Surprisingly after all the collections that I have blogged, Gather 3rd edition has some Christmas songs that I have not touched on as yet.
This one has a wonderful text by Shirley Erena Murray. The text is available from the always obliging Hope Publications.
Gather has used Lori True’s setting, who has set other Murray texts, and she incorporated Dona Nobis Pacem as a bridge between the second and third verses, sung a three part canon, which then can continue under the third verse. This really makes it a choir piece unless you omit the canon.
This arrangement can be purchased at GIA.
For my backing I had to fudge and only do two lines of the three part canon.
You get a better idea from this clip.