By Jean Perry, Dave Perry. For Choir. (2-Part). Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Choral Octavo. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Robert Louis Stevenson, Music By Janet Gardner. For Choir. (2-Part). Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Choral Octavo. 8 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Composed by Robert Louis Stevenson, music and additional words by Victor C. Johnson. Choir Secular. 3-Part Mixed Choir (SAB). Choral Octavo. Choral Designs. Secular. 12 pages. Published by Alfred Music

SATB Choir and Organ

SKU: HL.14015576

Composed by William Stevenson Hoyte. Music Sales America. Classical. Choral Score. Music Sales #NOV400578. Published by Music Sales (HL.14015576).

Medium Voice & Piano

SKU: ST.Y291

Composed by Rhian Samuel. Vocal music. Four songs for medium voice and piano to poems by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson.. Vocal score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y291. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y291).

ISBN 9790220223372.

CONTENTS
1. Blackbird (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)
2. The moon is distant (Emily Dickinson) (b - g sharp)
3. Bird in hand (Anne Stevenson) (e flat - g flat)
4. On not being able to look at the moon (Anne Stevenson) (b - g)

For medium voice and piano or ensemble of flute, harp and string quartet, Moon and Birds is a substantial cycle of songs to words by Anne Stevenson and Emily Dickinson. Its sequence of four settings, 'Blackbird', 'The moon is distant' (Dickinson), 'Bird in hand' and 'On not being able to look at the moon' unfolds a symmetrical structure of contrasting yet interlocking moods in which the reflective second and fourth numbers, lunar visions of mystic tranquillity flawed by doubt and pain, temper with human frailty the bright epiphanies of the first and third songs.

There is a fascinating challenge here for the performer to embrace both elation and gravitas in a single reading, Samuel's vigorous musical invention binding the developing web of feeling with its own formal strengths and subtly illustrative moments. In the version for string quartet, flute and harp, first performed by Contemporary Connections on 4 November 2011 at St James's Church Piccadilly, the flute takes a prominent role throughout. Violins, viola and cello at times elaborate on the simpler textures of the keyboard version, though the two scores remain entirely compatible. The bluesy harmonies of the concluding number, whether weighted by sonorous string quartet or profiled in edgier piano chords, bring the cycle to a sombre conclusion with a proper sense of an emotional world traversed.

Tenor, Horn, Piano

SKU: PE.EP73697

For Tenor, Horn and Piano. Composed by Julian Philips and Words by Robert Louis Stevenson. Chamber Ensemble Score & Parts. Peters Contemporary Chamber Series. Classical; Contemporary. Score and Part(s). 60 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP73697. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP73697).

ISBN 9790577023502.

The Country of Larks by Julian Philips is a miniature cantata for Tenor, Horn and Piano that investigates an epiphanous moment of connection with nature. The text was extracted and reassembled from Robert Louis Stevenson's An Autumn Effect, an 1875 essay that describes an autumnal hike through the Chilterns, philosophical, comical and poignant by turns. Stevenson's narrative framework is filleted into a short sequence of short recitative and arioso sections, culminating in an extended musical response to his fascination for the larks. The Country of Larks was commissioned by the 2021 Oxford Lieder Festival, on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary and was premiered at the 2022 edition of the festival on 25 October 2022 by Stuart Jackson (Tenor), Jocelyn Freeman (Piano) and George Strivens (Horn). This edition is published as part of the Peters Contemporary Chamber Series.

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