THE KIRBY

COLLECTION

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Contents

About the Kirby Collection 2

About Surrey Performing Arts Library 3
Vocal sets 4
Orchestral sets 12
Music sources 14

About the Kirby Collection

The Making Music Kirby in 2009 to use their legacy to
Collection of printed music was purchase a collection of printed
created in 2011 thanks to a music. This is now kept at the
generous legacy from our first Surrey Performing Arts Library
Chairman Alan Kirby, who was a for the use of choirs in Surrey
leading figure in choral singing and the rest of the UK.
in Surrey in the mid-20th
century. This extensive collection offers a
wide range of contemporary and
Alan and his wife Ethel were keen standard repertoire, including
to ensure the continued success many choral favourites as well as
of choral singing in Surrey and some more unusual pieces.
the Making Music Board decided

Cover:
Alex Rumford Brochure correct at the time of print, February 2016.

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About Surrey Performing
Arts Library

The Surrey Performing Arts Library Local choirs and orchestras should
is one of the largest music libraries contact the library to enquire
in the country and has received the about membership and groups
Excellence Award for Music that are further afield can borrow
Libraries from the International items via their local library.
Association of Music Libraries (UK
& Ireland Branch). Anyone can visit and browse all the
stock (including the 3,800 music
The library offers a performance sets), and lists of all the vocal and
sets service to choirs, orchestras, orchestral sets held by the library
schools, colleges, universities and are available on the website.
churches, in addition to providing
books, scores, CDs and DVDs for
individuals. It also contains large
collections of materials on drama,
dance and film.

Contact Opening times

Surrey Performing Arts Library Monday: Closed
Denbies Wine Estate Tuesday: 10am—5pm
London Road Wednesday: 10am—5pm
Dorking Thursday: 10am—7pm
Surrey RH5 6AA Friday: 10am—5pm
performing.arts@surreycc.gov.uk Saturday: 9.30am—1pm
Sunday: Closed
01306 887509 (Renewals, overdues
and missing parts)

01306 875453 (Information, set

availability and reservations)

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Vocal sets

Composer Title Publisher

O Holy Night
Adam OUP
(SATB, arr. Rutter)
Allegri Miserere Mei Deus Chester
Bach Christmas Oratorio New Novello
Bach St. John Passion New Novello
Barber Sure on this Shining Night Schirmer
Bartlett (ed.) Madrigals and Partsongs OUP
Beethoven Choral Fantasia Novello
West Side Story
Bernstein Boosey & Hawkes
(choral selection)
Liebeslieder and Neue
Brahms Peters
Liebesliederwalzer
Brahms German Requiem (in English) Novello
Brahms German Requiem (in German) Peters
Brewer Hamba Lulu Faber
Britten Ceremony of Carols (SATB) Boosey & Hawkes
Britten Choral Dances from Gloriana Boosey & Hawkes
Britten Friday Afternoons Boosey & Hawkes
Britten A Hymn to St. Cecilia Boosey & Hawkes
Britten A Hymn of St. Columba Boosey & Hawkes
Britten A Hymn to the Virgin Boosey & Hawkes
Britten Jubilate Deo in C Chester
Britten Missa Brevis Boosey & Hawkes
Britten Rejoice in the Lamb Boosey & Hawkes
Britten St. Nicolas Boosey & Hawkes
Britten Te Deum in C (revised ed.) Chester
Britten A Wedding Anthem Boosey & Hawkes

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Composer Title Publisher
Bruckner Geistliche Chore Peters
Mass in E minor
Bruckner Peters
(1882 version)
Buxtehude Das Neugeborne Kindelein Bärenreiter
Carter Benedicite OUP
Carter Te Deum Banks Music Pub.
Carter Two for the Price of One (SS) Banks Music Pub.
Charpentier Messe de Minuit Lemoine
Charpentier Te Deum, H.146 Faber
Chilcott Aesop’s Fables OUP
Chilcott Carols 2 OUP
Chilcott Jazz Folk Songs for Choirs OUP
Chilcott On Christmas Night OUP
Chilcott Requiem OUP
Chilcott Salisbury Vespers OUP
Songs and Cries of
Chilcott OUP
London Town
Chilcott &
Carols for Choirs 5 OUP
Blackwell (ed.)
Hallelujah
Cohen Hal Leonard
(SATB, arr. Emerson)
Coleman Rhythm of Life Shawnee Press
Simple Gifts
Copland Boosey & Hawkes
(SATB, arr. Brunner)
Ash Wednesday to Easter
Dakers (ed.) OUP
for Choirs
Darke In the Bleak Midwinter (SATB) Stainer & Bell

