love ; Virgin-born, we bow before thee ; Wash me throughly
