Mixed choir (SATB) (SATB)
SKU: HL.49044832
For mixed choir (SATB). Composed by Gerald Barry. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Choral. Softcover. Composed 1997. 15 pages. Duration 3'. Schott Music #ED13765. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044832).
ISBN 9790220136078. UPC: 841886025868. 8.25x11.75x0.081 inches. English.
Gerald Barry's The coming of winter is a setting of an Irish poem dating from the 9th or 10th century, and was commissioned for the 34th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music at University College, Cork, in May 1997. The setting is notable for its idiosyncratic use of text: not only are the words of the poem sung both forwards and backwards, but the second half of the piece is given over to percussive nonsense syllables, making this a quirky but highly invigorating image of 'the coming of winter'.
