Music for lower voices (including changing voices) by Sheena Phillips
To purchase unpublished music please email me (sheenaphillips at gmail.com). For most scores there is a modest fee per singer for permission to copy from a licensed PDF file.
A Song About Fish
TBarB, piano
A song about our love of fishing and the threat of over-fishing
Ranges suitable for cambiata voices
Commended in the 2018 Cornwall International Male Choral Festival composing competition
Cowboy Songs
TBarB, piano
Tenor range suitable for cambiata voices
1. The U-S-U Range (traditional) see the music
2. Billy the Kid (traditional) see the music
3. Tall Men Riding (lyrics by S. Omar Barker) see the music
Total duration c. 10:00
Premiered by the changed voices section of the National Boys Choir of Scotland, 2014
Dle dle
TBB
Tenor range suitable for cambiata voices
Lively Armenian patter song from the Van district (now in Turkey)
Published by Canasg Music
From Sweet Dundee
TTB, piano, optional flute
Traditional shanty arrangement
Winner of the 2013 Cambiata Composition Initiative sponsored by the Cambiata Institute at the University of North Texas
Here We Come A-Wassailing
TTBB a cappella
Foot-tapping arrangement of the traditional English carol
Published by
Canasg Music
Noel
TTBB
Overlapping calls of "Noel" build to a bell-like conclusion
Published by Canasg Music
Pokarekare Ana (The waves at Waiapu)
TBB
Tenor range suitable for cambiata voices
19th century Maori love song
Published by Canasg Music
Six Sea Shanties
TBB and piano
Tenor range suitable for cambiata voices
Suite of six traditional shanties, duration c. 15 minutes
Published by Canasg Music
1. Santiana
3. Boney
Premiered by the changed voices section of the National Boys Choir of Scotland
"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)
So Beautie on the Waters Stood
TTBB a cappella
Based on the 17th century song by Alfonso Ferrabosco
The Bedfordshire May Carol
TB, piano, violin obbligato
Tenor range suitable for cambiata voices
Traditional English
Three part (TBB) version also available
The Pear Tree Ballad
TBB
Traditional N E Scotland ballad
Published by Santa Barbara Music Press
Recording by the Magpie Consort, Ohio, from the album The Garden, solo Dane Chavers
The Wren Carol
TTB a cappella
Tenor range suitable for cambiata voices
Traditional Welsh Borders
Composed 2013
Two Welsh carols (Awake they were only and The best of mornings)
TTB
Published by Canasg Music