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Vocal sets

Composer Title Publisher

Trois Chansons de
Debussy Durand
Charles d’Orleans
Four Motets on
Duruflé Durand
Gregorian Themes
Duruflé Requiem Durand
Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands Stainer & Bell
Elgar Great is the Lord Novello
Elgar With Proud Thanksgiving Novello
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine Hamelle
Fauré Requiem (SATB) Novello
Fauré Requiem (SATB) OUP
Seven Poems of
Finzi Boosey & Hawkes
Robert Bridges
Flanders Captain Noah (SATB) Novello
Gabrieli In Ecclesiis Novello
Gardiner Evening Hymn Novello
Tomorrow Shall Be My
Gardner OUP
Dancing Day
Gershwin A Gershwin Portrait Warner Bros.
Gershwin Sing All the Best, Vol. 2 IMP
Goodall Every Purpose Under Heaven Faber
Gritton Follow That Star Chester
Haazen Missa Luba Warner/Chappell
Dettingen Te Deum
Handel Novello
(ed. Emery)
Handel Dixit Dominus Novello
Handel Hallelujah Chorus (SATB) Novello
Handel Israel in Egypt Novello

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Composer Title Publisher
Handel Messiah (Watkins Shaw) New Novello
Sing Unto God (Anthem)
Handel Banks Music Pub.
(ed. Steinitz/Burrows)
Handel Zadok the Priest (SATB) Novello
O Happy Day
Hawkins Warner/IMP
(arr. Teena Chinn)
Haydn Insanae et Vanae Curae Novello
Haydn Maria Theresa Mass New Novello
Mass in B flat
Haydn Peters
(Harmony Mass)
Haydn Mass in Time of War New Novello
Haydn Missa Sancti Nicolai Bärenreiter
Haydn Stabat Mater Faber
Te Deum for the Empress
Haydn OUP
Marie Therese
Haydn Te Deum Laudamus New Novello
Hill (ed.) Noel! Novello
Choral Hymns from the Rig
Holst Stainer & Bell
Veda — 3
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis
Howells Novello
(Collegium Regale)
Howells Requiem Novello
Howells A Spotless Rose Stainer & Bell
Howells Take Him Earth for Cherishing Banks Music Pub.
Jackson (ed.) Anthems for Choirs 1 OUP
Janáček Otcenas (vocal score) Robertson
Jenkins Gloria Boosey & Hawkes
Jenkins The Peacemakers Boosey & Hawkes

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Vocal sets

Composer Title Publisher

King English Church Music, Vol. 1 OUP
King English Church Music, Vol. 2 OUP
Lambert The Rio Grande OUP
Lauridsen Chansons des Roses Faber
L’Estrange Zimbe! Faber
Martin Mass Bärenreiter
Mathias Ave Rex — A Carol Sequence OUP
McDowall Ave Maris Stella OUP
McDowall Christus Natus Est OUP
McDowall A Fancy of Folksongs OUP
McDowall The Shipping Forecast OUP/Goodmusic
Selections from
Mealor Novello
A Tender Light
Mendelssohn Hymn of Praise New Novello
Mendelssohn Saint Paul, Op. 36 Bärenreiter
Mendelssohn Sechs Sprüche, Op. 79 Carus-Verlag
Messiaen O Sacrum Convivium Durand
Moeran Songs of Springtime Novello
Monteverdi Vespers (1610) OUP ed. Kurtzman
Ave Verum
Mozart Novello
(SATB, arr. Allwood/Hill)
Mozart Misericordias Domini Bärenreiter
Orff Carmina Burana (1965) Schott
Padilla Missa Ego Flos Campi Mapa Mundi
Panufnik Westminster Mass Peters
Parry Blest Pair of Sirens (SATB) Novello
Parry My Soul There is a Country Banks Music Pub.

