Birthday madrigals : a choral suite for mixed choir with double bass and/or keyboard / John Rutter.

By: Rutter, John, 1945-.

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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Music Dept., Oxford University Press, c1995Description: 1 score (46 p.) ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0193380293.Subject(s): Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble -- Scores

| Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied

| Suites

DDC classification: S/1970

Contents:

It was a lover and his lass / words by Shakespeare -- Draw on, sweet night / words possibly by John Wilbye -- Come live with me / words by Marlowe and (attributed to) Raleigh -- My true love hath my heart / words by Sir Philip Sidney -- When daisies pied / words by Shakespeare (vv.1, 2) and Peele (v.3)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending	S/1970 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00082052

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

for SATB with optional double bass and optional piano
These pieces may be performed individually or as a five-movement suite. Numbers 1, 4, and 5 are also published for upper voices and keyboard as Three Birthday Madrigals.
The music captures the varied moods of the words with their rapture, sorrow, humour, and vitality in a way which makes these classic madrigal texts come alive for contemporary audiences.

"If the suite is performed complete ... Nos. 2 and 4 are to be sung unaccompanied"--T.p. verso..

Duration: 16:00.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

It was a lover and his lass
Draw on, sweet night
Come live with me
My true love hath my heart
When daisies pied

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of Christmas carols and other choral pieces during those early years; today his compositions, including such concert-length works as Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, The Gift of Life, and Visions are performed around the world.John edits the Oxford Choral Classics series, and, with Sir David Willcocks, co-edited four volumes of Carols for Choirs. In 1983 he formed his own choir The Cambridge Singers, with whom he has made numerous recordings on the Collegium Records label, and he appears regularly in several countries as a guest conductor and choral ambassador.John holds a Lambeth Doctorate in Music, and was awarded a CBE for services to music in 2007.