ISBN 9780193542099.

For SATB double choir unaccompanied. This setting of Orlando Gibbons and Catullus is a re-working of Gibbons's celebrated seventeenth-century madrigal (of the same title) for five voices. It retains the lilting depiction of the swan and the original composer's love of antiphonal effects and rich texture.

SATB
Sample audio is from 2012 by a 12-student, college ensemble

The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons

The silver swan, who living had no note,
When death approached, unlocked her silent throat;
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more:
?Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes;
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.?

This is the SATB score of the arrangement that I wrote for a lockdown project which I did with my choir, London City Voices. At the time of writing, we've raised over �95K for Women's Aid. It's pretty straightforward, and fairly easy to sing, but it's effective. The altos split for a couple of notes, but it still works with either if you don't have the resources to divide. Piano accompaniment and chords included. You can see many more of my arrangements being sung on www.londoncityvoices.co.uk/media, or you can reach me on @richard_swan on Twitter.