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Paul Ayres Paul Ayres was born in London, and studied music at Oxford University. He works freelance as a composer and arranger, choral conductor and musical director, and organist and accompanist. He composes mostly choral pieces, solo songs and music for theatre productions, and he is particularly interested in arranging pre-existing music - from folksongs, hymns, jazz standards and nursery rhymes to ‘re-compositions’ of classical works such as Handel's Messiah or Purcell's Funeral Sentences. His work is widely commissioned, published, and performed on both sides of the Atlantic, and beyond. For more information, visit his website. |
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Title, complexity |
Description, links |
Price Band |
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4080
SATB
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**
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Introduce — or close — your Christmas concert with this cheerfully swinging arrangement of a traditional English carol.
2m 15s
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hear a MIDI rendering •
Music: Trad. arr. Paul Ayres. Words: Trad. English.
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D
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4081
SATB
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**
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Bring the spirit of caroling into your Christmas concert with this famous traditional English carol.
3m 00s
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Music: Trad. arr. Paul Ayres. Words: Trad. English.
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C
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4082
3 or 4 equal or mixed voices/instruments
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*
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A Christmas rollick, shanty style, with a peal of bells to finish, flexibly scored for equal or mixed voices and/or instruments.
3m 00s
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Music: Trad. arr. Paul Ayres. Words: Trad. English.
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C
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5036
SSSAA
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**
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An original and highly effective setting of the African American spiritual. Moving and prayerful, with close harmonies and aleatoric sections.
3m 30s
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hear a recording •
Music: Trad. arr. Paul Ayres. Words: Trad. African American.
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D
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