Female Voices (SSSAA A
Cappella)
SKU:
HL.48025441
SSSAA
a cappella. Composed
by James Macmillan.
Edited by Sarah
Tenant-Flowers. BH
Secular Choral. A
Cappella, Choral,
Classical. Octavo.
Duration 420 seconds.
Boosey & Hawkes
#M060150098. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48025441).
ISBN
9781835680025. UPC:
196288216407.
In
its original scoring for
mixed voices MacMillan's
The Gallant Weaver has
become a favourite; this
arrangement now extends
the setting to upper
voices. Paul Spicer
comments, 'This ideal
introduction to
MacMillans secular
choral music is rich in
Scottish flavour,
appropriate to its Robert
Burns text.
Characteristic vocal
elements are the
ornamental inflections
drawn from Scottish folk
music and Gaelic
psalmody, and the overall
mood is one of
tranquillity.' The poem
celebrates love and the
joys of nature: '...
While birds rejoice in
leafy bowers; While bees
delight in opning
flowers; While corn grows
green in simmer showers,
I love my gallant
Weaver.'.