The six poems set here are all to be found in '100 Poems on the Underground'. For SATB (divisi) A Cappella.
Text by Robert Herrick 1591-1674
Score and parts for Thea Musgrave's Pierrot, arranged for Violin, Clarinet and Piano. Duration 17 minutes.
Thea Musgrave's Psalm 147 - The Orgelbiichlein Project for solo Organ. Commissioned by Graeme Kay, Premiered by Martin Baker in the Grand Organ Festival at Westminster Cathedral on 29November 2017.
For Solo Piano. Written in 2009.
Scored for Clarinet in B Flat and Piano. Commissioned by Victoria Soames in memory of Roger Fallows. First performed June 1997. Duration: c. 8 minutes.
A very short take on the popular tune for Nicholas Daniel's sixtieth birthday. Premiered alongside miniatures composed for occasion by other composers at the Wigmore Hall, London on 20 April 2022.
This was commissioned by the Norfolk and Norwich Triennial Music Festival in 1964. It was first performed by the Festival Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Charles Mackerras.
Two Christmas Carols in Traditional Style were composed in 1966. It sets two poems by the British poet Norman Nicholson (1914-1987): the Carol for the Watchers and the WiseMan'sCarol. They are scored...
Nurse's Songs was originally written as part of a volume entitled Innocence and Experience, which takes its texts from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, an illustrated collection of poems by Willi...
Innocence and Experience takes its texts from Songs of Innocence and of Experience, an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake, which was first published in two volumes in 1789 and 1794. Each...
Make Ye Merry For Him That Is Come was commissioned by the London Co-operative Society Ltd in 1961, and dedicated to the British conductor and educator Graham Treacher (b. 1932). It is scored for Sopr...
Poems by Hart Crane from White Buildings, set by Thea Musgrave for womens' voices, piano and percussion. Black Tambourine was commissioned by the Musart Singers, who gave the first performance at the...
Set for SATB voices by Thea Musgrave.
Memento Creatoris, an anthem for SATB choir was comissioned by the BBC Transcription Service for the Aldeburgh Festival in 1967.
For The Time Being is a setting of the first section of W. H. Auden's poem of the same title, written in 1945. This work was commissioned by the BBC for the BBC singers, who gave the first performance...
Rorate Coeli for unaccompanied chorus, was written in 1973 in response to a commission from the National Federation of Music Societies in Great Britain. It was first performed by the Thomas Tallis cho...
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Proms. First performed by the BBC singers, conducted by David Hill on 4th September 2010 at Cadogan Hall, London. For SATB a cappella.
Thea Musgrave's O Caro M'e Il Sonno was first published in Musical Times supplement, December 1978. Arranged for SATB chorus the piece has a duration of approximately 2 minutes.
Song Of The Burn is a 'cantata for a summer's day' written in 1954 by Thea Musgrave for SATB voices, with a Piano accompaniment supplied for rehearsal. Based on a text by Maurice Lindsay.
On The Underground (or 'A Medieval Summer') is based upon texts from Poems On The Underground, and was commissioned by the Ionian Singers with funds from The Holst Foundation. Written by Thea Musgrave...
This short choral work was written to celebrate the twenty-fifth season (2012/2013) of The New York Virtuoso Singers.
This is the Vocal Score for The Voices Of Our Ancestors by Thea Musgrave. This work is scored for a chorus with soloists (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone) as well as a semi-chorus, drawn fr...
Musgrave's setting of The Lord's Prayer, for SATB and organ. Commissioned by the American Guild of Organists National Convention, San Francisco. Duration: 4 minutes.
Thea Musgrave's arrangement of the Anonymous 15th century text 'Adam Lay Ybounden' is scored for Children's Voices, SATB Choir and Piano, a performance of which lasts around 2 minutes.
Thea Musgrave's Missa Brevis for SATB and Organ. Thea Musgrave's Missa Brevis was given its first performance by Wells Cathedral Choir, on the Feast of John the Baptist, Sunday 24th June, 2018, by We...
Thea Musgrave's Collect for the Birth of John the Baptist for SATB.
