Mixed voice titles 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To purchase unpublished music please email me (sheenaphillips at gmail.com).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.
NEW or FEATURED
An Irish Blessing
SATB a cappella
"May the road rise to meet you" and other traditional blessings, arranged in mixed meter.
Published by Canasg Music
Bird Rounds
mixed or equal voices a cappella
Four rounds based on lyrics about birds by Paul Dunbar, Percy Bysse Shelley, Alfred Tennyson and William Wordsworth, with music by Beethoven, Caldara and Sheena Phillips
The rounds vary in difficulty: the first three are well within the compass of a range of choirs but Eagle is chromatic and challenging
Published by Canasg Music
SATB chorus a cappella
Five Native American song poems
1. Falling 2. Waking 3. Singing 4. Leaving 5. Rising (extracts)
You can listen to the entire work here.
Published by Boosey & Hawkes, 2015
2013 Sorel Medallion Prize in Choral Composition
First performance by Voices of Ascension, New York City, dir. Dennis Keene
First European performance by Cathures, Glasgow, dir. Katy Lavinia Cooper
(To sleep, to dream, to play, to sing)
SATB a cappella
Suite of five Latin American children’s songs
Composed 2019 for Icosa
1. Arrorró mi Niño (Hush-a-bye my Baby)
2. Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha (If This Street Were Mine)
3. Tortillitas / Arroz con Leche (Little Tortillas / Rice Pudding)
4. Ronda de la Luna (Circle of the Moon)
5. Gumayta Puñen May (The Children Cry)
recording of the premiere by Icosa, Guildford, 2019
SATB, soprano recorder
Setting of a Navajo poem
Composed 2002
recording by the Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio
SSAATBB a cappella
Cheerful quodlibet based on various songs and sayings about magpies
Composed 2011
recording by the Magpie Consort, Columbus, Ohio
SATB, piano
Suite based on three poems about boyhood by Federico García Lorca
Composed 2012
1. Agua ¿Donde Vas? (Water, Where are you Going?)
2. Canción Tonta (Silly Song)
3. De Casa En Casa (From House to House)
Treble voice version (SA, piano) published by Boosey & Hawkes, 2015
Mixed voices (six parts)
Aleatoric soundscape based on the American song Shenandoah
Workshopped by CoMA at Trinity Laban Conservatoire in 2017
recording of a performance by Icosa Chamber Choir, dir. Luke Mather, St Botolph-without-Newgate, London, April 2018
Also available for female voices
SATB a cappella
Lament for Aleppo
Composed for the Portugese choir Voz Nua
recording of a live performance by echo chamber choir, directed by Sarah Latto, in the Thames Tunnel Shaft, September 2017
recording of a live performance by icosa chamber choir, directed by Luke Mather, St Mary–at–Hill, London, October 2017
(the Icosa performance was aired on BBC Radio 3 in June 2018)
Published by Canasg Music SATB a cappella A song about rest and renewal SATB adult choir, children’s choir, flute doubling as piccolo, piano, string bass, percussion, narrator Musical setting in five movements of Robert Browning’s unsettling tale of rats, enchantment, broken promises and disappearing children Duration c. 18 minutes audio realisation (extract) from movement 3 (The End of the Rats) Composed 2016 Equal or mixed voices (five parts), narrator, flute obbligato Soundscape based on a poem by John Clare Composed for the 2016 CoMA Summer School Two performances by CoMA Singers in 2017 Published by CoMA.
Youtube recording of the first performance
OTHER TITLES
Amo Ergo Sum (I Love Therefore I Am) Unison mixed or equal voices Plainchant style setting of words by Kathleen Raine Published by Canasg Music 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 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 SSATB a cappella Secular piece for the turn of the year or the winter solstice Composed 2017 for Belsize Community Choir, London Day is Düne SATB Words by William Soutar (Scots poet) Published by Canasg Music Recorded on Rudsambee company of singers' CD Bottled at source Dream Songs SATB and SA treble voice chorus Based on three 'dream songs' of the native American Wintu people Commissioned and first performed by the Lancaster Chorale and Lancaster-Fairfield Youth Choir, Ohio, May 2009 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 The Flowers of the Forest Commissioned by the Dunedin Consort,
Scotland, with funding from the Scottish Arts Council, and first performed at
the Whithorn Festival, September 2004. Other performances by Sang Scule, dir. James Hutchinson and Edinburgh University Singers, dir. Calum Robertson. perusal score
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' perusal score recording of the premiere Holy Thursday SSATB Words by William Blake Published by Canasg Music
Recording extract (Rudsambee Company of Singers) 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 Mignonne, Allons Voir Si La Rose SATB Words by Pierre Ronsard Mist-Covered Mountains (Chì mi na mòrbheanna) SATB, soprano recorder, optional piano Hebridean song of homecoming Gaelic chorus and English verses performance by Belsize Community Choir and Islington Choir, 2019 Moongazing flexible equal or mixed voices, in 6 parts, with staging suggestions Lyrics by Nigel Phillips (b. 1934) A unison semichorus is backed by ethereal waxing and waning chords Premiered by Consortium Vocale Berlin, dir. Rory Johnston, 2023 Music for a While SATB, percussion, including optional marimba Lyrics by John Dryden, Swahili tradition, Percy Bysse Shelley, and the composer Commissioned by VOICES Chorale of New Jersey, dir. Lyn Ransom, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the chorus, 2013 Premiered by VOICES Chorale and the Princeton Area Homeschool Choir, dir. Lyn Ransom, Princeton, May 2013 SATB Words by Sir Philip Sidney Written for the wedding of Tom and
Elanor Wexler, 2003 Published by Canasg Music Sang SATB Words by William Soutar Published by Canasg Music recording extract (The Magpie Consort, Ohio) Song of praise SATB a cappella Wordless song of praise Composed for Voz Nua of Portugal Songs of Love and Longing SATB Five settings of Emily Dickinson 1. The moon 2. It's like the light 3. Winter afternoons 4. I went to heaven 5. Wild nights Published by Canasg Music A Space Trilogy SATB piano Three poems by Judith Nicholls 1. Andromeda 2. The moon 3. Ballad The Sweet o' the Year SATB Words by William Shakespeare Published by Canasg Music recording extract (Rudsambee Company of Singers) Recorded on the Rudsambee album citrus and honey Wedding Song SATB Words by Peter Hill (alternate title Take my Hand) Published by Canasg Music Recorded by Rudsambee Company of Singers on the album 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 The Phoenix Rests In Her Golden Egg
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Wind Song
Darkness Into Light
My True Love Hath My Heart