Free Advent and Christmas carols for choirs
Sixteen of the 24 carols on The Patmos Book of Carols have free scores, nineteen editions in all for Advent and Christmas, free to read online and free to download as PDFs (sign in free). Many are new settings and arrangements of carols and tunes you know, and the rest are new carols. They come from the double album by TONUS PEREGRINUS.
New settings and arrangements of familiar carols
- The Angel Gabriel, Traditional Basque, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- Let all mortal flesh keep silence, Antony Pitts, Traditional French (score page)
- It came upon the midnight clear, Jonathan Pitts, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- In the bleak mid-winter, Gustav Holst, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- Hark! the herald angels sing [SATB with descant and coda], Jonathan Pitts, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- Hark! the herald angels sing [for schools and churches: SATB - chorus and verses], Jonathan Pitts, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- Hark! the herald angels sing [for schools and churches: melody - chorus and verses], Jonathan Pitts, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- Hark! the herald angels sing [voice, with coda], Jonathan Pitts, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- Once in royal David's city, Henry Gauntlett, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- On Christmas Night (The Sussex Carol), Traditional English, arr. Antony Pitts and Alexander L'Estrange (score page)
- Lully Lulla (The Coventry Carol), Robert Croo and Thomas Mawdycke, arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
- Unto us is born a Son, Traditional (Puer nobis nascitur), arr. Antony Pitts (score page)
New carols and early music
- Miryam's Lullaby, Antony Pitts (score page)
- The Oxen, Antony Pitts (score page)
- For unto us a Child is born, Antony Pitts (score page)
- Lord Jesus, come, John Pitts (score page)
- O Holy of Holies, Antony Pitts and John Sheppard (score page)
- An Earthly Tree, William Byrd (score page)
- Alleluya - a nywe werk, Anonymous (The Selden Carol Book, c.1430) (score page)
Also on the album
The other eight carols of the album are published in print. Listen to each on the album, and order the printed edition from the publisher or the composer.
- Advent 'O' Carol, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange: Listen; Order from the RSCM
- I will hold Him, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange: Listen; Order from the RSCM
- Love came down at Christmas, Alexander L’Estrange: Listen; Order from Faber Music
- A Jolly Wassel-Bowl, Richard Eteson (after Gallants Come Away): Listen; Order from the composer
- Lute-book Lullaby, Alexander L’Estrange: Listen; Order from Faber Music
- In the bleak midwinter, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange: Listen; Order from the RSCM
- The Holy Innocents, Richard Eteson: Listen; Order from the composer
- Song of the Angels, Alexander L’Estrange (with a generous dollop of Orlando Gibbons): Listen; Order from Faber Music
Each score opens in a reader you can page through. To download the PDF, sign in free.
Hear the recordings and read the story and booklet at The Patmos Book of Carols. Earlier, The Naxos Book of Carols gathers 24 carols arranged by Antony Pitts, recorded by TONUS PEREGRINUS for Naxos and published in print by Faber Music.