Grace-Evangeline Mason
A Winter Carol
for SATB a cappella
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Grace-Evangeline Mason
A Winter Carol
for SATB a cappella
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB)
- Composer Grace-Evangeline Mason
- Series Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Piano Score
- Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
- Order no. BH14009
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Description:
Each year the BBC Music Magazine commissions a brand-new Christmas Carol for their readers and, when Grace-Evangeline Mason was invited to compose the 2021 carol, she decided to write and set her own poem titled A Winter Carol. The words, which depict snowy scenery and starry allusions to heaven and earth, also include a modern twist as the composer dreams of walking home at Christmas time under the warm glow of the street lamps all covered in a silver frost. Written in three verses with a short refrain in between repeating the word 'winter,' the piece is a small, celebratory reflection of Christmas time. The carol begins in quiet consideration before opening up to feel hearty and warm. After a playful midsection, the work returns to a softer final coda, which is reminiscent of the opening.