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Shaw worked with choirs right from the start of his career, if not before, as his father James Shaw was an organist and choirmaster at Hampstead Parish Church. At the end of his career Shaw was, in effect, a Bishop of Music for the Diocese of Chelmsford, and was created a Doctor of Music by Lambeth Palace in recognition of his work for the Church.
His many anthems are a testament to his work.
Double Choirs
Female Voices
Male Voices
Mixed Voices
Choir/s with Orchestra
Female Voices
Male Voices
Massed Singing
SATB chorus with solo/i :
Advent
Christmas
Easter
Wedding
General Use
SATB chorus :
Christmas
Harvest
General Use
State Occasions
UNACCOMPANIED
UNACCOMPANIED FOR DOUBLE CHOIRS
MOTET FOR DOUBLE CHOIR (The Lord Hear Thee)
48 pages
Curwen 80726, 1937
COPAC
SING WE MERRILY UNTO GOD OUR STRENGTH (from the Psalms)
24 pages
Novello 1932
UNACCOMPANIED FOR FEMALE VOICES
AN EVENING PRAYER (Ancient Collect, A.D. 590)
4 pages SSA
Curwen 72126, 1945
COPAC
FATHER, WE PRAISE THEE (St. Gregory the Great, (540 - 604))
6 pages SSA
Curwen 72124, 1946
COPAC
GLORIA IN EXCELSIS & GOD BE IN MY HEAD
4 pages SSC
Curwen 7236, 1956
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
UNACCOMPANIED FOR MALE VOICES
FANFARE: Gloria in Excelcis Deo
Duration ½ - ¾ minute without repeat
TTBB
Curwen 50842, 1956
COPAC
HILLS OF THE NORTH, REJOICE (arr. G.W. Cassler)
Hymn TTBB
Curwen 50844, 1957
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
UNACCOMPANIED FOR MIXED VOICES
BLESSED ART THOU, O LORD OF OUR FATHERS
(Song of the 3 Holy Children in the Apocrypha)
6 pages
Novello 1941
EASTER ALLELUIA on the tune ‘Orientus Partibus’
3 pages
Soprano & Tenor solo with SATB chorus
Curwen 80643, 1926
WORLDCAT
HYMN FOR THE QUEEN (Joan Cobbold)
SATB
Novello 1952
I SING OF A MAIDEN arr. Milburn Price
5 verses
OUP 1971
COPAC
Note: Original 1928 version included in A CHRISTMAS READING:
A Service of 10 lessons, 12 carols, FANFARE and hymns.
Novello 1962
A BLESSING: LORD MAKE US INSTRUMENTS OF YOUR PEACE
(St. Francis of Assisi (1182 - 1226)
4 pages
Novello 1957
SERVICE (Rudyard Kipling)
3 pages SATB
Cramer's Choral Library 1928
Note: Unison version IN PRINT
CONTACT US
ACCOMPANIED, with organ unless otherwise stated
FOR CHOIRS WITH ORCHESTRA
for Chanter with Double Choir
duration 3 ½ minutes
OUP 1935Re-orchestration needed
THE GREATER LIGHT (TS Eliot) Available to order
12 pages 7 minutes
for Double Choir, tenor & soprano soli,
organ & timpani.
Curwen 1966
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
GOD’S GRANDEUR (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
15 pages
SATB, organ or orchestra
Roberton 1975
Orchestral parts available to hire
Contact: Goodmusic 01684 773 883
GO FORTH WITH GOD! (Barclay Baron)
10 pages
SATB with piano or strings
OUP 1947
Hire conductor’s score and full orchestra version from OUP
Hire conductor’s score and string orchestra version from OUP
SATB and organ/orchestra
Novello
FEMALE VOICES
A BLESSING : Go Forth into the World in Peace
SSA, duration 2½ minutes
arr. Maurice Jacobson
Curwen 1961
FANFARE: Gloria in Excelcis Deo
Duration ½ - ¾ minute without repeat, SSA,
arr. Maurice Jacobson.
