Description
for SATB choir, unaccompanied and with piano Nine classic Chilcott songs including original pieces and arrangements of traditional material. The varied nature of the collection highlights Chilcott's prodigious gifts. Some of the pieces are published here for the first time. Orchestral arrangements for Ar Hyd y Nos (fl, ob, hn, hp, str), O Danny boy (2.2.2.2-2.0.0.0-hp-str), and The Skye Boat Song (2.2.2.2-0.0.3.1-hp-str) are available on hire.
About the Author
Bob Chilcott has become one of the world's most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music. His compositional output reflects his wide taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and communicative. He has been involved in choral music most of his life he was a chorister and then a choral scholar in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers for whom he made a number of popular arrangements of well-known songs from all genres. As well as being a full-time composer he is also a highly acclaimed choral conductor. He has been privileged to conduct many choirs all over the world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers and in 2019 he was appointed Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by many choirs and groups including The King's Singers, Tenebrae, and The BBC Singers.
Reviews
The idiom [of 'The Lily and the Rose'] is gentle, restrained and melancholy without being remote, the harmonies warm and plangent without being cloying, the rhythms crisp and often (deliberately) repetitive, the form clean, clear, and concise, the whole well and sensitively conceived for the forces for which it was written, in this case a youth choir. . . . There is originality [in 'The Runner'] in the rhythmic huffings and pantings of the voices that underlay the canonic interplay of the sung parts, and real drive in the latter stages as Whitman's text is abandoned and the wordless, jagged rhythms articulated earlier in the piece take over and are developed into a climactic, jazzy, angular, multi-layered harmony. * Matthew Greenall, The Singer, June 07 *
All these pieces are available separately, but this is a worthwhile investment; apart from anything, the pieces are well crafted and fun to sing, and you may find some new Chilcott gems here you otherwise may have missed. * Jonathan Wikeley, Music Teacher Sept 07 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193355712
Author Bob Chilcott
Page Count 72
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 155g
Dimensions(mm) 249mm * 174mm * 5mm
About the Author
Bob Chilcott has become one of the world's most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music. His compositional output reflects his wide taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and communicative. He has been involved in choral music most of his life he was a chorister and then a choral scholar in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers for whom he made a number of popular arrangements of well-known songs from all genres. As well as being a full-time composer he is also a highly acclaimed choral conductor. He has been privileged to conduct many choirs all over the world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers and in 2019 he was appointed Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by many choirs and groups including The King's Singers, Tenebrae, and The BBC Singers.
Reviews
The idiom [of 'The Lily and the Rose'] is gentle, restrained and melancholy without being remote, the harmonies warm and plangent without being cloying, the rhythms crisp and often (deliberately) repetitive, the form clean, clear, and concise, the whole well and sensitively conceived for the forces for which it was written, in this case a youth choir. . . . There is originality [in 'The Runner'] in the rhythmic huffings and pantings of the voices that underlay the canonic interplay of the sung parts, and real drive in the latter stages as Whitman's text is abandoned and the wordless, jagged rhythms articulated earlier in the piece take over and are developed into a climactic, jazzy, angular, multi-layered harmony. * Matthew Greenall, The Singer, June 07 *
All these pieces are available separately, but this is a worthwhile investment; apart from anything, the pieces are well crafted and fun to sing, and you may find some new Chilcott gems here you otherwise may have missed. * Jonathan Wikeley, Music Teacher Sept 07 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780193355712
Author Bob Chilcott
Page Count 72
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 155g
Dimensions(mm) 249mm * 174mm * 5mm
