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A Child Is Born

ARRANGED FOR SATB CHOIR AND STRINGS (OR ORGAN)

Instrumentation

Instrumentation

Strings only

Program Notes

Program Notes

The text of this beloved carol, “A Child Is Born in Bethlehem,” is adapted from a 14th-century Benedictine processional entitled “Puer Natus in Bethlehem.” Douglas Mears has set these familiar words with imaginative, new choral parts, accompanied by Ernest John Moeran’s tender and heartfelt “Air” from his Serenade in G.

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