'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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SATB
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...
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SATB
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 carol for the wanderer
SATB, optional piano
Music: Trad. arr. Andrew Adams
Words: Andrew Adams
A rousing pagan carol for a mid-winter concert, welcoming Odin (the Wanderer, or All-Father) to the feast...
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TB, optional piano
Music: Trad. arr. Andrew Adams
Words: Andrew Adams
A rousing pagan carol for a mid-winter concert, welcoming Odin (the Wanderer, or All-Father) to the feast...
Read More »A man's a man for a' that
SAB
Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn
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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A Manx lullaby
SATB
Music: Frances Cockburn
Words: Trad. Anon
A warmly harmonised setting of traditional Manx words, featuring separate female and male voice verses and full SATB refrains....
Read More »A parting glass
SATB
Music: Trad. arr. Peter Hill
Words: Trad. Anon
An ideal concert finisher or encore, featuring the classic Irish mix of tears and beers...
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Prayer for peace
SAB & organ
Music: David Barton
Words: Scottish Psalter of 1650
A simple and beautifully structured prayer for peace, based on words from the Scottish Psalter of 1650....
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 »A sequence of carols
SATB
Music: Douglas Cook
Words: Anon
Four contrasting settings of medieval English texts, mixing old and new idioms...
Read More »A Shepherd's tale
SATB chorus with descant, treble solo, children’s choir,
Music: Richard Nye
Words: Mandy Anson
A charming narrative anthem for the adventurous church or school choir, told from the point of view of a shepherd...
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Aalo Aamar Aalo
SATB, piano
Music: Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Rabindranath Tagore
An ecstatic paean to light — “heart-sweetening, eye-kissing light” — by the major Bengali poet, composer, playwright, artist and author...
Read More »Ae fond kiss SATB
SATB
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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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'....
Read More »All for me grog
TBB, piano
Music: Trad. arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Trad.
All for me grog (a.k.a. Across the Western Ocean) is a delightfully rambling grumble about the tough life on board...
Read More »Along the river
SSATB
Music: trad. Russian arr. Irina Walters
Words: trad. Russian and Sheena Phillips
A youth is absorbed in thoughts of his love-life. Delightful Russian folk song with a catchy tune....
Read More »Amazing grace
SATB
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: John Newton
A jazz setting that builds up from quiet 5-part harmony in verse 1 to a rollicking finale...
Read More »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
two-part voices, keyboard
Music: Jennifer Bell
Words: anon. (adapted by the composer)
A blessing for partings, set simply and very teachably, for any combination of voices or instruments....
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SA, organ
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: anon.
Traditional Irish blessings in a lovely arrangement for treble voices that would grace any wedding....
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SATB
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: anon.
A new take on traditional Irish blessings, with mixed meter (3/4, 4/4) and a calm, expansive feel. Perfect for weddings...
Read More »An tàillear mhór
SATB
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: Trad. Anon
He'd love to go off with the tall tailoress, but unfortunately he has an extremely unpleasant wife to dispose of...
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 »Auld Lang Syne
SATB
Music: Trad. arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Burns' famous song of enduring friendship, traditional for Hogmanay (New Year) but suitable year round...
Read More »Aurora Rutilat
SATB divisi
Music: Sheena Phillips
Words: From the Inchcolm Antiphoner
'Aurora rutilat lucis prenuncia...' ('Dawn glows red, heralding daylight'). Atmospheric and soaring setting of a 6th century text...
Read More »Ave Maria
Soprano solo
Music: Philip Wood
Words: Trad
(Words in Latin) Two beautiful motets by Philip Wood for solo soprano voice....
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Soprano solo
Music: Philip Wood
Words: Trad
(Words in Latin) Two beautiful motets by Philip Wood for solo soprano voice....
Read More »Awake were they only
TTB
Music: Trad. Welsh melody, arranged by Sheena Phillips
Words: English by K.E.Roberts (1877-1962), based on the original Welsh
A strong carol for a cappella male voices, in the harmonious Welsh plygain tradition....
Read More »Ay Waukin, O
SATB
Music: 17th c. anon. arr. Sheena Phillips
Words: Robert Burns (1759-1796)
'Sleep I can get nane, for thinkin on my dearie...' A simple setting of Burns' plaintive song of sorrow...
Read More »Ballad
SATB
Music: Ernest Buck (1908-1975), arr. Michael Buck
Words: William Soutar (1898-1943)
'O! Shairly ye hae seen my love doun whaur the waters wind?' A short, stark ballad...
Read More »Ballad of lost ladye
SATB
Music: Michael Buck
Words: Helen B. Cruickshank (1886-1975)
A mysterious and chilling story, allegedly based on a true incident...
Read More »Balulalow
SATB with S and T soli
Music: 16th C. anon. arr. Douglas Cook
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...
Read More »Barb'ra Allen
SATB
Music: Trad. arr. Richard John
Words: Trad. Anon
A beautiful and flowing arrangement of the well known traditional song....
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