Seeking choral music (was: Help please!)

Anglicanphilippines

Hello and Greetings from the Philippines. We are a Traditional Anglican Church choir based here and we lost almost everything apart from our lives in the Great typhoons. We are busy rebuilding everything. We are rebuilding the churches, have made new choir robes, but one of biggest things missing is that we no longer have any music. ( last seen going out to sea) We rescued ONE single hymn book and currently the choristers spend two or three hours before each weeks practice making the music scores by hand. We now have electricity again after several months ( well most of the time) and at last we have internet again!!.

If anybody has any choral music ( fairly easy stuff please) like" Lead me Lord" available on an email, then PLEASE could you email it to us. We are desperate for more music. We will share it with the other choirs in our area.

Thank you. Salamat po.

chonak

I can start by recommending some sources for free choral music downloads:

First of all, here's "Lead me, Lord":
http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/wes-lead.pdf

That is from the Choral Public Domain Library:
http://cpdl.org

Fr. Abel di Marco, in Puerto Rico, has a collection of choral motets, many in Latin:
http://www.mipucpr.org/cantoral/a/

A varied collection of choral works:
http://www.cipoo.net/music_t.html

A partial list of hymns in the 1940 US Episcopal Hymnal (some are omitted for copyright reasons):
http://www.hymnary.org/hymnal/HPEC1940

This publisher gives away a free choral score every month as a download if you sign up for their e-mail list (no charge):
http://www.sjmp.com/

I hope this is useful. Others will have suggestions too, of course!

JulieColl

Smallchurchmusic.com has many free downloadable hymns and resources.

dboothe

Do check out CPDL, as suggested. There is a lot of good stuff there.

Also the Petrucci Music Library. Although, not strictly choral or even sacred, they have quite a bit:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

Since you are Anglican, John Speller's site might be useful. He has a number of English and American anthems, some fairly obscure.
http://spellerweb.net/cmindex/cmindex.html

He also has a complete Anglican chant Psalter:
http://spellerweb.net/cmindex/Chant/Psalms.html

Here are some public domain things I've engraved for the use of my own (Episcopal) choir. Most of these can be found on CPDL, but these links will give you a quick start.

Robert Creyghton's "I Will Arise" (in E-Flat). For the story of the prodigal son.

The same in D.

"Teach Me Thy Way". A full anthem by William Fox (16th c.) - with an unusual ending.

Sir John Goss' "O Saviour of the World"

Richard Farrant, "Hide Not Thou Thy Face"

Purcell, "Thou Knowest, Lord, The Secrets of Our Hearts"

"O Lord, My Trust Is In Thy Mercy," a Victorian verse anthem by a little known composer, King Hall. Neither the solo (soprano or tenor) nor the chorus parts are difficult.

Hope this is useful.

dB

CGM

There are a bunch of free, mostly easy motets here.

And there are some nice a cappella pieces amongst the opera omnia of Card. Bartolucci. All scores are free on his website, here.

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