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Composer Title Publisher
Pärt Berliner Messe Universal
Pärt Magnificat Universal
Pearsall Partsongs, Book 1 Novello
Pearsall Partsongs, Book 2 Novello
Pergolesi Magnificat Walton
Pergolesi Stabat Mater (SA) Novello
Pike Tudor Anthems Novello
Poulenc Gloria (vocal score) Salabert
Litanies à la Vierge Noire
Poulenc Durand
(SSA) (vocal score)
Quatre Motets pour le Temps
Poulenc Salabert
de Noël
Dido and Aeneas
Purcell OUP
(Dent/Harris)
Purcell Funeral Sentences Novello
Purcell My Heart is Inditing Novello
Purcell Ode on St Cecilia’s Day 1692 Novello
All-Night Vigil (Vespers),
Rachmaninov Musica Russica
Op.37
Ramirez Misa Criolla Lawson Gould
Ramirez Navidad Nuestra Lawson Gould
Ravel Trois Chansons Schott
Cantus Missae, Op.109
Rheinberger Carus-Verlag
(double choir)
Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle New Novello
Rutter Anthems OUP
Rutter Birthday Madrigals OUP
Rutter Carols OUP

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Vocal sets

Composer Title Publisher

Rutter European Sacred Music OUP
Rutter Feel the Spirit Collegium
Rutter A Gaelic Blessing (SATB) RCSM
Rutter Gloria OUP
Rutter Opera Choruses OUP
Rutter Requiem OUP
Rutter Sprig of Thyme OUP
Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio Schirmer
Schubert Mass in F Schirmer
Schubert Mass in G Novello
Schutz Christmas Story New Novello
Shearing Music to Hear Hinshaw
Shearing Songs and Sonnets Hinshaw
Short (ed.) Christmas in Blue Boosey & Hawkes
Stanford Songs of the Fleet Stainer & Bell
Stanford A Stanford Anthology OUP
Stanford Three Motets Op.38 Boosey & Hawkes
Stravinsky Mass Boosey & Hawkes
Gilbert and Sullivan Choruses
Sullivan Novello
(SATB, ed. Kay)
Tavener The Lamb (SATB) Chester
Tavener Svyati Chester
Thompson Alleluia Music Sales
Tippett Five Negro Spirituals Schott
Todd Mass in Blue Tyalgum Press
New Oxford Easy
Various OUP
Anthem Book

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Composer Title Publisher
Vaughan Williams Five English Folk Songs Stainer & Bell
Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest (SATB) OUP
Vaughan Williams O Clap Your Hands Stainer & Bell
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music OUP
Toward the
Vaughan Williams Stainer & Bell
Unknown Region
Whitacre Collection Chester
Whitacre Seal Lullaby (SATB) Chester
Whitacre Sleep Walton
Whitacre Three Flower Songs Chester
Whitacre Water Night Chester
Willcocks 100 Carols for Choirs OUP

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Orchestral sets

Composer Title Publisher

Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Op.53 Breitkopf & Härtel
Brahms A German Requiem Kalmus
Mass in E minor (1882 version)
Bruckner Peters
(Wind Set + FS)
Duruflé Requiem (reduced version) Durand
Dvořák Requiem, Op.89 Kalmus
Dvořák Stabat Mater, Op.58 Breitkopf & Härtel
Elgar Dream of Gerontius Kalmus
Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine OUP, ed. Rutter
Fauré Pavane, Op.50 Goodmusic
Fauré Requiem OUP, ed. Rutter
Messe Solennelle
Gounod Kalmus
(St. Cecilia Mass)
Handel Dixit Dominus Kalmus
Handel Four Coronation Anthems OUP
Handel Israel in Egypt Kalmus
Haydn The Creation Breitkopf & Härtel
Haydn Insanae at Vanae Curae Carus-Verlag
Haydn Missa Sancti Nicolai Carus-Verlag
Haydn The Seasons Breitkopf & Härtel
Haydn Stabat Mater Kalmus
Holst Christmas Day Kalmus
Mendelssohn Elijah Kalmus
Mendelssohn Saint Paul, Op.36 Bärenreiter
Mozart Kyrie in D minor, K.341 Kalmus
Mozart Mass in C minor, K.427/417a Breitkopf & Härtel
Mozart Misericordias Domini, K.222 Bärenreiter

