SATB choir, a cappella
(SATB) - Easy to
Moderately Difficult
SKU:
OU.9780193398658
Composed by Howard
Skempton. Secular Choral
- Mixed Voices. New
Horizons. Secular. Vocal
score. 4 pages. Duration
3.5'. Oxford University
Press #9780193398658.
Published by Oxford
University Press
(OU.9780193398658).
ISBN 9780193398658. 10
x 7 inches.
For
SATB unaccompanied This
is a simple and elegant
miniature in
characteristic Skempton
style, with graceful
choral homophony,
seamlessly fluctuating
time signatures, and
hypnotic, meandering
harmonies. The text, by
William Shakespeare, is
an homage to music.
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