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for SSAATTBB ensemble, with piano accompaniment optional parts for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and strings

text by Robert Wadsworth Lowry and John Newton

arranged by Jeffrey Cobb

www.jeffreycobb.com - Mysterium Music - [email protected]

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An Awful Tempest, with piano Joshua Fit the Battle, with piano

Little Blue Peep, with piano There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, with piano

We Are The Music Makers, with piano

TB - TTB - TTBB Funga Alafiya, with percussion

Good Timber, with piano Never Seek To Tell Thy Love, with piano

War-Music, with piano, and optional trumpet When the Drive Goes Down, with piano

SATB

A Dream Within A Dream, with piano Absalom, tenor soloist, with piano

Come, Sing for Joy!, soloists, with piano The First Noel, soloist, acappella

Go Down, Moses, with piano Shout For Joy To The Lord, with organ, brass dectet, and timpani

CHURCH ANTHEMS

Hosanna in the Highest!, with organ and brass quartet Life Everlasting, with organ, brass quartet

Make A Joyful Noise, soloist, with organ and brass quintet O Lord, Open My Eyes, with organ, brass quartet and timpani

Roll, Jordan, Roll, with piano

HANDBELLS Dance, Chicken!, 3, 4, or 5-octave handbells

Jubilation, 5-octave handbells March To Glory, 5-octave handbells

Quinarius, 4-octave handbells

LARGE WORKS 2001 – A Jazz Odyssey, SATB, with jazz band

Prophetiae Merlini, SATB, with full orchestra or concert band Ring Out Wild Bells, SATB, with full orchestra or concert band

Sing Me The Universal, SATB, with full orchestra Within The Music, SATB, with concert band