SATB Choir and Organ
SKU: HL.14035285
Composed by Peter
Warlock. Music Sales
America. Classical.
Choral Score. Music Sales
#NOV310462. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14035285).
The
Five Lesser Joys of
Mary begins with
a conventional Nativity
scene - the ox and the
ass for warmth, the star,
the Wise Men - to verses
attributed by
Warlock to one
Daniel Lawrence Kelleher,
editor of Christmas
Carols (No. 18 in the
second series of Augustan
Books of English Poetry)
where the anonymous
verses were published.
The fourth stanza
recounts Jesus
'Confounding the doctors,
the poor little Child,'
while the fifth carries
us to Calvary and a
singularly lame
conclusion as Mary 'Saw
Jesus droop over and lie
very still, She thought
of the good times they
had long ago When He'd
droop in her arms and
she'd
singhusheenlo.'
Str
ophically composed, with
small variations,
Warlock's tenderness
seems generic.
Sinsemilia
