Other original music by
Sheena Phillips
SATB
Anonymous medieval English lyric
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)
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
SATB
Words by Sir Philip Sidney
Written for the wedding of Tom and
Elanor Wexler, 2003
Published by Canasg Music
(www.canasg.com)
SATB
Anonymous medieval English lyric
Sang
SATB
Words by William Soutar
Published by Canasg Music
(www.canasg.com)
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
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