Douglas Cook

Douglas Cook has written and arranged music all his working life, firstly as a teacher and director of music in secondary schools in the south of England, and now in busy retirement in the Lake District. Singing has always been important too: he trained as a Quirister at Winchester College and currently directs a small chamber choir, Nova Cantica. He has a particular interest in medieval and Renaissance music.

A boy was born

SAA
Words: Anon. (trans. Dearmer)

Douglas Cook's vigorous version of this ancient and joyful carol has a modal flavour...

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A boy was born

SATB
Words: Anon. (trans. Dearmer)

Douglas Cook's vigorous version of this ancient and joyful carol has a modal flavour...

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A sequence of carols

SAA
Words: Anon

Four contrasting settings of medieval English texts, mixing old and new idioms...

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A sequence of carols

SATB
Words: Anon

Four contrasting settings of medieval English texts, mixing old and new idioms...

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Balulalow

SATB with S and T soli
Words: Anon. (16th century)

'I come from hevin heich to tell the best nowells that e'er befell.' A plangent and flowing 16th century lullaby...

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I sing of a maiden

SAA
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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I sing of a maiden

SAA
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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In excelsis gloria

SAA
Words: Anon

A piece with exciting variations in voicing and meter...

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In excelsis gloria

SATB
Words: Anon

A piece with exciting variations in voicing and meter...

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Planet Earth

Riddle song

SSA
Words: Anon

Traditional English riddle song: “I will give my love an apple without any core”...

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Planet Earth

Searching for lambs

SATB
Words: Traditional English

A youth — with marriage on his mind — waylays a young girl as she goes to feed the lambs...

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Planet Earth

The seeds of love

SATB
Words: Trad. Anon

Garden metaphors abound in this sweet and wistful traditional song about love....

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The virgin's cradle hymn

SAA
Words: Anon

Douglas Cook's exquisite setting swells and dies in two-bar phrases, also rocking gently between major and minor tonalities....

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The virgin's cradle hymn

SATB
Words: Anon

Douglas Cook's exquisite setting swells and dies in two-bar phrases, also rocking gently between major and minor tonalities....

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Planet Earth

What shall we do with a drunken sailor

SSA
Words: Anon

A lively and humorous arrangement of the toe-tapping shanty....

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Planet Earth

Whistle, daughter, whistle

SATB
Words: Trad. Anon

A young girl is impatient to get married, but her mother thinks she'd be better off with a sheep or...

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