Folk and world music arrangements by Sheena Phillips

Auld lang syne

SATB

Traditional Hogmanay (New Year) Scottish song

First performed on Mr Anderson’s Fine Tunes, BBC Radio Scotland, 1998

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Charlie is my darling

SA piano

18^th century Scottish song

Commissioned and first performed by the Knox County Choraliers, Ohio, dir. Diane Dingler, May 2005

Dancing with gourds

SATB flute

Gujarati song (India) collected by Peter Gritton

The demon lover

SATB, soprano solo, tenor solo, oboe, violin, cello, drum

Words by Sir Walter Scott; American ballad tune

First performed by the Magpie Consort, 2003

Dle dle

SATB

Armenian patter song

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Dream Angus

SATB divisi

Traditional Scottish lullaby

Commissioned and first performed by the Lancaster Chorale, dir. Robert Trocchia, 2001

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

dream angus (mp3)

from a performance by the Lancaster Chorale, dir. Robert Trocchia, 2001

Fhir a bhàta (The boatman)

SATB

19^th century Gaelic song

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Recorded on Rudsambee company of singers' album Bottled at Source

Gradh geal mo chrìdhe (The bright love of my heart)

SATB

Traditional Gaelic folk song also known as the Eriskay Love Lilt

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

The Great Silkie of Sule Skerrie

(i) SATB piano

(ii) SATB oboe, harp, cello

Orkney ballad

First performed by the Magpie Consort, 2003

Healing river

(i) SATB a cappella

(ii) SSAA a cappella

Arrangement of a song by Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff

SATB version first performed by the Choral Project, dir. Daniel Hughes, 2006

SSAA version first performed by Calliope Women’s Chorus, Minnesota, dir. J Michele Edwards, 2006

Published by Santa Barbara Music Press (www.sbmp.com)

Hush little baby

SATB a cappella with mezzo soprano soloist

Arrangement of a traditional Appalachian lullaby

First performed by the Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio, March 2007

Hush Little Baby (mp3 extract)

from a performance by the Magpie Consort, May, 2007

I shall light a candle

SATB divisi

Setting of an Apocryphal text and a Bengali folk song about finding the right path

Written for Rudsambee company of singers, Edinburgh

Kis kece lanyom (My little white bride)

SATB

Traditional Hungarian wedding song

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Pokare kare (The waves at Waiapu)

SATB

Maori love song

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Puirt-a-beul (mouth music)

SATB

I have written about half a dozen arrangements of Gaelic puirt-a-beul (lively unaccompanied songs for dancing to)

All published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com) in the Gaelic section of the catalogue

mouth music sample 1 (mp3) mouth music sample 2 (mp3) mouth music sample 3 (mp3)

Live recording of Rudsambee company of singers, on tour in the west of Scotland, 1999

Roselil

SATB

Traditional Danish folk song

Soun, soun, béni béni (Go to sleep)

SATB

Arrangement of a French lullaby from the Massif Central, as collected by Henry Walford Davies

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Tha mi sgith (I am tired)

SA piano

Traditional Gaelic song

Commissioned and first performed by the Knox County Choraliers, Ohio, dir. Diane Dingler, May 2005

Vårvindar friska (Spring breezes)

SATB

Traditional Swedish spring song

Published by Earthsongs (www.earthsongsmus.com)

Vårvindar friska (mp3)

from Rudsambee company of singers' album Bottled at Source

The water is wide

SATB

Traditional English (based on the version collected by Cecil Sharp)

First performed by Voice Columbus, Ohio, 2001

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

The winter it is past

SATB

Arrangement of a song by Robert Burns

First performed by The Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio, 2004

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

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