Recent Publications from RSCM Press

Sunday by Sunday, the liturgy planner first launched by the RSCM 10 years ago, is much valued by churches, clergy and musicians worldwide.

Sunday by Sunday – Music for the Second Service Lectionary is a weekly guide for all who plan and lead worship. It will be indispensible to the many churches which routinely hold services based on the second set of readings – matins, evensong, family services, services of the word and other non-eucharistic acts of worship.

This comprehensive volume sets out a wide range of musical choices for congregational singing, choral and organ music for every Sunday of years A, B and C and also for holy days, major feasts and special occasions including:

Christmas ~ Epiphany ~ Candlemas ~ Annunciation ~ Ascension ~ All Saints ~ Ash Wednesday ~ Maundy Thursday ~ Good Friday ~ Mothering Sunday ~ Corpus Christi ~ Harvest ~ Bible Sunday ~ Dedication Festival ~ and more.

The Royal School of Church Music has drawn together an outstanding team of musicians and liturgists to create the only volume that will be needed by clergy, musical directors and all who are involved in planning worship for the second service in their church. 

This sequence of words and music provides both the framework for a devotional service and a wide range of choral resources for use during Passiontide and Holy Week.

The 'stations' featured here are drawn from the selection in Common Worship: Times and Seasons. They follow the Passion narrative of the Gospel of Mark, from Gethsemane to Calvary, with readings and prayers.

The choral music offers flexibility in a wide range of styles and levels of difficulty for choirs of all standards. Congregational items include established Passiontide hymns and contemporary worship songs.

New or previously unpublished music includes:

• It is a thing most wonderful (Peter Moger)
• Wonderful Cross (Philip Wilby)
• The song of Christ's glory (Grayston Ives)

The Way of the Cross provides a valuable addition to the music and liturgy of Passiontide and Holy Week for churches of all sizes.

This rich and diverse anthology of music includes:

• A service of celebration on the theme of the psalms
• A widely varied collection of choral resources including: spiritual, jazz and Hispanic. African, Western and indigenous music reflecting the diverse roots of North American culture
• Music for smaller choirs with limited resources as well as more demanding repertoire

The heart of the worship takes three central themes from the psalms:
TRUST IN GOD   +    LAMENT    +   PRAISE

The book includes a wide range of new or unpublished music including:

• Two settings of the RSCM Choristers’ Prayer (Gerre Hancock and John Harper)
• The Apple Tree (David Ashley White)
• Trisagion (Dent Davidson)
• Two settings of Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (one based on African and African-American Melodies, and one by Dorothy Papadakos)
• Benedicite (Thaddeus P. Cavuoti)
• Anglican Psalm chant (Benjamin Hutto)
• Responsorial Psalm setting (Denis Bédard)
• New arrangements of ‘There is a balm in Gilead’ (John Barnard)

The service ends with a stunning new arrangement of Sydney Nicholson’s ‘Crucifer’ with optional brass and percussion by Sir David Willcocks

The RSCM Millennium Youth Choir is the jewel in the crown of RSCM choirs. Under the inspirational direction of David Ogden, the MYC performs regularly on BBC radio and television, including Songs of Praise and Choral Evensong.

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the RSCM, they have recorded a superb CD, produced by John Rutter. It contains many athems that have become synonymous with RSCM Publications, including

• Rutter: A Gaelic Blessing
• Sumsion: They that go down to the sea in ships
• Sanders: Reproaches
• Archer: Prayer of St Richard of Chichester

as well as the first recording of anthems by Philip Wilby and John Harper.

Recorded in the glorious acoustic of Marlborough College Chapel, using their brand new organ, this beautiful CD will make an ideal Christmas stocking filler and will be enjoyed by all.

Designed for use with the Voice for Life Songbook, this CD ROM will help you put on a performance of How can I keep from singing? in your own school, church or community.
The CD ROM contains the following resources:

• An order of service for distribution at your event
• All the hymns, prayers and readings in the service
• Musical quiz sheets
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 to enable PC users to read the files

The Voice for Life Songbook contains all the songs needed for your How can I keep from singing? service.

