Boosey & Hawkes

Written in 1937 for a performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Now I walk in Beauty is a setting of a prayer of the Navaho people. The simple set of variations on a four phrase melody is a celebration of the innate deep in the heart of all people.

In a Valley Low combines folksongs from American and Finland in a light, melancholy jazz style. The folksongs share the idea of passing through the world and carrying the beauty encountered there in y...

This setting of the poem Faldang attempts to capture the flavour of the fiddle tunes referred to in the text with the zestiness of meter changes and no-diatonic excursions. Above all else, it should b...

There's a certain kind of lousy mood that often comes with a holiday. This piece is in honor of that loust mood.

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is a light-hearted song in 6/8 time in which the shepherd describes to his love the many pleasures they will enjoy in a idyllic, pastoral setting if she will come a...

Chorpartitur - mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probenzwecken.

Moonplay is influenced by the tradition of inventions - studies using limited musical materials. Yi and yu - change and constancy - are the foundations of almost every musical form. And in abstract mu...

The life of Oglala Sioux holy man Black Elk (1863-1950) spanned the tragic decades of the battle with Custer at the Little Big Horn, the ghost dance, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. In 1930, Nebrask...

Chorpartitur (Zulu) 1

My Days are Gone relies for its expression on the text on a contrast of major triads and minor seconds and open quartal and quintal structures. With occasional sections of imitation, it contrasts imit...

While the melody used in this setting is entirely new, it is somewhat reminiscent of an old Scottish air. The violin obligato underscores the great poignancy of Robert Burns' lyrics.

A flowing piano accompaniment sets the gentle, expectant mood of this piece, returning in each section with further development and ornamentation, inspiring and deepening a sense of awe and Divine ecs...

Autumn Song is a setting of a poem by Emily Dickinson, which depicts the season's onset as a charming change of venue and dress. The wit and conciseness of Dickinson's imagery inspired the similarly c...

Above the “purging” arpeggios in the piano accompaniment, the voices sing melodic and harmonic intervals which are predominantly from the whole tone scale. The singing is effectively frame...

This folk song in the Dorian mode tells an amusing story interspersed with appealing responses and a chorus of nonsense syllables. The active piano accompaniment departs from the scale of the melody,...

Dalglish has masterfully set this quiet text with a simple, flowing melody. The shimmering quality of the hammer dulcimer is a perfect complement to the legato vocal line. The easily-accessible descan...

This lively folk song is accompanied by two repetitive countermelodies, each with its own character and humor. The middle voice is the melody, giving young singers an opportunity to develop inner voic...

Longfellow wrote the text, entitled “Christmas Bells,” in 1863. During that Christmas season, the poet's son was critically wounded in a war, and the text expresses his father's anguish ov...