Brass Band - Grade 1.5

SKU: BT.GOB-000725-130

Composed by Patrick Millstone. Score Only. Gobelin Music Publications #GOB 000725-130. Published by Gobelin Music Publications (BT.GOB-000725-130).

In ‘A Summer Holiday’ Patrick Millstone takes us with him on a journey. After a year’s hard work we may finally enjoy a well-earned holiday. The first part of this three-part composition has the appropriate title ‘On Tour’. When we chose our holiday destination, the brochure said that it would be bathed in sunlight every day. Unfortunately, this turns out not to be the case. Somewhat melancholically, we play round games in our summer house on a ‘Rainy Day’. However, the next day, when the sun again has driven away all the clouds, we naturally visit the ‘Crowded Beach’, where we enjoy both sun, sea and beach once again.

In ‘A Summer Holiday’ neemt Patrick Millstone ons mee op reis. Na een jaar hard werken kunnen we van een welverdiende vakantie genieten. Het eerste deel van deze driedelige compositie heeft de toepasselijke titel ‘On Tour’. Bijhet uitzoeken van de vakantie, stond in de folder dat onze bestemming zonovergoten zou zijn. Dit blijkt helaas niet alle dagen zo te zijn. Met enige weemoed zitten we in ons huisje wat gezelschapsspelletjes te doen op deze ‘RainyDay’. Maar als de zon de wolken verdreven heeft, en dat is de volgende dag zo, gaan we natuurlijk met z’n allen naar de ‘Crowded Beach’, waar we genieten van zon, zee en strand.

Mixed choir

SKU: FG.55011-567-5

Composed by Alex Freeman. Fennica Gehrman #55011-567-5. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-567-5).

ISBN 9790550115675.

Alex Freeman's (b. 1972) Cathedral of Spring for chamber choir (2019) to poems of e.e. cummings and Robert Frost was commissioned and premiered by Somnium Ensemble. The composer tells: For the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Somnium Ensemble (Finland), I was commissioned to write a piece with spring as a central theme. While contemplating that and perusing appropriate poetry, I was inspired by memories of the night-time sky in early spring--the warm air, the teeming, buzzing energy of life all around, and an expansive dome of stars overhead. I then imagined that moment in time as a kind of sacred space; this is the point where the cathedral notion came to mind. The frenetic and joyous poetry of e.e. cummings, from his Epithalamion, gives an exclamatory introduction to the set, followed by his vision of spring from the point of view of giddy children in his iconic poem, [in Just-]. We then take a moment to contemplate the ephemerality of all this beauty (spring giveth and spring taketh away, i.e. an offertorium of sorts); Robert Frost's Blue-Butterfly Day places us in a moment where, by chance, we find ourselves enveloped by a delicately fluttering swarm of butterflies. Peaceful and still, yet in constant flux, we spend a some time taking that phenomenon in, while also experiencing a twinge of the realisation that this is truly fleeting. The final movement, returning to a later stanza from Epithalamion, cummings's sparkling paean to May is set as a kind of final anthem..

SATB choir

SKU: ST.EM28

Composed by Henry Youll. Edited by Edmund H Fellowes. Library Volumes. Edited Edmund Fellowes. Revised Thurston Dart. Note: Print on demand. Spiral-bound A4. Madrigals. Collection. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #EM28. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.EM28).

ISBN 9790220218798.

CONT ENTS
Awake, sweet love (SSA (or T))
But behold where they return (SST)
But though poor sheep (SST)
Cease, restless thoughts (SST)
Come, love, let's walk (SSA (or T))
Come, merry lads, let us away (SSA)
Each day of thine (SST)
Early before the day doth spring (SSA)
In the merry month of May (SSA)
In pleasant summer's morning (SST)
In yonder dale (SST (or A))
Now the country lasses hie them (SSB (or T))
Of sweet and dainty flowers (SAT)
Once I thought to die for love (SST)
Only joy, now here you are (SST)
Pipe, shepherds, pipe (SSB (or T))
Pity me, mine own sweet jewel (SST)
Say, shepherd, say (SST)
See where this nymph (SSA (or T))
Slow, slow, fresh fount (SST)
Sweet Phyllis, stay (SST)
The shepherd's daughters (SST)
Where are now those jolly swains? (SSB)
Whiles joyful springtime lasteth (SST).