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Original

Love Came Down at Christmas. Peter Pindar Stearns. Choir sheet music. Organ Accompaniment sheet music. Beginning.

Translation

Love Came Down at Christmas. Peter Pindar Stearns. Choir sheet music. Organ Accompaniment sheet music. Beginning.

Original

Love Came Down at Christmas composed by Peter Pindar Stearns. 1931-. For SATB choir, organ. Parish. Choral, Christmas, Hymn. Easy. Easy Medium. Choral octavo. Published by Paraclete Press. PL.0418. Love Came Down at Christmas is a gem for any Christmas-tide service or concert. The tenderness of the melodic line, combines with simple, changing harmonic colors in the organ. The choir, organist and listeners will find this prayerful anthem to be a joy to learn, sing and hear. Peter Pindar Stearns's "Love Came Down at Christmas" is an attractive and very approachable setting, with memorable, lyrical melodies. Of the three verses, the first is for sopranos only, the second sees the melody first appearing in the tenor line, accompanied by upper voices, and then returning to the soprano with four-part harmony for the rest of the verse. The third verse begins unaccompanied, the organ joining the choir gently in the middle of the verse. A charming and memorable carol, suitable for most four part choirs. - Julian Elloway "Church Music Quarterly" November 2005. This slow setting of the famous Christina Rossetti text opens with the sopranos singing the first verse. That melody is used in the other two verses, first in the tenors with neutral singing in the other sections, then in a four-part version, everyone singing the text, with the melody again in the soprano section. The keyboard part is on two staves and is accompanimental. This gentle, queit setting is not difficult, and has comfortable vocal ranges in all sections. - "The Diapason" October 2010.

Translation

Love Came Down at Christmas composed by Peter Pindar Stearns. 1931-. For SATB choir, organ. Parish. Choral, Christmas, Hymn. Easy. Easy Medium. Choral octavo. Published by Paraclete Press. PL.0418. Love Came Down at Christmas is a gem for any Christmas-tide service or concert. The tenderness of the melodic line, combines with simple, changing harmonic colors in the organ. The choir, organist and listeners will find this prayerful anthem to be a joy to learn, sing and hear. Peter Pindar Stearns's "Love Came Down at Christmas" is an attractive and very approachable setting, with memorable, lyrical melodies. Of the three verses, the first is for sopranos only, the second sees the melody first appearing in the tenor line, accompanied by upper voices, and then returning to the soprano with four-part harmony for the rest of the verse. The third verse begins unaccompanied, the organ joining the choir gently in the middle of the verse. A charming and memorable carol, suitable for most four part choirs. - Julian Elloway "Church Music Quarterly" November 2005. This slow setting of the famous Christina Rossetti text opens with the sopranos singing the first verse. That melody is used in the other two verses, first in the tenors with neutral singing in the other sections, then in a four-part version, everyone singing the text, with the melody again in the soprano section. The keyboard part is on two staves and is accompanimental. This gentle, queit setting is not difficult, and has comfortable vocal ranges in all sections. - "The Diapason" October 2010.