'S ann an Ile
SAA
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: Trad. Anon
'I was born and brought up on the beautiful Isle of Islay'. Traditional port-a-beul (mouth music)....
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A boy was born
SAA
Music: Douglas Cook
Words: Anon. (trans. Dearmer)
Douglas Cook's vigorous version of this ancient and joyful carol has a modal flavour...
Read More »A sequence of carols
SAA
Music: Douglas Cook
Words: Anon
Four contrasting settings of medieval English texts, mixing old and new idioms...
Read More »Ae fond kiss SSAA
SSAA
Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
A richly harmonised setting of Robert Burns' famous song about the pain of parting with 'no regrets'....
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Amo ergo sum
solo voice or choir, equal or mixed voices
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: Kathleen Raine
Free-flowing setting of Kathleen Raine's ecstatic paean to the natural world. For solo voice or choir, equal or mixed voices....
Read More »An ainm an àigh
SA
Music: Emily Doolittle
Words: Rody Gorman
The second song in the suite is a love song addressed to a woman who has disappeared, selkie-like, at sea...
Read More »An Irish blessing
SA, organ
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: anon.
Traditional Irish blessings in a lovely arrangement for treble voices that would grace any wedding....
Read More »As if the sea should part
SSA
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: Emily Dickinson
A portrayal of the ever-shifting and apparently infinite sea....
Read More »Behold, my love, how green the groves
SSA, piano
Music: Trad. arr. Brad Pierson
Words: Robert Burns (1759–96)
A lilting Robert Burns song in praise of pastoral life....
Read More »Bird rounds
equal or mixed voices
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words:
Four varied rounds about birds - from the humble sparrow to the majestic eagle, chattering linnet to soaring skylark. Texts...
Read More »Both sides the Tweed
SSAA
Music: Dick Gaughan, arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Dick Gaughan (based on tradition)
“Think them poorest who can be a slave, them richest who dare to be free.” This is a stirring song...
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Bound for South Australia
SSAA
Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Trad.
A hearty shanty from the days of emigration to Australia....
Read More »Cable stitch
SSAA
Music: Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 — 1767) arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Sheena Phillips
The second song in the set Knitting Patterns...
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Chinese crane song
SSA, piano, optional flute & violin
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: Edwina Towson
Rural China from the perspective of the crane bird in flight, taking in all the life below. Spare harmonies and...
Read More »Christmas canon a 6 voci
6 equal or mixed voices
Music: David Johnson
Words: Late mediaeval English anon
“There is no rose of such virtue, as is the rose that bare Jesu”. A late-medieval English text set as...
Read More »Christmas round a 4 voci
4 equal or mixed voices
Music: David Johnson
Words: Martin Luther, trans. the brothers Wedderburn
Adoration of the Christ child is expressed here in a lovely canon. The text is based on Martin Luther's famous...
Read More »Come buy my cherries
3 or 4 part equal or mixed voices
Music: Dr. Stevenson, ed. Sheena Phillips
Words: Anon
Each line of this cheerful and raucous round forms a competing set of street market cries: “fine parsnips”, “fruit in...
Read More »Come hither boy
3 or 4 part equal or mixed voices
Music: Sheena Phillips (ed.)
Words: Anon
This mischievous round is a lesson for apprentices in business: often borrow, seldom lend, and never, never, never pay....
Read More »Dàn nan ròn
SA
Music: Emily Doolittle
Words: Rody Gorman
(Words in Gaelic). The title song of the suite is a lament: McCodrum will never return...
Read More »Dàn nan ròn set
SA, flute, cello
Music: Emily Doolittle
Words: Rody Gorman
A set of three Gaelic songs, evocative of Scottish folk song but at the same time fresh...
Read More »Deck the hall
SSA
Music: Trad. Welsh arr. Jennifer Bell
Words: Anon
A lively traditional New Year carol whose Welsh tune carries the name Nos Galan — “New Year's eve”....
Read More »Down in the river to pray
SSAA
Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Trad. American
The catchy gospel song made famous by the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
Read More »Down in the river to pray
SSA
Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Trad. American
The catchy gospel song made famous by the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
Read More »Eagle
equal or mixed, 3 parts
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
One of four Bird Rounds...
Read More »Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris
SA or treble voices & piano
Music: Trad. arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Trad. French
Gentle arrangement of the traditional French carol, with dreamy interludes....
Read More »Eriskay love lilt
SSAA
Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Trad. Gaelic
This is the Wild Myrtles arrangement of a lovely and heartfelt song collected by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser in 1905....
Read More »Exultation
SSA
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: Emily Dickinson
The headlong excitement of an ‘inland soul’ on first going to sea....
Read More »Full fathom five
SSA & piano
Music: Philip Wood
Words: William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
A magical setting of the famous song from Shakespeare's The Tempest....
Read More »Getting started
SSAA
Music: Antonio Caldara (1670 — 1736) arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Sheena Phillips
The first song in the set Knitting Patterns...
Read More »Hé mandu
SSAA
Music: Peter Hill
Words: Trad. Anon
A stirring and mesmeric Gaelic 'waulking song', traditionally sung by women during the communal fulling of newly-woven tweed....
Read More »Here we come a-wassailing
SSAA
Music: Trad. arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Trad. English
Lively arrangement of a traditional wassail song from Yorkshire in the North of England — with a barrage of trumpets...
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How can I keep from singing
SAA
Music: Robert Lowry arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Pauline T.
Harmonious and homophonic setting of the famous 19th century American hymn to singing....
Read More »I cannot sing the old songs
SSA
Music: Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–69) arr. Frances Cockburn
Words: Charlotte Alington Barnard
Sentimental and nostalgic song, written in 1868, but will still connect with people today....
Read More »I saw three ships
3 or 4 equal or mixed voices/instruments
Music: Trad. arr. Paul Ayres
Words: Trad. English
A flexibly scored Christmas rollick, shanty style, with a peal of bells to finish...
Read More »I shall light a candle
SSAA
Music: Trad. Bengali arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Trad. Bengali and 2 Esdras 14
Based on a traditional lilting Bengali song about “the way of life”......
Read More »I sing of a maiden
SAA
Music: Douglas Cook
Words: medieval anon
A lyrical and quietly rapturous soprano line is supported by two alto parts moving mostly in parallel thirds...
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