Christmastide, Tom Shelton | Santa Barbara Music Publishing, Inc.

Christmastide [level: Easy]
Tom Shelton: Bio and other works | Janeal Krehbiel Choral Series

voicing: tr./ssa/solo sop. | catalog number: SBMP 1448 | duration: 4:30 | price: $2.15
accompaniment: piano, opt. strings, harp
INSTRUMENT PART: SBMP 1448.1 [Opt. strings/harp parts & score $75.00

This special piece set to beloved poems by Christina Rossetti has several performance possibilities. Perform it with piano accompaniment or with strings and harp. Assign the “treble” part to a soloist or to a children’s choir, or divide the choir so a section sings this part. Whatever the plan, this is bound to be an outstanding contribution to the Christmas concert.

Allegro - Christy Eisner, conductor [© all rights reserved]

CLICK HERE: See and Hear the Complete Score or download a perusal copy: HERE

CLICK HERE: Read the Text or Poem

CHRISTMASTIDE and CHRISTMAS EVE
two poems merged:

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine,
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and Angels gave the sign.

Christmas hath a darkness
Brighter than the blazing noon,
Christmas hath a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas hath a beauty
Lovelier than the world can show:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.

Worship we our Jesus,
But wherewith for sacred sign?
Love shall be our token,
Love be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and all men,
Love for plea and gift and sign.

Earth, strike up your music,
Birds that sing and bells that ring;
Heaven hath answring music
For all Angels soon to sing:
Earth, put on your whitest
Bridal robe of spotless snow:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.

Love shall be our token,
Love be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and all men,
Love for plea and gift and sign.

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine,
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and Angels gave the sign.

Earth, put on your whitest
Bridal robe of spotless snow:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.

Christina Rossetti

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