Bob Chilcott Songbook - SATB Choir

Bob Chilcott Songbook - SATB Choir

9 Classic Chilcott Songs for Soprano, Alto, Tenor & Bass 

Level: Easy to Moderate 

'Bob Chilcott Songbook - SATB Choir' is an easy to moderate level music book designed for SATB choir performances, suitable for both unaccompanied singing and piano accompaniment. This collection features nine classic songs by Bob Chilcott, including original compositions and arrangements of traditional material, with some pieces published for the first time.

The songbook highlights Chilcott's exceptional talents and versatility. Additionally, orchestral arrangements for select songs such as "Ar Hyd y Nos," "O Danny Boy," and "The Skye Boat Song" are available for hire, including parts for flute, oboe, French horn, harp, and strings. The book contains 72 pages of engaging choral music.

Song Titles Include:

Aka-Tonbo
Ar Hyd y Nos
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Dance in the Street
O Danny boy
Over the Wave
The Lily and the Rose
The Runner
The Skye Boat Song

Reviews:

"The idiom [of 'The Lily and the Rose'] is gentle, restrained and melancholy without being remote, the harmonies warm and plangent without being cloying, the rhythms crisp and often (deliberately) repetitive, the form clean, clear, and concise, the whole well and sensitively conceived for the forces for which it was written, in this case a youth choir. There is originality [in 'The Runner'] in the rhythmic huffings and pantings of the voices that underlay the canonic interplay of the sung parts, and real drive in the latter stages as Whitman's text is abandoned and the wordless, jagged rhythms articulated earlier in the piece take over and are developed into a climactic, jazzy, angular, multi-layered harmony." - Matthew Greenall, The Singer, June 07

"All these pieces are available separately, but this is a worthwhile investment; apart from anything, the pieces are well crafted and fun to sing, and you may find some new Chilcott gems here you otherwise may have missed." - Jonathan Wikeley, Music Teacher Sept 07

About Bob Chilcott:

Bob Chilcott has become one of the world's most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music. His compositional output reflects his wide taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and communicative. He has been involved in choral music most of his life he was a chorister and then a choral scholar in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers for whom he made a number of popular arrangements of well-known songs from all genres.

As well as being a full-time composer he is also a highly acclaimed choral conductor. He has been privileged to conduct many choirs all over the world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers and in 2019 he was appointed Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by many choirs and groups including The King's Singers, Tenebrae, and The BBC Singers.