The New Novello Book of Short and Easy Anthems

The New Novello Book of Short and Easy Anthems is an exciting collection of music for choirs of all sizes and abilities, and a useful new resource for choirs. The pieces have been carefully chosen to offer a selection of interesting contemporary pieces alongside older and more well-known anthems. At the same time, it is recognised that many choirs have limited rehearsal time and, frequently, limited vocal resources, and the collection aims to provide works that are easily and quickly learned, with few splits in voice parts. In addition, many of the anthems can be adapted to work as unison settings with accompaniment, or in other flexible forms.


Andrew Cusworth Adam: lay ibounden

Thomas Ford: Almighty God, which hast me brought

Ralph Allwood: Blessing

Alan Bullard: Blest are the pure in heart

James Davy: And they shall beat their ploughshares

Martin Baker: Christus vincit

Benjamin Britten: Corpus Christi Carol

Ashley Grote: Cradle Song

Matthew Owens: Crux fidelis

Peter Miller: Draw near with faith

Johann Christoph Bach: Es is nun aus mit meinem Leben

David Briggs: God be in my head

David Terry: For the Fallen

Arthur Hutchings: God is gone up

Rupert Jeffcoat: Hear my voice, O Lord

Andrew Wells: Heaven

Herbert Howells: God be in my head

Lennox Berkeley: I sing of a maiden

John Bull: In the departure of the Lord

Anton Bruckner:  In monte Oliveti

Dan Locklair: The Lord bless you and keep you

Peter Miller: Lord, I am not worthy to receive you

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Lord’s Prayer

Henry Purcell: Miserere

John Tavener: Mother of God, here I stand

Adam Harvey: My Jesu, sleep

James Davy: O salutaris Hostia

Charles Wood: O for a lay! 

Henry Ley: A Prayer of King Henry VI

David Terry: O salutaris hostia

Christopher Borrett: The Two Adams

Jonathan Wikeley: A Thin Place

Andrew Wells: Tu es Petrus

Richard Lloyd: View me, Lord

Rupert Jeffcoat: Weigh my heart

Thomas Tallis: Why fum’th in fight

Orlando Gibbons: Veni Creator