Format : Octavo
SKU: BP.DF1023
6.88 x 10.5 inches.
From the composer: Written as a statement of support for, and allyship with, our Black brothers and sisters (as well as all people of color). Too often, in any aspect of life, we explain away other people’s experiences instead of seeking to understand experiences that differ from our own; we’re so busy talking about our own viewpoints that we fail to listen to the voices we most need to hear. I asked Tony Silvestri to write a text that could function as a personal statement from me to people I need to listen to—especially to my friends of color. This the text that resulted—words that speak powerfully for any situation where we need to listen to those who have been marginalized or mistreated, not heard or believed. For SATB or SSAA choir with piano and optional guitar.
SKU: ST.EM31B
ISBN 9790220205958.
CONTENTS But let all those SSAAT (verse) SSAATB (chorus) Come shepherd swains (SS (verse) SSATB (chorus)) Dear love, be not unkind (SSAT) Fair Daphne, gentle shepherdess (SS (verse) SSATB (chorus)) Farewell, sweet woods (SSAT) Fly away, Care (SSAT (or A) T (or B) B) God is gone up (SSTTB (verse &chorus)) Haste thee, 0 God (SSAATB (verse & chorus)) I did woo her (SSAA) I heard three virgins (SSATB) No haste but good (SSAA (or T) B (or T) B) O clap your hands (SSTTB (verse and chorus)) O Lord of whom I do depend (SS (verse) SSATB (chorus)) Quick, quick, away, despatch! (SSAA (or T) B (or T) B) Thyrsis, sleepest thou? (SSAA (or T) B) To hear men sing (SSATB) Weep not, dear love (SSATBB) What heart such doubled force? (SSATB) When David heard (SSATTB) When I lament (SSAT) Whenas I glance (SSAT (or A)) Why are our Summer sports? (SSAT (or A)) You meaner beauties (S (verse), SSATB (chorus)) Your shining eyes (SSAB) Your shining eyes (SSATBB).
SKU: ST.EM19
ISBN 9790220223860.
CONTENTS A satyr once did run away (SSAT) Come, sable night (SSATTB) Die not, fond man (SSAA (or T) TB) Flora, fair nymph (SSAT (or A) B) Fly not so fast (SSA) Free from Love's bonds (SSA (or T) B) Go, wailing accents (SSA) His heart his wound received (SSA) Hope of my heart (SSATB) How long shall I? (SST (or A) B) I have entreated (SSAATB) If the deep sighs (SSATTB) In health and ease am I (SSA (or T)) Love is a dainty (SSAT) My true love hath my heart (SSA) O divine love (SSAA (or T) TB) O my thoughts, surcrease (SAA (or T) T (or B)) O say, dear life (SSA (or T)) Oft have I tender'd (SSAT (or A) TB) Out from the vale (SSAT (or A) BB) Phyllis, the bright (SSATB) Retire, my troubled soul (SSATBB) Sweet Philomel (SSATB) Sweet pity, wake (SST (or A) B) There's not a grove (SSAT (or A) TB) Upon a bank of roses (SSATB) Weep forth your tears (SSATTB) Ye sylvan nymphs (SSA (or T) T (or B) B).
SKU: ST.EM18
ISBN 9790220216930.
Though better known as a composer of church and keyboard music, Tomkins wrote secular vocal music that offers a compendium of all the various styles: canzonets, balletts, madrigals and 'sacred songs'. Each was dedicated to one of his relatives, a friend or a colleague. The names of these 28 dedicatees form a fascinating list at the end of the book.CONTENTS Adieu, ye city-poisoning towers (SSATB) Cloris, whenas I woo (SSATB) Come, shepherds sing with me (SSATB) Fond men, that do so highly prize (SST (or A)) Fusca, in thy starry eyes (SSATB) How great delight (SST) It is my well-beloved's voice (SSATTB) Love, cease tormenting (SSA (or T)) Music divine (SSATTB) No more I will thy love (SATB) O let me die for true love (SATB) O let me live for true love (SATB) Oft did I marle (SSAATB) Our hasty life away dost post (SST) Oyez! Has any found a lad? (SATB) Phyllis, now cease to move me (SSATB) Phyllis, yet see him dying (SSATB) See, see the shepherds' Queen (SSATB) Sure there is no god of love (SSA) The fauns and satyrs tripping (SSATB) To the shady woods (SSATB) Too much I once lamented (SSATB) Turn unto the Lord (SSATTB) Was ever wretch tormented? (ST (or A) TB) Weep no more, thou sorry Boy (SATB) When David heard (SAATB) When I observe (SSAATB) Woe is me (SSATBB) Yet again, as soon revived (SAT (or A) B).
SKU: HL.49043945
ISBN 9790220133503. 8.25x12.0x0.3 inches. English.
Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with the earlier piece, Martland made use of to the library of the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in north London.I wanted specifically to find texts that were not just the usual nautical heave-ho sort of thing, but instead explored the dangers and hardships still being experienced by sailors as recently as the early 19th century. I was also very happy to see in these texts the sense of camaraderie and mutual support that existed between the sailors. (Steve Martland)Dance to your Daddy sets the scene of a sailor's wife at home, dandling her baby son and singing to him about his daddy away fishing, and about the future. Both the tune and the words come from the Northumberland area around Newcastle. This song is very well known in the UK and gave the title to a famous television series When the boat comes in.Fire Down Below is about the effects of fire - a constant danger on board wooden ships. At the end of this song the words take on an extended meaning: Fire in our hearts for the friends that we love.The Dead Horse is about the initial month of work without pay in which all seamen had to take part. They referred to it as the dead horse - hence the expression to flog a dead horse when something is a waste of time. The seamen resented this unpaid time, and the text expresses their frustrations metaphorically by listing what they would do to the horse! The music's frantic gallop alludes to the horse's desperation.Although The Sea Martyrs presents itself as a ballad, this text has a more literary feel, and unlike the other songs it doesn't include a chorus refrain. It concerns the sailors' lack of pay, the consequences of asking for pay (being hanged!), and the poverty of their families at home. The poem portrays the sailors' deaths as an almost religious sacrifice to help future seamen.At the end of the work, the opening of Dance to your Daddy returns as a kind of descant, sung by an angel calling to the hanged men. Paul Hillier, 2012.
SKU: BP.DF1022