Piano accompaniment CD for use with the Voice for Life Songbook

A graded anthology of forty sacred and inspirational songs guaranteed to get your choir singing.

Aimed at young people and adult singers at beginner and intermediate levels, this songbook includes catchy warm-up songs, beautiful rounds and canons to help develop part-singing plus exciting new music in unison and two parts.

With musical styles ranging from traditional church music to gospel and jazz, as well as songs from around the world, this volume will appeal to choirs of all ages, whether at church, school or in the community. It features pieces by established experts in the choral education field – including Bob Chilcott, Mike Brewer, Ken Burton, Alexander L’Estrange, Bazil Meade, Colin Mawby, Ronald Corp, Geoff Weaver and David Ogden – as well as fresh new works by up-and-coming young composers.

Complete with photocopiable vocal parts for each piece and a demonstration CD, this anthology represents excellent value for money. And, as it also includes guidance on running a choir and training notes on each piece, this resource offers inspiration and ideas for any choir trainer looking to get the very best from their singers.

As the congregational musical involvement in the Sunday parish Eucharist has increased, choirs have found that some of the repertoire that they traditionally have sung is now unison and sung by everyone. This collection will provide choirs with a collection of short pieces that can be inserted at various places during the Sunday Eucharist.

The collection includes: choral introits; Gospel acclamations; preparation of the table; communion anthems; choral blessings and a complete setting of the Eucharist for Common Worship.

All the items are suitable for choirs who need straightforward music that is easily learnt and enjoyable both for choirs and congregation. Many of them feature music for unison, two-part and SA Men as well as four-part writing so there is still plenty for singers to get their teeth into.

All the items in the collection may be photocopied for local use. With church finances stretched to the limits this is an excellent resource that could save your church hundreds of pounds, but at the same time provide its choir with a valuable collection of music throughout the year.

A beautiful anthem of the Easter message especially suitable for the Easter Vigil as well as the Easter Season, this new anthem for SATB choir has much in unison but with enough SATB writing to make it interesting.

The ease with which the singers will pick up the lilting melody make it an ideal choice for Easter Sunday, when rehearsal time is short.

Road to Freedom is a celebration of African and Gospel music. It tells the powerful story of the African-American people and their journey from slavery to liberation. It also considers the way in which we are all on a road to freedom through faith and hope.

The repertoire includes catchy African songs, fresh new arrangements of well-known spirituals and uplifting music from the gospel tradition. Each of the individual items can be used throughout the school year for assemblies, concerts and other occasions.

The RSCM’s new photocopiable resource with accompanying CD-ROM

Everything you need for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

The Carol Book is the major photocopiable* resource from RSCM Press that provides everything you need for the Christmas seasons in one package.
( * requires a CCLI Music Reproduction Licence)

The traditional-language version contains a plainsong setting of the text from Common Worship: Sunday Services, together with those contained in the 1928 Prayer Book.

Published in association with the Plainsong & Medieval Music Society.

A modern-language version is also available (RCW 106).

Many people have found it helpful to pray Night Prayer to the traditional plainsong melodies. Accordingly, the RSCM are pleased to announce the publication of two editions of Night Prayer (Compline).

The modern-language version contains a plainsong setting of the text from Common Worship: Daily Prayer, complete with daily and seasonal variations, together with a selection of alternative hymns.

A traditional-language version published by the RSCM in association with the Plainsong & Medieval Music Society is also available (RCW107)

The Silver Collection is a comprehensive and varied selection of anthems; many specially commissioned and published for the first time. Chosen with the Silver award syllabus of the Voice for Life scheme firmly in mind, this collection provides choirs with an exciting selection of anthems covering the entire Church’s year at a consistent level of difficulty.

The Bronze Collection is a comprehensive and varied selection of easy anthems and songs, including many favourites as well as specially commissioned works. Chosen with the Bronze award syllabus of the Voice for Life scheme firmly in mind, this collection provides choirs with an indispensable selection of anthems covering the entire Church’s year at a consistent level of difficulty.