Category Archives: Anthems

Here is a list of all the anthems on my site, in alphabetical order of title.

Anthems are sacred pieces of music, usually no more that 5-7 minutes in length. Motets are similar, so they are also included in this list.

Longer sacred pieces are given the category Cantata.

Vigilate (ByrdW)

Vigilate

SATBB Unaccompanied

Music: WILLIAM BYRD

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Vinea mea electa (PoulencF)

Vinea mea electa

No. 2 of Quatre motets pour un temps penitence

SATB(div.) Unaccompanied

Music: FRANCIS POULENC

Rouart, Lerolle, 1939; Editions Salabert

Vineyard grows (ScottKL)

A vineyard grows

Amid the world’s bleak wilderness

SATB+organ

Music: K. LEE SCOTT
Words: JAROSLAV J. VAJDA

Morning Star, 1988

Vinum bonum (LassusO)

Vinum bonum

SATB;SATB Unaccompanied

Music: ORLANDE DE LASSUS
Edited: POTHÁRN IMRE
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Virga Jesse (BrucknerA)

Virga Jesse

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: ANTON BRUCKNER
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Virgen sancta (GuerreroF)

Virgen sancta

SATTB Unaccompanied

Music: FRANCISCO GUERRERO
Edited: WILLEM VERKAIK
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Virgencita (PartA)

Virgencita

SATB(div.) Unaccompanied

Music: ARVO PÄRT

Universal Edition, 2012

Virgin-born we bow before thee (GoudimelC) arr. OSheaPM

Virgin-born we bow before thee

SATB+piano+flute

Music: CLAUDE GOUDIMEL
Arranged: PATRICK M. O’SHEA
Words: Reginald Heber

Patrick M. O’Shea, 1996

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Virgo prudentissima (GuerreroF)

Virgo prudentissima

SSAA(or T) Unaccompanied

Music: FRANCISCO GUERRERO
Edited: NANCHO ALVAREZ
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Virgo prudentissima (IsaacH)

Virgo prudentissima à 6

SSATTB Unaccompanied

Music: HEINRICH ISAAC

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Virgo virginum (JenkinsK)

Virgo virginum

From Stabat mater

SATB+organ

Music: KARL JENKINS

Boosey & Hawkes, 2008

Viri Galilaei (ByrdW)

Viri Galilaei

AATTB Unaccompanied

Music: WILLIAM BYRD

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Viri Galilaei (CouillartD)

Viri Galilaei

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: DULOS COUILLART

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Vivo ego dicit Dominus (LoboA)

Vivo ego, dicit Dominus

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: ALONSO LOBO

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Vox clara ecce intonat (JacksonG)

Vox clara ecce intonat

SATB(div.)+saxophone

Music: GABRIEL JACKSON

Oxford University Press, 2015

Vox dicentis clama (NaylorEW)

Vox dicentis: Clama

SSAATTTBB+Sop. solo Unaccompanied

Music: EDWARD WOODALL NAYLOR
Words: Isaiah 40 vv.6-11

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Vox in Rama (Clemens non PapaJ)

Vox in Rama

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: JACOBUS CLEMENS NON PAPA

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Vox in Rama (ZielenskiM)

Vox in Rama

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: MIKOŁAJ ZIELEŃSKI

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Vox Patris caelestis (MundyW)

Vox Patris caelestis

In D minor (original key F minor)

SSAATTBB Unaccompanied

Music: WILLIAM MUNDY
Edited: Matthew Scott
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Vox ultima crucis (HarrisWH)

Vox ultima crucis (Tarry no longer; toward thine heritage)

Unison+organ

Music: WILLIAM H. HARRIS
Words: JOHN LYDGATE

Oxford University Press, 1937
In: The Oxford Easy Anthem Book

Vulnerasti cor meum (PalestrinaGP)

Vulnerasti cor meum

SATTB Unaccompanied

Music: GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA

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Vultum tuum (Josquin Desprez)

Vultum tuum

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: JOSQUIN DESPREZ
Edited: JAMES GIBB
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Wade in the water (ForbesJ)

Wade in the water

SA+piano

Traditional
Arranged: JOANNA FORBES after EVA CASSIDY

Faber Music, 2006

Wade in the water (GibbsSV)

Wade in the water

SATB(div.) Unaccompanied

Traditional spiritual
Arranged: STACEY V. GIBBS

Gentry Publications, 2017

Wade in the water (PorterS)

Wade in the water

SSATB+piano

American spiritual
Arranged: STEVEN PORTER

Hendon Music, 1979

Wade in the water (PowerJ)

Wade in the water

with: Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, and, Easy when I die

3-part Unaccompanied

Traditional spirituals
Edited: JONATHAN POWER

Sing for Pleasure, 2006

Wade in the water (Schultz-KokerbeckS)

Wade in the water

SATB Unaccompanied

Traditional
Arranged: SIGRID SCHULTZ-KOKERBECK

Walk in the light (BarnardJ)

Walk in the light

SATB+piano

Music arranged: JOHN BARNARD
Words: DAMIAN LUNDY

The Royal School of Church Music, n.d.

