SKU: ST.EM26
ISBN 9790220212598.
CONTENTS Care for thy soul (SSATB) Chaste Daphne fled (SST (or A) B) Chaste Syrinx fled (SSA (or T) TB) Come shepherds' weeds (SSA (or T) TB) Coy Daphne fled (SST (or A) B) Crowned with flowers (SSAAB) Cruel Pabrilla (SSAT (or A) TB) Dear shepherdess (SSAATB) Drown not with tears (SSATB) Fancy for the Viols (SSAATB and Viol Sextet) Go, you skipping kids and fawns (SSATB) If she neglect me (SSA (or T) B) Maenalas in an evening (SSAB) O gracious God (SSATB) O praise the Lord (SSATTB) O softly-singing lute (SSAATB) Palaemon and his Sylvia (SSTB) Sovereign of my delight (SST) Stay, heart, run not so fast (SST) Surcrease, you faithful shepherdess (SSATB/Viol quintet/Lute) Wake, sleepy Thyrsis (SST) Weep, sad Urania (SS and string accompt.) Ye bubbling springs (SST) Yond hilltops Phoebus kissed (SST) You gentle Nymphs (SSA (or T) B) Your fond preferments (SST).
SKU: PR.164001780
UPC: 680160037056.
The American imagist poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925) provided both the title and the substance for this brief descriptive work in her poem Night Clouds. I had been commissioned by the flute/harp duo Chaski to write a piece that had a different sound than most flute and harp pieces. The image of these elusive beasts cavorting through the night, before the appearance of the tiger sun, seemed to me perfectly suited for the flute and harp and would give me the chance to write a work for that combination that did NOT have overtones of nymphs and shepherds. I wanted to make much use of the harp's more violent sounds (beating the strings and the soundboard, for instance) as well as its unusual and idiomatic effects, such as pedal glissandi. For the flute, there are jet-whistle effects, extremes of register, pitch-bending and other decidedly non-pastoral gestures. The work was composed in 1986. --Dan Welcher.
SKU: ST.EM34
ISBN 9790220217746.
Chiefly remembered in performance nowadays for his beautiful Sweet Suffolk Owl, Vautor represented the conventional, anonymous polyphony of the successors to Gibbons and Weelkes - but there are still trouvailles in these 22 pieces. CONTENTS Ah, sweet, whose beauty (SSATB) And yet, O dream (SSA (or T) TB) Blush, my rude present (SSATTB) Come forth, sweet nymph (SSAT (or A) B) Cruel Madame (SSATB) Dainty sweet bird (SSATTB) Fairest are the words (SSATB) Lock up, fair lids (SSATB) Melpomene, bewail (SS and instruments) Mira cano, sol occubuit (SSATB) Mother I will have a husband (SSATB) Never did any more delight (SSATB) O merry world (SSAT (or A) B) Shepherds and nymphs (SSATTB) Sing on, sister, and well met (SSATB) Sweet Suffolk owl (SSAT (or A) B) Sweet thief (SSATB) Thou are not fair (SSAT (or A) B) Unkind, is this the meed? (SSATTB) Weep, weep, mine eyes (SS and instruments) Whilst fatal sisters (SSATTB) Yet love me not (SSAT (or A) B).
SKU: HL.14065229
SKU: KJ.S1028
SKU: HL.14065228
SKU: IM.1926
