The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a per...(+)
The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls’ School in London where Holst taught. The song is scored for Female Voices SA with a small echo choir unaccompanied and is full of recognizably Holstian shifting harmonies and Vocal effects. In 1847 Alfred Tennyson later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom published a narrative poem The Princess that concerned the education of women. In The Princess set at a summer fete a new college for women is created by Princess Ida. A Prince and his friends infiltrate dressed as women. A love story ensues. ThePrincess was also the source material for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida.
Create a special moment in your holiday programs with this contemporary treatmen...(+)
Create a special moment in your holiday programs with this contemporary treatment of the lovely song by Gustav Holst and Christina Rossetti. The flowing piano accompaniment enhances the warm choral textures. Available for SSA. Performance Time: Approx. 4:00.
Composed for the BBC Young Chorister of the Year competition this lovely settin...(+)
Composed for the BBC Young Chorister of the Year competition this lovely setting of the Gustav Holst melody is truly sublime. Ideal for treble choirs in school church and community!
Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refr...(+)
Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refreshing and lovely work for Christmas and winter. With ease and grace this choral is a musical setting worthy of any December performance for mixedvoices as well as men's and women's ensembles.
Seven settings of poems by Robert Bridges for female voices and string accompan...(+)
Seven settings of poems by Robert Bridges for female voices and string accompaniment. This vocal score contains all voice parts and a piano reduction of the instrumental score.
Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refr...(+)
Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refreshing and lovely work for Christmas and winter. With ease and grace this choral is a musical setting worthy of any December performance for mixedvoices as well as men's and women's ensembles.
Dirge and Hymeneal was composed in 1915 shortly before the composition of Satur...(+)
Dirge and Hymeneal was composed in 1915 shortly before the composition of Saturn from The Planets whose music it anticipates. It was performed for the first time at the 1986 Cheltenham Festival. Scored for SSA and piano set to text by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.
Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refr...(+)
Familiar and original words combine with two well-known melodies creating a refreshing and lovely work for Christmas and winter. With ease and grace this choral is a musical setting worthy of any December performance for mixedvoices as well as men's and women's ensembles.
