Prayer and Praise for Choirs

Colne Edition Prayer and Praise for Choirs is a developing series of arrangements of popular hymns and worship songs suitable as anthems for small church choirs, often with flexible scoring. They are arranged by Alan Bullard, the editor of the Oxford Flexible Anthems series.

All scores are available as digital downloads (minimum 10 copies) from Sheet Music Direct or Sheet Music Plus – click the links after each piece. Some are also available from JW Pepper (USA) or Colne Edition (UK) – both download and print to order (minimum 5 copies).

A New Commandment (unknown twentieth-century source)
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano  CE151
scrolling score
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Amazing Grace (Traditional / John Newton)
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano. CE160
scrolling score
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Be thou my vision (trad. Irish)
SABar, and organ or piano CE161
scrolling score
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Be thou my vision (trad. Irish)
SA, and organ or piano CE162
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Blessed Assurance (Frances Crosby / Phoebe Palmer Knapp)
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano. CE159
scrolling score
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How great Thou art / O Lord my God (Swedish folksong/Stuart K. Hine)
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano  CE153
scrolling score
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It is well with my soul / When peace, like a river (Philip Paul Bliss)
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano  CE156
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Lord of all hopefulness (trad. Irish / Jan Struther)
SABar or SBar, and organ or piano CE157
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Make me a channel of your peace / Prayer of St. Francis (Sebastian Temple)
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano  CE154
scrolling score
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O come to my heart, Lord Jesus! (Thou did leave thy throne) (Matthews/Elliott)
SATB and organ or piano CE154
scrolling score
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O come to my heart, Lord Jesus! (Thou did leave thy throne) (Matthews/Elliott)
SABar and organ or piano CE153
scrolling score
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The Servant King (Graham Kendrick)
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano  CE152
scrolling score
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To God be the Glory (Frances Crosby / William H. Doane)
SATB, and organ or piano  CE158
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Currently unavailable:

[Here I am Lord / I, the Lord of sea and sky (Daniel L. Schutte) – two versions
SATB or SABar, and organ or piano  CE155
scrolling score        to buy:  Sheet Music Direct, or Sheet Music Plus Currently unavailable
Two-part voices (upper, lower, or mixed) and organ or piano  CE155a
scrolling score        to buy: Sheet Music Direct, or Sheet Music Plus Currently unavailable]

[O God, you search me and you know me (Bernadette Farrell)
SATB and organ or piano   CE150
scrolling score
to buy:  Sheet Music Direct, or Sheet Music Plus Currently unavailable]