Frances Cockburn

Frances leads the successful Edinburgh-based a cappella trio Simmerdim.  She was a founder/member of a cappella group the Wild Myrtles for seven years; and before that, from 2000 to 2006, she was the Musical Director of Rudsambee company of singers.  She writes and arranges a steady stream of choral music, much of it deeply rooted in the Scots tradition.

A man's a man for a' that

SAB
Words: Robert Burns (1759-1796)

This stirring song by Robert Burns, written in 1795, extols the worth of the poor yet honest man...

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Planet Earth

A Manx lullaby

SATB
Words: Trad. Anon

A warmly harmonised setting of traditional Manx words, featuring separate female and male voice verses and full SATB refrains....

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Ae fond kiss SATB

SATB
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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Ae fond kiss SSAA

SSAA
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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Both sides the Tweed

SATB
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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Both sides the Tweed

SSAA
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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Planet Earth

Bound for South Australia

SSAA
Words: Trad.

A hearty shanty from the days of emigration to Australia....

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Bound for South Australia

SSAB
Words: Trad.

A hearty shanty from the days of emigration to Australia....

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Bound for South Australia

TTBB
Words: Trad.

A hearty shanty from the days of emigration to Australia....

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Do not stand at my grave and weep

SATB
Words: Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905–2004)

'I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow...' A positive and uplifting memorial song...

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Planet Earth

Down by the salley gardens

SATB
Words: W.B.Yeats

'She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree...'. One of our best sellers...

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Down in the river to pray

SSAA
Words: Trad. American

The catchy gospel song made famous by the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?...

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Down in the river to pray

SSA
Words: Trad. American

The catchy gospel song made famous by the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?...

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Eriskay love lilt

SSAA
Words: Trad. Gaelic

This is the Wild Myrtles arrangement of a lovely and heartfelt song collected by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser in 1905....

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He wishes for the cloths of heaven

SATB
Words: W.B.Yeats

A quiet, simple and beautiful original setting of Yeats' wonderful love poem...

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How can I keep from singing

SAA
Words: Pauline T.

Harmonious and homophonic setting of the famous 19th century American hymn to singing....

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I cannot sing the old songs

SSA
Words: Charlotte Alington Barnard

Sentimental and nostalgic song, written in 1868, but will still connect with people today....

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I sing of a maiden

SSAA
Words: medieval anon

Close harmonies and a lilting meter distinguish this strophic setting of the lovely medieval English hymn to Mary....

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I'll tell me ma

SSAA
Words: Trad. English/Irish

An a cappella take on the children's playground song about courtship, marriage and children ......

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I'll tell me ma

SSAB
Words: Trad. English/Irish

An a cappella take on the children's playground song about courtship. Bass range suitable for changing voices....

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Let me in this ae night

SSA
Words: Trad. and Robert Burns

The timeless tale of boy seeking girl, given a witty and folky musical setting....

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Let me in this ae night

TBB
Words: Trad. and Robert Burns

The timeless tale of boy seeking girl, given a witty and folky musical setting....

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Living in love

SATB
Words: Anne Bradstreet

Setting of a poem by Anne Bradstreet, one of America's first female poets. Great text for a wedding....

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Maria durch ein Dornwald ging

SAA
Words: trad. German

Beautiful old German carol about Mary in the thorn-wood, simply arranged....

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Mary's song

SATB
Words: Marion Angus (1865-1946)

'I wad hae gi'en him my lips to kiss, had I been his...' A song of regret for lost chances...

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Minnie O'Shirva's cradle song

SAB
Words: Trad. Anon

A charming lullaby, nuanced by the Shetland dialect, in SAB format suitable for changing voices....

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Minnie O'Shirva's cradle song

SATB
Words: Trad. Anon

A charming lullaby, nuanced by the Shetland dialect, in a format suitable for soloist and backing vocals....

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Minnie O'Shirva's cradle song (SSAA)

SSAA
Words: Trad. Anon

A charming lullaby, nuanced by the Shetland dialect, in a format suitable for two soloists and backing vocals....

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Munelight amang the pines

SATB
Words: Hugh MacDiarmid

Poetry sung aloud is the style of this wistful setting, evoking the play of light and shadow...

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Taivas on sininen

SATB
Words: Trad. Finnish

(Words in Finnish). A charming traditional Finnish song....

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The bonny lads

SSA
Words: Trad.

Two Northumbrian songs about unattainable bonny lads...

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The Coventry carol (SAA)

SAA
Words: 16th C. anon

A homophonic arrangement for female voices of the well known Christmastide lament....

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Planet Earth

The lavender it grows high

SSA
Words: Frances Cockburn

A finely crafted song of requited love, written in the folk tradition....

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The wee sma' glen

SATB
Words: Marion Angus (1865-1946)

A strophic setting of a folk-style Scots poem celebrating a quiet and beautiful place in rural Perthshire....

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Three Marion Angus songs

SATB
Words: Marion Angus

Three poems in Scots vernacular – images of landscape and home life as a setting for love and loss....

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Winds of the world

SATB
Words: Marion Angus (1865-1946)

Love can be blown away like a flower in the wind, but it still leaves a trace in the heart....

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