A work for SATB choir and organ setting an excerpt from Ode for Music on Saint Cecilia's Day by Alexander Pope. It was first performed as part of the Festival of St Cecilia 2018 at St Paul's Cathedral...
A setting of the final stanza of By the River by the New Zealand poet Mary Ursula Bethell. The river's flow, which is used as a metaphor for life's journey, is echoed in the music's gently swirling co...
Midnight by Thea Musgrave was commissioned by Laura Lane & the Nova Singers for the American Choral Directors National Convention in San Antonio, Texas, March 4th 1993. Set to text by John Keats. Scor...
Part-song for SATB Choir A Cappella by the award-winning Scottish composer.
Voices of Power and Protest was first performed on March 26th 2007 by The New York Virtuoso Singers, conducted by Harold Rosenbaum, at the Hall of the New York Society of Ethical Culture, New York.
Thea Musgrave's arrangement of the Anonymous 15th century text 'Adam Lay Ybounden' is scored for Children's Voices and Piano, a performance of which lasts around 2 minutes.
Going North was commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York for 'Transient Glory, the Voices of Children', Francisco J. Nunez, artistic director. First performed at the Transient Glory Conce...
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the Postcards from Composers series in 2020. Written during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, the solo viola reacts to the journey through life during the pandemic with de...
Thea Musgrave's Postcards From Spain is a fascinating travelogue of Spain without being overly Spanish, from the tranquility of sunlight reflecting off still pools to the dramatic song of the Cantaor...
Musgrave from Spring to Spring for solo Marimba.
In Homage to Couperin
Commissioned by the sound festival for The Scottish Flute Trio. First performance: November 13, 2008. Duff House, Banff, Scotland. In this work all three players in turn play each of the three instrum...
Commissioned by the sound festival for The Scottish Flute Trio. First performance: November 13, 2008. Duff House, Banff, Scotland. In this work all three players in turn play each of the three instru...
Thea Musgrave decided to write some pieces for pairs of instruments, partly for use in teaching and partly for the fun of hearing two of the same instruments performing together as they do in Mozart o...
Four short movements for two Bassoons. Composer's Note. Take Two Bassoons is planned as one of a series of light-hearted works for pairs of instruments, written with advice from performers who are al...
Elegy for viola and cello was written in April 1970 for Peter Mark and Geoffrey Rutlowski while the composer was guest professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Duration 8 minutes.
This work was written in 1958. It was commissioned by the University of Glasgow under the terms of the McEwen Bequest.
Musgrave 'Impromptu No. 1' arranged for Flute and Oboe. Performing Score edition.
This was commissioned by the Department of Music, University College, Cardiff, in association with the Welsh Arts Council. It was written in the summer of 1970 in Santa Barbara where the composer had...
This very short work, written in 1997, is for unaccompanied viola. It is intended as a moment of peaceful contemplation after the day's activities cease.
Thea Musgrave's D. E. S. - In Celebration was composed in 2016 and is arranged for solo Cello. Duration approximately 3 minutes.
Composer's NoteNarcissus wanders through the forest, observing, enjoying... unselfconscious but self-absorbed. He sees as pool of water and then as he approaches notices his reflection in the water. H...
Thea Musgrave's Circe. An incantation for three flutes.
Composed for Horn In F, for Margaret Kitchin and Barry Tuckwell.
A work for unaccompanied oboe wrriten for Nicholas Daniel, who gave the world premiere at Thea Musgrave's 90th birthday concert at St Mary the Virgin, New York City, May 27, 2018.
This short work was written to celebrate an important birthday of Nicholas Daniel. It starts in a languorous Eb major and travels to a joyous A major sunlight.
Walking down a darkened street it's hard to resist looking in through lighted windows and catching a glimpse of other people's lives. The imagination lingers...Night Windows is the title of a painting...
Colloquy was written for Manoug Parikian and Lamar Crowson for their recital at the Cheltenham Festival in 1960. There are four concise movements. The first, a fast movement with vigorous rhythmic mot...
Musgrave Thea Five Songs For Spring Baritone Voice & Piano Accomp
Five Love Songs are scored for Soprano and Guitar They were composed in 1955, making them one of the composer's earliest published works. They are dedicated to the Soprano Flore Wend and the guitarist...
