Music library
We are seeking a new home for our choir music library
The City of Oxford Choir music library is a treasure trove of classical SATB repertoire, from well-known classics to unusual gems.
Hire from our library
We list here a selection of the works that are available to hire (approx 40 copies each)
Please contact librarian@oxfordchoir.org if you're interested in borrowing from our library
The entire library comprises over 400 works!
Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232 : Sanctus
Barber Sure on this Shining Night
Barber The Coolin' (Reincarnations no. 3)
Bax Of a rose I sing
Bridge Five Part Songs
Kerensa Briggs A Tender Shoot
Britten Five Flower Songs
Burleigh Behold that star
Carissimi Jephte
Copland Simple Gifts
Jonathan Dove In Beauty may I walk
Dvorak In Nature's Realm (Songs of Nature)
Erb Shenandoah
Finzi Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
Traditional French The Huron Carol (arr. Sarah MacDonald)
Ola Gjeilo Sanctus London
Gretchaninov Missa Festiva
Grieg Våren (Last Spring)
Halloran Witness (arr. Dick Bolks)
Howells The Scribe
Ireland The Hills
Jeffreys A Music Strange
Joubert There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
Kelly A Cradle of Carols
Kodaly Mátrai Képek (Matra Pictures)
Kodaly The Peacock
Leighton Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child
Mathias Ave Rex
Mathias The Lord's Prayer
Matthias Hodie Christus natus est
Cecilia McDowell Adore te devote
Cecilia McDowell I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
Becky McGlade The Oak
Messiaen O sacrum convivium
Part Magnificat
Part The Beatitudes
Poulenc Christmas Motet No. 2: Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite
Quilter Non Nobis, Domine
Quilter The pretty birds do sing
Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil - Vespers - Bogoroditse Devo (Ave Maria)
Rachmaninov The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31, movt 14 : The Lord's Prayer
Ravel Trois Chansons
Alec Roth Earthrise
John Rutter Banquet Fugue
Seiber Yugoslav folk songs
Sondheim Sunday
Stenhammar Three Choral Ballads
Tate Dry Bones
Tavener Today The Virgin
Tippett Five Negro Spirituals from "A Child of our Time"
Joseph Twist Lament
Various 100 Carols for Choirs (ed. John Rutter)
Vaughan Williams Antiphon
Vaughan Williams Fain I would change that note
Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs
Vaughan Williams Just As The Tide Was Flowing
Vaughan Williams Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams Lord, thou hast been our refuge
Vaughan Williams Love is a Sickness
Vaughan Williams O Mistress Mine
Vaughan Williams Sweet day
Vaughan Williams The willow song
Vaughan Williams Three Elizabethan Songs
Villette Hymne a la Vierge
Villette O Magnum Mysterium
Williamson Ascendit Deus
Library storage
The library comprises around 400 pieces of SATB repertoire stored in about 100 labelled A4 size boxes of varying height, with approx. 40 copies per score. The library is well organised in alphabetical order and the copies are good quality and numbered (we no longer keep print-outs). Roughly 10m of shelving is required to house the library; or if the boxes were stacked on top of one another they would be about 12 metres high.
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We are seeking a new home for our library and are interested in sharing this valuable resource with other choirs or organisations in return for helping with storage. If you are interested or have any potential contacts we would love to hear from you. Please contact librarian@oxfordchoir.org.
