Name: The Birth by Ian Calvert SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Ian Calvert
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The Birth
by Ian Calvert SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title The Birth

Artist Ian Calvert

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Ian Calvert

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 6

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Ian Calvert

Level 2

Product ID 1395048

Genre Christmas A Cappella Contemporary Holiday 21st Century

Instruments Choir

Product Description

This is the first publication of a new Christmas song, set for SATB a cappella and ideal for
community or professional choirs.
The words are those of a poem by Leonard Clark (1905 1981). He was an English poet who
was raised in The Forest of Dean, in the west of England. The Forest became his great
passion and inspiration; much of his poetry reflects that upbringing and often relates to
nature.
In 1972 he published a slim little book of Christmas poems, of which The Birth is one.
What I like about this poem is its simplicity and clarity and its narrative development
through the verses. It starts with the poet waking in the pre-dawn. He then realizes that it is
Christmas Day and in the stillness of that time his mind turns to the birth of Jesus, as
traditionally told; tenors and basses start this verse. Then he steps out of time and space and
looks through his bedroom window to contemplate the mystery of incarnation; sopranos and
altos begin this third verse. And he finishes at the stable, offering devotion to the newborn
Lord.
This song is also available in a version for voice and piano.
Drawn from the same book of poems there is available another new Christmas song, called
Singing in the Streets; that one is set for baritone and piano.
Ian Calvert.

This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.