Curwen 1959
COPAC
FOR COURAGE
2 pages SS or SA
Curwen 72125, 1946
COPAC
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN
(from English Folk Songs collected by Cecil Sharp)
6 pages SS or SA
Curwen 72128, 1946
THE TWO DWELLINGS (Thomas Washbourne (1606 - 87))
6 pages SS or SA,
Curwen 72127, 1946
BRITISH LIBRARY
WITH A VOICE OF SINGING
duration 2½ - 3 mins
- SSA: Curwen 72222, 1951
- SA: Curwen 72276, 1953
MENS’ VOICES
ARISE IN US (John Masefield)
4 pages TTBB
Novello 1950
COPAC
½ - ¾ minute without repeat TTBB
Curwen 50842
duration 2½ - 3mins TTBB
Curwen 50843, 1956
MASSED SINGING
AN AIRMAN’S TE DEUM (Air-Commodore F. MacNeece Foster, DSO)
Hymn, Unison/SATB
Curwen 80729, 1937
COPAC
BREAK FORTH INTO THANKSGIVING (Wordsworth)
6 pages Unison/SATB
Novello 1929
COPAC
LORD GOD OF EARTH & SEA & SKIES (W.G. Briggs)
Unison or SATB, hymn
OUP 1944
COPAC
THE KING, O GOD (Robert Bridges)
6 pages Unison
Novello 1936
COPAC
SATB CHORUS WITH SOLI OR SOLO
ADVENT
VOICE OF THE HARBINGER (Cobbold)
for the Festival of St John the Baptist
3 minutes Bass & Treble Soli, SATB
Curwen 80815, 1953
COPAC
CHRISTMAS
6 pages Baritone & Treble soli, SATB
OUP 1931
COME REJOICING (from Laetabundus, 11th Century)
5 pages Soprano & Tenor Soli, SATB
Gordon V. Thompson 1958
Roberton 1975
EASTER
HAIL THEE, FESTIVAL DAY (Bishop Venantius Fortunatus (580 - 609))
8 pages Three-part chorus with Soli, SAT/B
Novello 1958
WEDDING
THIS JOYOUS DAY also for general use, (Edmund Spencer (1553 - 1599))
Duration 3 mins., Solo, SATB
Curwen 1928, 1961
GENERAL USE
CHRIST IS OUR CORNERSTONE
(based on Angularis fundamentum, 7th century)
8 pages Soprano Solo, SATB chorus
Novello 1958
BRITISH MUSIC COLLECTION
GRANT, WE BESEECH THEE (Collect for 21st Sunday after Trinity)
3 pages Soprano Solo, SATB chorus
Novello 1936
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
PRAISE TO THE SPIRIT (from York Processional)
12 pages Tenor or Soprano solo, SATB
Novello 1954
SATB CHORUS
CHRISTMAS
FANFARE: GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO
duration ½ - ¾ minute without repeat
Curwen 80596, 1922, 1950,SATB with Organ & two Trumpets
SATB with Organ & Handbells arr. Dick Averre
GLORIA
composed by request of the Religious Drama Soc. for use in Nativity Plays
2 pages SATB
Curwen 80684, 1931
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
HARVEST
EARTH’S MIGHTY MAKER for Harvest and General Use
7 pages SATB
Novello 1936
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
LET ALL THE PEOPLE PRAISE THEE, O GOD
8 pages Three-part anthem, SAT/B
Novello 1947
STATE OCCASIONS
GOD SAVE THE KING 2nd. v. in Faux Bourdon.
2 pages Unison, SATB, SSATB
Curwen 61055, 1915
COPAC
HYMN FOR THE QUEEN (Cobbold)
3 verses Unison or SATB,
Novello 1952
GENERAL USE
ARISE IN US (Masefield)
SATB
Novello 1931
A BLESSING ‘Go forth into the world in peace’
3 pages SATB
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Curwen 80648, 1927
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
[note: SSA arrangement is in print ]
Other arrangements (SS, SAB etc.)
COPAC
BLESSED ART THOU, O LORD OF OUR FATHERS
(Song of the 3 Holy Children in the Apocrypha)
6 pages
Novello 1941
JESU! THE VERY THOUGHT IS SWEET
(from ‘Jesu, Dulcis Memoria’, 12th c.)
7 pages
Novello 1933
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
LAUGH & BE MERRY,
arr. of anthem by Geoffrey Shaw,
8 pages
Curwen 61407, 1946
COPAC
O CHRIST WHO HOLDS OPEN THE GATE (John Masefield)
6 pages
Novello 1934
O CLAP YOUR HANDS TOGETHER, ALL YE PEOPLE from Psalm xlvii
7 pages
Novello 1939
O LIGHT FROM AGE TO AGE THE SAME (F.L. Hosmer)
4 pages SATB
OUP 1937
SERVICE AND STRENGTH (Christina Rossetti)
8 pages
Novello 1950
COPAC ; WORLDCAT
SOME TRUST IN CHARIOTS words from the Psalms
7 pages
Novello 1937
COPAC
THE CANTICLE OF THE SUN the song of the Creatures, (trans. Matthew Arnold)
3 pages Two chanters, unison & full chorus
Curwen 80644, 1926
COPAC
WITH A VOICE OF SINGING
duration 2½ - 3mins
CORONATION or STATE OCCASIONS
CORONATION SONG ( E. Montgomery Campbell)
7 pages Unison ; piano
Cramer 1952
GOD SAVE THE KING
2 pages Unison SATB or SSATB
2nd. verse in Faux Bourdon
Melody in Tenor
Curwen 61055, 1915
COPAC
HYMN FOR THE QUEEN(Cobbold)
adopted by the Girl Guide movement
3 verses
Unison with optional SATB for verse 2
Novello 1952
THE LORD HEAR THEE Motet for Double Choir
Composed for the Coronation Service, Liverpool Cathedral, May 12th 1937
48 pages Double Choir, unaccompanied
Curwen 80726, 1937
COPAC
THE KING, O GOD, (Robert Bridges)
6 pages, Unison for Massed Singing
Novello 1936
COPAC
UNISON
AMERICAN BATTLE HYMN
Mine Eyes have seen the Glory, (Julia Ward Howe)
7 pages Unison or with soli:
2nd verse Baritone, 5th verse Mezzo-soprano
Curwen 71487
COPAC
GO FORTH WITH GOD! (Barclay Baron)
7 pages
Unison with descant and two-part verse
OUP 1937
I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY (Cecil Spring-Rice)
SPCK 1929
COPAC
O LORD, HOW MANIFOLD ARE THY WORKS
Psalm 104, vv 24-8, 33 & Psalm 65
v. 14
for Harvest or General use
4 pages
Novello 1954
duration 2½ - 3mins
arr. Maurice Jacobson
Curwen 72417, 1958