Music for young voices by Sheena Phillips
Carol
Two part treble voices and piano
Words by Jean Kenward
Quiet Christmas song about candles and kings
Published by Canasg Music
(www.canasg.com)
Catch me if you can
Two and three part treble voices and
piano
Suite of four traditional counting
and nonsense rhymes
Charlie is my darling
Two part treble voices and piano
18th century Scottish
song
Commissioned and first performed by
the Knox Choraliers, Ohio, dir. Diane Dingler, May 2005
Chinese crane song
Two part treble voices and piano
(also available for SATB voices)
Words by Edwina Towson
Moderately difficult
First performed by Capital
University Women's Chorus, dir. Sandy Mathias, 2003
Christ Child Lullaby
Unison voices and two octave
handbell choir
Traditional Gaelic carol (in English
translation)
Commissioned by San Pedro
Presbyterian Church, San Antonio, Texas, for Christmas 2005
Published by Canasg Music
(www.canasg.com)
The Contest of the Holly and the Ivy
Three part treble voices and piano
Words medieval English anon.
Commissioned by the National Youth
Choir of Scotland for Songbooks 2, published 2009
The Dream Maker
Two part treble voices and piano
Words by Jean Kenward
Commissioned by the National Youth
Choir of Scotland for their 10th anniversary songbook, 2006
Dragon march
Two part treble voices and piano
Words by Edwina Towson
Published by Canasg Music
(www.canasg.com)
Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris (In the cattle stall)
Two part treble voices and piano
Traditional French Christmas carol
Commissioned by the Knox Choraliers, Ohio, dir. Diane Dingler, 2006
Feast of Christmas
Two part treble voices and piano
Words by Jean Kenward
Lively Christmas song
Published by Canasg Music
(www.canasg.com)
Food Songs
Two part treble voices and piano, voices using mi so and la only
1. Salsa 2. Fizzy Drinks. 3. Valse Végétale
Commissioned by Christopher Bell for the Phil Kids (children's chorus of the Belfast Philharmonic), 2008
Frog Music
Three part treble voices and piano, pentatonic
Words anon and by the composer
Commissioned by the National Youth
Choir of Scotland for Songbooks 2, published 2009
I once went a-courting
Three part treble voices and piano
Words anon and by the composer
Commissioned by the National Youth
Choir of Scotland for Songbooks 2, published 2009
Orchestral version being produced by Stephen Dougherty for a performance in May 2011 by NYCoS and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Learning to Drive
Two part treble voices and piano
A song about playing Wii Golf, using four notes only (la so mi do)
Commissioned by the National Youth
Choir of Scotland for their 3,4,5 series of songs for young singers, 2011
Life of Adventure
Two part treble voices and piano
Words by Peter Hill
Commissioned by the National Youth
Choir of Scotland for their 10th anniversary songbook, 2006
Limbo Dancer's Soundsong
Two part treble voices and piano
Words by John Agard
Commissioned by the National Youth
Choir of Scotland for its 10th anniversary songbook, 2006
Ocean
Two part treble voices and piano
Suite of four pieces, written for Christopher Bell and the NYCoS National Boys Choir, 2008.
1. Blue Whale
2. Coral Reef
3. Gulls (a cappella)
4. Seascape
"In many ways the wordless Gulls (from Sheena Phillips' Ocean suite) was more musically impressive - as a sonic experience, in this reverberant acoustic, as much as an exercise." (Keith Bruce, Arts Editor, The Glasgow Herald, 9 April, 2008, reviewing performance by the National Boys Choir in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh)
One hundred years of recess
Unison treble voices and piano
Suite of six pieces based on
playground rhymes, clapping rhymes, etc
Commissioned by Clinton Elementary
School, Columbus, Ohio for the centenary of the Annex, 2004
Six sea shanties
Two part treble voices, with optional third part, and
piano
Suite of six traditional shanties, written for Christopher Bell and the NYCoS National Boys Choir, 2007. With optional narrations.
1. Santiana
2. Blood red roses
3. Boney
4. The Dead Horse
5. All for me grog
6. Time to leave her
"Sheena Phillips's Sea Shanties were a novel delight" (Keith Bruce, Arts Editor, The Glasgow Herald, 9 April, 2007, reviewing performance by the National Boys Choir in Glasgow City Hall)
Duration c 15 mins
Tha mi sgith (I am tired)
Two part treble voices and piano
Traditional Gaelic song
Commissioned and first performed by
the Knox County Choraliers, Ohio, dir. Diane Dingler, May 2005
Three Holiday Three-Note Songs
Unison / two part treble voices and
piano
1. See how a Rose
2. Silent Night
3. Ruaridh the Highland reindeer
Duration c 6 mins
Each song uses only the three notes mi so la in the vocal parts.
Three Soutar songs
Unison / two part treble voices and
piano
Three poems by the Scots poet
William Soutar
First performed by the National Boys
Choir of Scotland, dir. Christopher Bell, 2002
1. The muckle man
2. Princess Anastasia
3. The windmill
"Glorious settings" (Keith Bruce, Arts Editor, The Glasgow Herald, 8 April, 2002, reviewing performance by the National Boys Choir)
Duration c 4 mins
Published by Canasg Music
(www.canasg.com)
Westminster Chimes
(i) Treble voices and piano
(ii) Treble voices, piano and
handbell choir
Based on the famous Westminster
Chimes of London, 2006
The winter wood
Three part treble voices and piano
Short cantata based on poetry by
Jean Kenward
1. Bleak and bare
2. Star
3. The Wheel of Winter
Commissioned by Kinderchor of
Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio, dir. Amy Chivington
Duration c. 10 minutes