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Composer Title Publisher
Mozart Requiem (Süssmayr) Kalmus (Peters)
Parry I Was Glad Goodmusic
Pergolesi Magnificat Kalmus
Puccini Messa di Gloria Carus-Verlag
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day
Purcell Schott
(Welcome to All the Pleasures)
Rejoice in the Lord
Purcell Stainer & Bell
(Bell Anthem)
Rossini Stabat Mater Kalmus
Gloria (reduced version)
Rutter OUP
Brass/organ
Saint-Saëns Christmas Oratorio Kalmus
Schubert Mass No.4 in C, D.452 Breitkopf & Härtel
Verdi Stabat Mater Kalmus
Verdi Te Deum Kalmus

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Music sources

Where to find music Directly hiring music libraries

We hope you will find the Kirby Most music libraries charge a small fee
Collection useful but of course it can’t for lending scores, but are significantly
include every piece of music out there! cheaper than private hiring.
If you are searching for a score for your
• Community and Youth
group that is not in the Kirby
Music Library
Collection the following sources may
www.cymlibrary.org.uk
be useful:
Hornsey Library, Haringey Park,
• Encore database of holdings in London N8 9JA
public libraries (not up to date, but
• Encore Music Services – not
best available)
related to Encore database!
www.peri.co.uk/encore.htm
encore.music@hullcc.gov.uk
• Zinfonia is the music publishers’ 01482 616852
portal and collective database for Hull Central Library
most leading music publishers. Albion Street
www.zinfonia.com Hull HU1 3TF

If you are not on the internet and can’t • Essex Performing Arts Service
get someone to search for you, you performing.arts@essex.gov.uk
should try your local music shop or 0333 0139453
public library.
• Gloucestershire Music Library
Music available free of charge gloucester.music@
gloucestershire.gov.uk
• Making Music’s member to 01452 426983
member Music Exchange scheme Brunswick Rd
(login required) Gloucester GL1 1HT
www.makingmusic.org.uk
• Kent Music and Drama Library
• Petrucci Music Library (ISMLP) librariesperformingarts@kent.
www.mslp.org gov.uk / 03000 410602
• Choral Public Domain
www.cpdl.org

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• Leeds Music and Performing Hiring music for a cost
Arts Library (orchestral only) • Gerontius.net (vocal)
musiclibrary@leeds.gov.uk www.gerontius.net
0113 247 8273
Calverley St, Leeds • British Choirs on the Net
West Yorkshire LS1 3AB www.choirs.org.uk/musichire.htm

• Liverpool Music Library • Chameleon (vocal)

richard.horrocks@liverpool.gov.uk www.chameleon-music-hire.co.uk
0151 233 5835
• Ourtext (chamber and orchestral)
William Brown Street
www.ourtext.co.uk
Liverpool L3 8EW
• Oriel Library (recorder)
• Oxford Music Library
www.recordermail.co.uk
oxfordmusic.library@oxfordshire.
gov.uk / 01865 810240
Westgate www.
Oxford OX1 1DJ
• Musica Net is an international
• Westminster Music Library project to collect all choral music in
musiclibrary@westminster.gov.uk one database
020 7641 6200 www.musicanet.org
Victoria Library
160 Buckingham Palace Road • Orchestral Music Online
London SW1W 9UD (subscription required)
www.orchestralmusic.com
• Yorkshire Music Library
• Individual music publishers’
01484 432802 websites
Yorkshire Music Library
Further guidance
Red Doles Lane
Huddersfield • For more information visit:
West Yorkshire HD2 1YF www.makingmusic.org.uk/
resource/how-and-where-
source-music

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