Christmas Carols
Bernard Trafford’s Christmas Carols
The
first carol,
The Lute-Book Lullaby, is serious in tone and is characterised by a haunting
lyrical beauty that is quite striking.
The next four carols here take old, much-loved carol texts and give them new contexts in an attractive, slightly tongue-in-cheek manner. A Great and Mighty Wonder, Infant Holy and Gabriel’s Message were conceived very much as a set: The First Tree in the Greenwood (an amalgam of two well-known texts, The Sans Day Carol and The Holly and the Ivy) is a later addition in the same mould. They’re fun!
The last, No Room at the Inn, is quite different, written to an
original text for a junior choir with organ accompaniment.
The
Lute-Book Lullaby
SATB, unaccompanied
– versions also available for SSAA and SAAB.
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A
Great and Mighty Wonder
SATB,
unaccompanied.
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Infant
Holy
SATB,
unaccompanied.
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Gabriel’s
Message
SATB, unaccompanied – a
version is also available for S(S)AB.
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The
First Tree in the Greenwood
SATB, unaccompanied.
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No
Room at the Inn
Junior choir, unison
plus descant, with organ
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Ordering Bernard Trafford’s choral music
If you like what you see and hear and would like to order copies of Bernard’s music, all of which is subject to copyright and over which he asserts moral right, please email:
The normal
process is that an order and price are agreed, and then Bernard emails the
purchaser a pdf of the required score with permission to make a specified
number of copies. Other arrangements can be made if necessary, however,
including provision of ready-printed copies.