The New Oxford Easy Anthem Book

• 63 easy and accessible anthems - scored for SATB with the minimum of divisi, and using comfortable ranges
• Wonderful repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day - favourite and lesser-known pieces from all periods
• 20 pieces and arrangements written for this collection - by Andrew Carter, Bob Chilcott, David Willcocks, Alan Bullard, Malcolm Archer, Simon Lole, and others
• Music for every season of the Church's year - with a seasonal index for easy reference
• Playable accompaniments - simplified wherever possible and mostly suitable for organ without pedals

"This 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

How: Advent Message
Archer: And I saw a new heaven
attrib. Arcadelt: Ave Maria
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Pearsall: Ave verum corpus
Saint-Saëns: Ave verum corpus
Chilcott: Be thou my vision
Macbeth Bain, arr. Alan Bullard: Brother James' Air
Pitoni: Cantate Domino
Thorne: Christ is our Cornerstone
Foster: Christ the Lord is risen again
Attwood: Come, Holy Ghost
Thatcher: Come, ye faithful
How: Day by day
Gibbons, arr. David Blackwell: Drop, drop slow tears
Lully, arr. Georges Bizet: Far away, what splendour comes this way
Harris: Fear not, O land
Bullard: For all thy saints
Carter: For the beauty of the earth
Walford Davies: God be in my head
Wilby: God be in my head
Stainer: God so loved the world
Schubert: Holy, holy, holy
Carter: Holy Spirit, truth divine
Halls: Hosanna to the Son of David
Sweelinck: How brightly beams the morning star!
Aston: I give you a new commandment
Purcell: I will thank thee, O Lord
Tallis: If ye love me
J. S. Bach: Jesu, joy of man's desiring
Lole: Jesu, the very thought of thee
Rudolph: Jesu, the very thought of thee
German, arr. Andrew Carter: Joy is come!
Isom: King of all ages, throned on high
Wesley: Lead me, Lord
Vaughan Williams: Let us now praise famous men
Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit
Farrant: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
Handel: Lord, I trust thee
Willcocks: Love divine, all loves excelling
Ledger: Loving Shepherd of thy sheep
Howells: My eyes for beauty pine
Tye: O come, ye servants of the Lord
Elgar: O salutaris Hostia No. 3
Goss: O Saviour of the world
Vaughan Williams: O taste and see
Plainsong melody, arr. David Blackwell: O Thou, whose all-redeeming might
Corrêa: O vos omnes
Besançon, arr. Malcolm Archer: People, look East
Bullard: Praise ye the Lord
Shephard: Song of Mary
Bullard: Star of the East
Attwood: Teach me, O Lord
Archer: The Lord goes up
Rutter: The peace of God
Ellis: There is no rose
Bevan: There's a wideness in God's mercy
Dutch, arr. Charles Wood: This joyful Eastertide
Bourne: Thou art God
Purcell: Thou knowest, Lord
Rutter: Thy perfect love
Waters: Virgin-born, we bow before thee
Halls: Wash me throughly