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On yesternight I saw a sight

choir (SSAA) a cappella
Product number: BH 13713
Edition: Choral score, with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
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Composer's note:
On yesternight I saw a sight was set as a means of thanking Jo Tomlinson for promoting and recording my music with the excellent choristers of Farnham Youth Choir. Knowing that the group’s ethos is to memorise the music, I intentionally set the text in a strophic fashion in which the odd-numbered verses act as a unison chorus that later forms a round. The text is inherently rhythmical and joyous. To my mind, it could only be a 12/8 jig reminiscent of a traditional folk dance. For the work’s final exclamation, I originally added “Noel” to the text. However, singing the final letter of this word while singing a top A is unnecessarily difficult. Thus I instead set the medieval Latin term, “Noe”. By happy coincidence, this rhymes with the last two words of the sixth verse. The final chorus - harmonised for the first time and accompanied by a descant – hurriedly asks for God’s grace in these ever uncertain times so that he may “be born in us today”.”
- Gareth Treseder -

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Title:
On yesternight I saw a sight
Edition:
Choral score, with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
Level of difficulty:
advanced
Publisher/Label:
Boosey & Hawkes
Duration:
2 ′
Series:
Title:
On yesternight I saw a sight
Language:
English
Edition:
Choral score, with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
Level of difficulty:
advanced
Publisher/Label:
Boosey & Hawkes
Duration:
2 ′
Series:
Title:
On yesternight I saw a sight
Language:
English
Edition:
Choral score, with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
Level of difficulty:
advanced
Publisher/Label:
Boosey & Hawkes
Duration:
2 ′
Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
BH 13713
ISMN13:
979-0-060-13713-6
ISBN13:
978-1-78454-590-1
Product number:
BH 13713
ISMN13:
979-0-060-13713-6
ISBN13:
978-1-78454-590-1
UPC:
840126947229
Weight:
0,03 kg
Pages:
12
Format:
18.5cm x 26cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Product number:
BH 13713 Q53924
ISMN13:
979-0-060-13713-6
ISBN13:
978-1-78454-590-1
Pages:
12
File format:
(PDF / 2,30 MB)

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