This is a new printing of the original edition on sturdy, acid-free paper. This well-known noel would make a fine postlude or ending piece for a Christmas concert. 12 pages. Highest quality guaranteed. Size of music is 9.5" x 12.5". $8.00.

Harry Clay Banks Jr (1889-1967) lived most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After organ and music theory study with Harry Alexander Matthews, he was organist-choirmaster in several Philadelphia Episcopal churches, including St Mary’s Church and St Luke and the Epiphany (1937-1946). He was organist, teacher of piano and voice, and director of vocal music at Girard College in Philadelphia from 1918 until 1956. According to Harry Wilkinson, a student of Banks, “His was a unique personality in which wit lightly tinged with sarcasm played a notable part.” Noël nouvelet is a late 15th century French Christmas carol. Its primary English version is known as “Sing we now of Christmas.” Several other texts have been set to this tune, including the Easter carol, “Now the green blade riseth.” Banks, in this, his last published organ piece, places the tune in the pedals with toccata figurations in the manuals for the beginning and end with a soft section in between. Moderate.