Other original music by Sheena Phillips

 

 

All that I may swynk or swet

SATB

Anonymous medieval English lyric

 

Amo ergo sum (I love therefore I am)

unison mixed or equal voices

Words by Kathleen Raine

First performed by Canty of Scotland, 2006

 

Baglan brenn (Wooden staff)

SATB cello

Based on a medieval Welsh poem (in translation)

First performed by Rudsambee company of singers, 1999

 

Cauld blaws the wind

SATB 

Words by Robert Burns

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

 

Chinese crane song

SATB chorus, treble chorus, keyboard, flute, violin

Setting of a poem by Edwina Towson

This version prepared for Saffron Walden Choral Society, England (dir. Janet Wheeler) for a 2007 program entitled Wingbeats in collaboration with local schools and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

 

Day is dŸne

SATB 

Words by William Soutar (Scots poet)

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Recorded on Rudsambee company of singers' CD Bottled at source

 

Flor enversa (The inverse flower)

ATB 

Words by Thierry Corniglion (Nicois poet)

Commissioned by Paroplapi, France, 2003

 

The Flowers of the Forest: an elegy on Flodden Field

SATTB 

Based on a 16th century elegy by James Foullis and on the Scottish folk song ÔFlowers of the ForestÕ

Commissioned by the Dunedin Consort, Scotland, with funding from the Scottish Arts Council, and first performed at the Whithorn Festival, September 2004

 

Great is life

SATB divisi a cappella 

Based on 'Great are the myths' by Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass).

Premiered by Chicago A Cappella in their 2006 program 'The American Dream'.

 

Happy birthday in the style of JSB

SATB 

A chorale setting of Happy Birthday!

 

Holy Thursday

SSATB 

Words by William Blake

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

holy thursday (extract) (mp3)

from Rudsambee company of singers' album Bottled at Source

 

In beauty may I walk

SATB recorder cello

Navajo poem (in English translation)

 

In a garden so green

SATB a cappella

16th century Scottish court song

 

A kiss

SATB 

Words by Ben Jonson

Recorded on Rudsambee company of singers' CD citrus and honey

 

A Medieval sequence

Five anonymous medieval English lyrics

Composed for The Early Interval, and first performed at the NOW Festival of contemporary music, Columbus, Ohio, 2003

1. Westron wynd (Alto solo, harp, SATB recorder consort, treble viol, bass viol)

2. Love is the softest‘ thing (Soprano solo, two treble viols)

3. The man that I loved altherbest (Alto solo, folk  harp)

4. Sir John (Soprano solo, S & A recorders, lute, bass viol)

5. O wicket wemen (Three female voices, SAT crumhorns, racket)

 

Memorial

Double choir, flute, narrator

Based on a variety of Scottish and Biblical texts, to commemorate St Ninian

First performed by Rudsambee company of singers and singers from the Whithorn area, at the Whithorn Festival, September 2000

 

Mignonne, allons voir si la roseÉ

SATB 

Words by Pierre Ronsard

 

My true love hath my heart

SATB

Words by Sir Philip Sidney

Written for the wedding of Tom and Elanor Wexler, 2003

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

 

Of every kinn‘ tre (Of every kind of tree)

SATB

Anonymous medieval English lyric

 

Sang

SATB 

Words by William Soutar

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

sang (extract) (mp3)

from a recording by the Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio

 

Songs of love and longing

SATB

Five settings of Emily Dickinson

1. The moon

2. ItÕs like the light

3. Winter afternoons

4. I went to heaven

5. Wild nights

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

 

A Space Trilogy

SATB piano

Three poems by Judith Nicholls

1. Andromeda

2. The moon

3. Ballad 

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

 

The sweet o' the year

SATB 

Words by William Shakespeare

The sweet o' the year (extract) (mp3)

from Rudsambee company of singers' album citrus and honey

 

Wedding song

SATB 

Words by Peter Hill

(alternate title 'Take my hand')

Published by Canasg Music (www.canasg.com)

Recorded on Rudsambee company of singers' CD citrus and honey

 

Winter fields

SATB divisi

Words by James Russell Lowell, Aghaji (trans. Dick Davis) and Alison Tollick

Commissioned by Cappella Nova for Christmas 2003

 

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