A Suite O Bairnsangs, poems by Maurice Lindsay. Arranged for high voice and piano. Commissioned for Scottish Festival 1953.
A work for Soprano, Woodwind, 2 Horns and Strings. Duration: circa 15 minutes Programme Note: 'This work was commissioned as a possible companion piece to Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate and the decision...
With words from Robert Burns and Music by Thea Musgrave, A Winter's Morning was written for Dennis Stevenson.
A song cycle for Tenor, Baritone and Piano four-hands. Commissioned by Dickinson College in 2008 for The Florestan Recital Project, Musical Artists in Residence First performance March 4, 2010 Dickin...
The Clarinet Concerto was written in 1968 in response to a commission from the Royal Philharmonic Society. It was first performed in February 1969 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davi...
This was composed in 1971.
This work was commissioned by the BBC (Scotland) and the Saltire Society to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Beethoven. The first performance was by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, 1970, condu...
A concerto for Percussion and Orchestra. Full Score. Commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. First performance: Tuesday 4 January 2005, Usher Hall, Edinburgh by Colin Currie (solo...
Marko the Miser is designed the children to mime, sing and play and can be done either as a concert performance or a stage piece. The words are by the composer and Frederic Samson and are based on a s...
Thea Musgrave's The Last Twilight was composed in 1980 and is arranged for SATB and Brass Ensemble. commissioned by Anthony Branch and New Mexico D H Lawrence Festival, the piece has a duration of app...
Songs For A Winter's Evening to poems by Robert Burns. Arranged for soprano and piano. Duration 21 minutes.
Excursions for piano duet are a group of eight short pieces written in 1965, and intended for children or those who are learning to play the piano.
This is a short work lasting only five minutes. It was written for Margaret Kitchen in 1960.
Arranged for Nicholas Daniel.
In Greek mythology Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion, King of Thebes. She unwisely boasted to Leto about her many sons and daughters. Leto, who only had two children, Apollo and A...
Primavera is a short virtuosic work for Flute and Coloratura Soprano. It was written in 1971, and premiered by Dorothy Dorow at her concert at the Zagreb Festival of Contemporary Music. It takes its l...
Chamber Concerto No 1 was written in the winter of 1961-62. It is scored for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola and cello. It is dedicated to Robin and Margaret Orr and wa...
This piece provides a compositional challenge to find a balance between 2 wind instruments and piano, the general structure of the piece is evolved so that different balances between the 3 instruments...
Originally composed for Flute and Digital Delay, Narcissus was first performed on 15th January 1988 at the Purcell Room, London by Janet Larsson.
1. EOS: The Goddess of the Dawn, who travelled on the winds and sprinkled down dew upon the earth2. PAN: The God of the countryside, of flocks, shepherds and animals, a famous player of the syrinx, or...
For Clarinet solo, with wind quartet and string quartet. Score Only First performed by Michael Collins, Clarinet, London Winds and the Endellion String Quartet on 27th January 2011 at the Wigmore Hall...
This is the Full Score and Parts for The Voices Of Our Ancestors by Thea Musgrave. This work is scored for a chorus with soloists (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Tenor and Baritone), Brass Quintet and Organ....
Commissioned by the Buck Hill-Skytop Music Festival, 2010, and first performed on August 6th 2010 at the Skytop Lodge, Skytop, PA, by Dan Snyder (tenor) and Annabelle Taubl (harp). This work was writ...
Canta, Canta! is a slow and expressive piece for Clarinet, Cello and Piano by Thea Musgrave. This short song is taken from Cantata for a Summer's Day, written in 1954 while the composer was a student...
For Chamber Orchestra (Flute, Oboe, Cor Anglais, Basson, Horn in F, Trumpet in C, Strings: [5. 4. 3. 2. 1]) Composer's Programme Note: Points of View is a work about the different musical elements, wh...
Cantilena was commissioned by the London Chamber Music Society to celebrate their move to King's Place in October 2008. First performed by Nicholas Daniel and members of the Chilingirian Quartet at K...
