SKU: OU.9780193866638
ISBN 9780193866638. 10 x 7 inches.
For unaccompanied SATB This is an appropriately aching setting of Sir Philip Sidney's poem of unending desire and longing. There are gorgeous chromatics and enharmonics and a masterful use of a triplet pattern which becomes the restless hunger driving the poem. This is a beautiful piece, and very gratifying to sing.
SKU: OU.9780193866652
ISBN 9780193866652. 10 x 7 inches.
For unaccompanied SATB to words by from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare. Taken at a slow processional tempo this work has a predominantly canonic texture. The syncopated passages are at once sombre and sensual, and the balancing homphonic phrases achieve real power. A short, fairly easy piece that establishes a compelling mood, it is suitable for school and adult choirs.
SKU: OU.9780193866621
ISBN 9780193866621. 10 x 7 inches.
For unaccompanied TTBarB Now fie on love is a rollicking glee with all the usual imitative points and a somewhat unusual allotment of brawny sarcasm. It makes an effective encore.
SKU: OU.9780193866645
ISBN 9780193866645. 10 x 7 inches.
A medieval English carol for solo baritone and unaccompanied ATBarB The setting is full of gentle hemiola and canonic effects, and makes much use of parallel sixths and thirds.
SKU: OU.9780193866669
ISBN 9780193866669. 10 x 7 inches.
For unaccompanied SATB to words by Shelley. Music, when soft voices die combines aspects of nineteenth-century English pastoral style with some of the tonal adventurousness of Vaughan Williams's Shakespeare settings. This is an exceptionally beautiful setting of this familiar text.
