The New Novello Book of Short and Easy Anthems

The New Novello Book of Short and Easy Anthems is an exciting collection of music for choirs of all sizes and abilities, and a useful new resource for choirs. The pieces have been carefully chosen to offer a selection of interesting contemporary pieces alongside older and more well-known anthems. At the same time, it is recognised that many choirs have limited rehearsal time and, frequently, limited vocal resources, and the collection aims to provide works that are easily and quickly learned, with few splits in voice parts. In addition, many of the anthems can be adapted to work as unison settings with accompaniment, or in other flexible forms.

Andrew Cusworth Adam: lay ibounden
Thomas Ford: Almighty God, which hast me brought
Ralph Allwood: Blessing
Alan Bullard: Blest are the pure in heart
James Davy: And they shall beat their ploughshares
Martin Baker: Christus vincit
Benjamin Britten: Corpus Christi Carol
Ashley Grote: Cradle Song
Matthew Owens: Crux fidelis
Peter Miller: Draw near with faith
Johann Christoph Bach: Es is nun aus mit meinem Leben
David Briggs: God be in my head
David Terry: For the Fallen
Arthur Hutchings: God is gone up
Rupert Jeffcoat: Hear my voice, O Lord
Andrew Wells: Heaven
Herbert Howells: God be in my head
Lennox Berkeley: I sing of a maiden
John Bull: In the departure of the Lord
Anton Bruckner:  In monte Oliveti
Dan Locklair: The Lord bless you and keep you
Peter Miller: Lord, I am not worthy to receive you
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Lord’s Prayer
Henry Purcell: Miserere
John Tavener: Mother of God, here I stand
Adam Harvey: My Jesu, sleep
James Davy: O salutaris Hostia
Charles Wood: O for a lay! 
Henry Ley: A Prayer of King Henry VI
David Terry: O salutaris hostia
Christopher Borrett: The Two Adams
Jonathan Wikeley: A Thin Place
Andrew Wells: Tu es Petrus
Richard Lloyd: View me, Lord
Rupert Jeffcoat: Weigh my heart
Thomas Tallis: Why fum’th in fight
Orlando Gibbons: Veni Creator