The Little Catholic Choirbook

A new addition to The Catholic Choirbook Series

A book for building new choirs and improving the skills and repertoire of experienced choirs.

This is a new digest created from The Catholic Choirbook series, containing the most sung music from that book as used by Catholic, Anglican and other choirs from around the world.

Designed to be affordable and easy to hold, its price is less than the cost of a lunch in many countries

Much of the music is very singable for the average choir, some is a bit more challenging to encourage excellence in the singing of your choir.

Some of the music may be sung without accompaniment, but all pieces include accompaniments for a simple reason: Many choirs struggle to find enough singers to sing all the parts. Going back in history to the time of Palestrina, who wrote for choirs of many parts, 8 and more, we have learned that when a singer was missing, that part was played on the organ, or by another instrument. For example, music written for a double choir of 8 voices, could be sung by four voices, the second choir part being played on the organ, or by other wind instruments or strings.

Our motivation for this publication is simple. Choir directors are amazed, when their choirs sing pieces from this collection, using a substitute instrument or two to strengthen the voices, to have people from their congregation who sang that piece in College, want to join the choir.

Also, many of these works may be sung with only sopranos, the organ playing the other parts. You have to sing great music to be a great choir.



Adoramus Te Christe

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Adoramus Te Christe

Francesco Gasparini

Adoramus Te Christe

Orlando di Lasso

Adoramus Te Christe

William Byrd

Adoramus Te Christe

Theodore Dubois

Ave Maria

Jacob Arcadelt

Ave Regina Coelorum

Guillaume Dufay

Ave Verum

William Byrd

Ave Verum

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Ave Verum

Edward Elgar

Cantate Domino

Giuseppi Pitoni

Drop, Drop, Slow Tears

Orland Gibbons

God So Loved The World

John Stainer

God So Loved The World

John Goss

Hide Not Thou Thy Face

Richard Farrant

If Ye Love Me

Thomas Tallis

Jesu Dulcis Memoria

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Jesu! Rex Admirabilis

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Kyrie Eleison

William Byrd

Locus Iste

Anton Bruckner

Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake

Richard Farrant

Miserere Mei

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Miserere Mei

Antonio Lotti

Non Nobis Domine

Philip Van Wilder [William Byrd]

O Bone Jesu

Michelangelo Grancini

O Bone Jesu

Marc'Antonio Ingegniere

O Sacrum Convivium

Edward D'Evry

O Sacrum Convivium

Roberto Remondi

Panis Angelicus

Fr. Louis Lambillotte

Prayer Of King Henry IV

Henry G. Ley

Sing My Soul, His Wondrous Love

John Bacchus Dykes

Stabat Mater

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Tantum Ergo

Déodat de Sévrác

Thou Knowest, Lord

Henry Purcell



Sacred Music Library

Noel Jones, AAGO

Augusta, Kentucky, USA

April, 2018