Howard Skempton
Song's Eternity
for SS unaccompanied
Howard Skempton
Song's Eternity
for SS unaccompanied
- Instrumentation Women's Choir (SS)
- Composer Howard Skempton
- Series New Horizons
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Order no. 9780193371811
Description:
Skempton's simple and reflective setting of John Clare's poem was commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival and composed for The Abbey Chapel Choir, Woodbridge. With its fluid changes of time signature and unusual harmonic inflections, Song's Eternity evokes a sound-world unique to Skempton. The modest scoring and simple movement within the parts make the work accessible to all upper-voice or treble choirs looking to try something new.