Walk softly (ChilcottB)

Walk softly

SAATBB+organ

Music: BOB CHILCOTT
Words early Shaker anthem

In: Bob Chilcott Anthems
Oxford University Press, 2002

Walk you in the light (HamiltonD)

Walk you in the light

Three spirituals no. 3

SSATB Unaccompanied

Music: DAVID HAMILTON

David Hamilton, 1993

Warum is das Licht (BrahmsJ)

Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?

SATB(div.) Unaccompanied

Music: JOHANNES BRAHMS
Words from the Bible and MARTIN LUTHER

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Wash me throughly (WesleySS)

Wash me throughly (thoroughly)

SATB+organ

Music: SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY
Words: Psalm 51 vv.2-3

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Watchman tell us of the night (HovhanessA)

Watchman, tell us of the night

SATB+B.solo+organ

Music: ALAN HOVHANESS
Words: JOHN BOWRING

C.F. Peters, 1962

Way over in Beulah land (GibbsSV)

Way over in Beulah lan’

SATB Unaccompanied

Traditional spiritual
Arranged: STACEY V. GIBBS

Gentry Publications, 2007

Way the truth the life (CoomanCP)

The way, the truth, the life

SATB+organ

Music: CARSON P. COOMAN
Words: W.H. AUDEN

Carson P. Cooman, 2002

Wayfaring stranger (RobinsonR)

Poor wayfaring stranger

SATB Unaccompanied

Southern American Folk Song
Arranged: RUSSELL ROBINSON

Hal Leonard, 2016
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We are called (MayoBS)

We are called

SATB;SATB+Children’s choir+piano

Music: BECKI SLAGLE MAYO

Choristers Guild, 2015

We are climbing Jacobs ladder (RogersSW)

We are climbing Jacob’s ladder

SATB+piano

Afro-American spiritual
Music arranged: SANDY WILLARD ROGERS

Sandy Willard Rogers, 2007

We beseech thee (SchwartzS)

We beseech Thee

SSA+piano

Music: STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
In: Choruses from ‘Godspell’ and ‘Children of Eden’

Faber Music, 1994

We brought nothing into this world (TomkinsT)

We brought nothing into this world

SATB+organ

Music: THOMAS TOMKINS

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We love the place O God (LoleS)

We love the place, O God

SATB+organ

Music: SIMON LOLE

The Royal School of Church Music, n.d.

We remember them (LaBarrS)

We remember them

SSAA+piano

Music: SUSAN LABARR

Walton Music, 2019, 2022

We shall walk through the valley in peace (HoganM)

We shall walk through the valley in peace

SATB(div.) Unaccompanied

African-American spiritual
Arranged: MOSES HOGAN

Hal Leonard, 2001

We shall walk through the valley in peace (MooreUS)

We shall walk through the valley

SATB Unaccompanied

African American spiritual
Arranged: UNDINE SMITH MOORE

Augsberg, 1984

In: Multitude of Voyces’ Anthology of Sacred Music by Women Composers (2019)

We wait for thy loving kindness (McKieW)

We wait for thy loving kindness

SATB(div.)+Ten. solo+organ

Music: WILLIAM McKIE
Words selected: Rev. C.M. ARMITAGE, Precentor of Westminster

Oxford University Press, 1947
In: Anthems for Choirs 4

We want life (LofbergM)

We want life

SSAATTBB Unaccompanied

Music: MARIA LÖFBERG
Words: RAIF BADAWI

Also containing the Saudi Arabian National Hymn by ABD ERAHMAN EL KHATEEB

SepteMa, 2015

We will remember them (ElgarE) ed. TraceyI

We will remember them

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: EDWARD ELGAR
Words: LAURENCE BINYON
Edited: IAN TRACEY

Novello, 2014

Weary of earth and laden with my sin (TozerF)

Weary of earth and laden with my sin

SATB+organ

Music: FERRIS TOZER

Novello, 1898
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Weep o mine eyes (BennetJ)

Weep, O mine eyes

SATB Unaccompanied

Music: JOHN BENNET

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Well shout and give him glory (WilbergM)

We’ll shout and give him glory

Four American Folk Hymns no. 3

SATB+2 piano

Melody from The Olive Leaf, 1878
Arranged: MACK WILBERG

Oxford University Press, 1998