Anthem: Lift Up Your Heads for Mixed Chorus and Brass Quartet by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choir - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1156067

Early 20th century English composer, conductor and influential advocate for Black composers, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's choir anthems offer dramatic performance opportunities for church or concert hall. His festival anthem SATB choral anthem "Lift Up Your Heads" is an expressive and dramatic work enhanced with brass quartet accompaniment of two B-flat trumpets and two trombones with alternate horn and treble clef euphonium parts for the trombone parts. This edition has two scores - full score with chorus, brass quintet, rehearsal piano, and optional organ and a vocal score SATB chorus parts with rehearsal piano. The organ/piano part can be used for chorus preparation or as additional performance support. The recording is of the entire edition.

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