Dear friends of the Edition Punctum Saliens,

2008 was a successful and eventful year for our small publishing house. In the end we would like to say a heartfelt thank you to all of you, for your interest, your letters and your support which we could experience during this year. We wish you all stress-free and peaceful holidays, and a good start into the new year 2009!

As during the last christmas season we would like to give some free scores to you. We picked two well-known christmas songs from the catholic apostolic collection "Hymns for the Use of Children and Young Persons" (Albury/London 1890). We hope that you will like them, and that you perhaps will find the opportunity to use and perform them as fit. The pieces are "While shepherds watched their flocks" and "Once in royal David’s city" (PDF).

You will permanently be able to download these scores from below our "Takeaways" menu item.

If you still should be missing a christmas present for someone who is interested in church history, we can recommend the newly published volume of proceedings from the Coswig meeting. It has just arrived from the printers and will now be delivered.

Wishing you a blessed feast,

Reiner Hiby, Andreas Ostheimer and Mathias Eberle