Composed by Richard Rodney Bennett. For Choral (SATB). Music Sales America. 28 pages. Novello and Co Ltd. #NOV956978. Published by Novello and Co Ltd.

Composed by Various. Edited by Frederick M. Noad. Music Sales America. Classical, Renaissance. Softcover Audio Online. 120 pages. Music Sales #AM968066. Published by Music Sales

Voice & Piano

SKU: ST.LS19

Composed by Anonymous, Nicholas Lanier, Richard Alison, Thomas Campion, Thomas Giles, Thomas Lupo, Thomas Morley, Thomas Robinson, and Tobias Hume. Edited by David Greer. Vocal music. To the Lute, Bandora, Cittern and Lyra Viol. Edited by David Greer. No Lute Tablature is printed. Vocal score. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #LS19. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.LS19).

ISBN 9790220215209.

CONT ENTS

ALISON, Richard
O Lord, turn not away thy face (AATB or AAT)
When we sat in Babylon (AATB or AAT)

ANONYMOUS
But this, and then no more (C - C)
How can the tree but waste (B - B)
Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content (D - F)
Those eyes that set my fancy on a fire (A - B)

CAMPION, Thomas
More now with measur'd sound (Duet: D - E and G - A)
Now hath Flora robb'd her bow'rs (Duet: D - E and D - G)
Woo her and win her (F - E)

GILES, Thomas
Triumph now with joy and mirth (D - D)

HUME, Tobias
Cease, leaden slumber, dreaming (F sharp - F)
Fain would I change that note (D - G)
Soldier's Song: I sing the praise of honour'd wars (G - G)
Tobacco! Tobacco! Sing sweetly for tobacco! (D - F)
What greater grief (D - F)

LANIER, Nicholas
Bring away this sacred tree (D - F)

LUPO, Thomas
Shows and nightly revels (D - E flat)
Time that leads the fatal round (D - E)

MORLEY, Thomas
O grief! e'en on the bud (F - E flat)

ROBINSON, Thomas
Now, Cupid, look about thee (D - G).

SATB choir

SKU: ST.Y280

Composed by Rhian Samuel. SATB unaccompanied. Choral. Octavo. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #Y280. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.Y280).

ISBN 9790220223051.

1. Age and Youth (words by William Shakespeare)
2. Sun and Shadow (words by Thomas Campion)

For amateur SATB chorus with divisions, Opposites by Rhian Samuel pairs a well-known poem by Shakespeare with a less familiar one by his contemporary, the lute-song composer Thomas Campion.

In Shakespeare's much anthologised 'Crabbed Age and Youth' the decay of the former and vigour of the latter inspire contrasts of texture, register and dynamics to make a simple yet effective form culminating in the defiant tutti of 'Age, I do defy thee!'

A meditation on the fruitless pursuit of passion, Campion's 'Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow' alternates a lilting refrain with dueting soprano and alto, and tenor and bass.

Lasting around ten minutes, the two items would make an attractive and complementary element in any programme that explored the richness of English verse in choral song, whether in classical, romantic or contemporary repertoire.

SATB choir

SKU: ST.CN12P

Composed by Ronald Corp. ChoralNow. This PRINTED version is available to purchase as a regular sheet music title for delivery by post. Octavo. Stainer & Bell Ltd. #CN12P. Published by Stainer & Bell Ltd. (ST.CN12P).

ISBN 9790220224690.

Amon g the UK's most noted choral composers and conductors, Ronald Corp does not hesitate to bring his own musical vision to a much-loved poem by the sixteenth-century lutenist songwriter and 'Doctor of Physick' Thomas Campion, following the example not only of Campion himself but also of Charles Wood and Hubert Parry. Eschewing the manner of Parry's resonant polyphony for a simple harmonised setting in a flexible verbal rhythm reflecting the measure of the words, this is a heartfelt plea for spiritual release uttered in a quietly elegiac tone, in which the serenity of the entreaty rather than its pathos is to the fore.