SKU: HL.14011727

ISBN 9788759880678. 10.5x14.25x0.52 inches. Danish.

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen 's Four Madrigals From The Natural World for 6-12 part mixed chorus. This piece incorporates texts by Les Murray. ' FOUR MADRIGALS to texts by the Australian poet Les Murray are composed of two songs (Bats' Ultrasound and The Octave of Elephants) written for the Australian vocal group THE SONG COMPANY, and two songs (Cattle Egret and Comete) from my larger work SOUND / SIGHT, written for the Danish Radio Chamber Choir, but here arranged for six voices. The texts are pictures and situations from - or meditations over - THE NATURAL WORLD. Les Murray's way of approaching this world is not in the least sentimentalor nostalgic: the poems reveal a truebeing-out-there realism: so basically the approach is realistic, but the creating of form elevates the material to an abstractplay, a daring and exuberant poetic language. These poems asked to be set to music. I gave up old idiosyncrasies regarding descriptive music, and surrendered to the madrigal, with its special so-called madrigalisms, which entails also animal-imitations. You will hear this particulary inThe Octave of Elephants. ' - Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.

SKU: ST.EM8

ISBN 9790220206320.

Well-known in his day as one of the most important contributors to East's Whole Book of Psalms (1592), Farmer was in the service of the Earl of Oxford who, more than any other nobleman, established the professional Elizabethan theatre. In the year that Burbidge opened the Globe Theatre, these 18 madrigals (the most famous is probably Fair Phyllis) gave the composer an attractive place in the history of English music.

CONTENTS
A little pretty bonny lass (SATB)
Cease now thy mourning (SAT(or A) B (or T))
Compare me to the child (SAT(or A) B)
Fair nymphs, I heard one telling (SSAT(or A) TB)
Fair Phyliss, I saw (SATB)
I thought, my love (SATB)
Now each creature joys the other (SATB)
O stay sweet love (SATB)
Soon as the hungry lion (SATB)
Sweet friend, thy absence (SAT(or A) B)
Sweet Lord, your flame still burning (SATB)
Take time while time doth last (SATB)
The flattering words (SATB)
Who would have thought that face? (SAAT)
You blessed bowers (SSATTTBB)
You'll never leave still tossing (SATB)
You pretty flowers that smile (SAT(or A) 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).