Music for Christmas

This page contains the opening pages of music I have written for performance at Christmas.  All the pieces were written specifically for young voices and have been successfully performed in concerts and services by children between the ages of 8 and 13.  Please feel free to download and copy these excerpts.  If you would like to obtain the scores for any of these pieces please email me at:

griffmusic@gmail.com

Etoile de Noël (arrangement)
SA with accompaniment by either 2 clarsachs or piano
First performance at Polwarth Parish Church, Edinburgh, December 2011
Original copyright La Jolie Ronde Ltd.  This arrangement was written with the permission of the original publishers.

We Three Kings (arrangement)
SATB a cappella with divisions

The first performance of this arrangement will be on 13th December 2010 in at the Fairbridge Christmas Concert at St John's Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh

There is No Rose of Such Virtue
SA Choir
organ accompaniment
First performed at St Giles' Kirk, Edinburgh, December 1998

I Sing of a Maiden
SS duet or choir
2 clarsachs
1st Performed in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, December 1998

SS duet or choir
Piano reduction

When Christ Was Born of Mary Free
SS duet or choir
Clarsach or piano
First performed at Central Hall, Edinburgh, December 2000

In the Bleak Midwinter
SS choir
Piano (with optional string quartet)
First performed at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, December 1998

SATB arrangement

What Sweeter Music
SS choir
Piano accompaniment
1st performance December 12th 2010
at the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh