Edition
Ref. :
HMC 1754
Type of material:
Choral score
Description
Text in:
English
+ adapted in
Celt
Epoque:
20th century
(1990-2000)
Genre-Style-Form:
Sacred ; Christmas carol
Mood of the piece:
joyous ; bittersweet
Type of Choir:
SSA (3 children OR women OR young children OR boy choir voices )
Instrumentation:
Piano
(2 instrumental part(s))
Instruments:
Piano (1) ; C instrument (1)
Difficulty choir (incr.from 1 to 5):
2
Difficulty conductor (incr.from A to E):
B
Tonality:
A aeolian
Duration:
3.0 min.
Source of text:
Anon medieval Irish
Comment(s):
This work was written for the Toronto Children’s Chorus, Jean Ashworth Bartle, director. The text is a traditional Irish poem from the Renaissance; the writing is lyrical, modal, and harmonically inventive. The setting crescendos to an impassioned climax and fades poignantly wistfully in the final strains of the recorder.