SATB choir, a cappella

SKU: OU.9780193866652

Composed by Rebecca Clarke. Vocal score. 8 pages. Duration 2.5'. Oxford University Press #9780193866652. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193866652).

ISBN 9780193866652. 10 x 7 inches.

For unaccompanied SATB to words by from 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare. Taken at a slow processional tempo this work has a predominantly canonic texture. The syncopated passages are at once sombre and sensual, and the balancing homphonic phrases achieve real power. A short, fairly easy piece that establishes a compelling mood, it is suitable for school and adult choirs.

Arranged by , edited by Bob Dingley, composed by Greg Gilpin. Collection for SATB chorus and piano accompaniment. Series: Pop choral octavo (SATB). 172 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

SATB choir

SKU: ST.EM35A

Composed by Robert Jones. Edited by Edmund H Fellowes. Library Volumes. Edited Edmund Fellowes. Revised Thurston Dart. Paperback. Madrigals. Choral Score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #EM35A. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.EM35A).

ISBN 9790220209796.

Jone s was a famous lutenist and one of the musicians responsible for training the 'children of St Paul's', who acted and sang in Elizabethan and Jacobean court plays. His 16 madrigals are mostly to texts about birds - birds merry, sweet, shrill, crowing or melancholic.

CONTENTS
Are lovers full of fire? (SSAATBB)
But let her look in mine (SST)
Cock-a-doodle-doo (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Come, doleful owl (SSTTB)
Fair Oriana seeming to wink (SSAATB)
I come, sweet birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Love, if a god thou art (SST)
O I do love (SST (or A))
She only is the pride (SSA)
Shrill-sounding bird (SST (or A) B)
Sing, merry birds (SS (or A) A (or T) B)
Sweet, when thou singest (SSATB)
The more I burn (SSAATTBB)
Thine eyes so bright (SSA)
When I behold her eyes (SST)
Your presence breeds (SSAATB).

SATB choir

SKU: ST.CN19P

Composed by Bertie Baigent. ChoralNow. This PRINTED version is available to purchase as a regular sheet music title for delivery by post. Octavo. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #CN19P. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.CN19P).

ISBN 9790220224782.

The composer was drawn to the beautiful stillness and sadness of the poem by Christina Rossetti, which transcend its rigid sonnet structure, and allude via the epigraph to the mysterious Willow-Wood cycle by Christina's brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The music suggests a division of the poem into three stanzas, alternating with tranquil interludes (using the opening melody) representing the 'willow-wood' of the title, so that the listener is constantly reminded of the gentle surroundings. As the intensity of the text increases, so does the astringency of dissonance in the verses, reaching its apogee just before consonance breaks through at the crucial phrase 'one moment joined'. The simplicity of the vocal writing conveys the serenity of the setting, while simultaneously suggesting the austere melancholy of the lovers. An Echo from Willow-Wood was the winner of the Stainer & Bell Award for Choral Composition 2015.