SKU: CA.924800
ISBN 9790007246594. Key: D major. Language: French. Text: Hugo, Victor.
SKU: OU.9780193530041
ISBN 9780193530041. 11 x 7 inches.
For SATB and piano or organ or orchestra This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting textures, a memorable refrain, and a rousing finish.
SKU: HL.49029381
ISBN 9790220101953.
SKU: GH.GE-11875
ISBN 979-0-070-11875-0. 185 x 262 mm inches. Text: Kettil Skarby after Jesaja (Isaiah) 6 (Swedish text).
For kor SSATB och piano/orgel.
SKU: CA.966500
ISBN 9790007167707. Text language: Latin/English.
Inte restingly, Ayres combines the Latin text of the hymn with his translation here: in the style of a free motet-like cantus firmus, he interprets the Latin text impressively in music, making use of glissandi, wide leaps and unison twelve-tone linear construction for the dramatic second verse with its deceptive vision of night. He places the motet sections after the translated text, but quite simply with the Gregorian cantus firmus and in the style of medieval organum, however with interesting, diatonically written dissonant sounds. This rewarding piece is challenging, but well worth singing in a concert or church service.