Sally Beamish

Scottish Music Centre

Sally Beamish - Catalogue

Catalogue


Bird Year (2006)
 Programme Note available
Sally Beamish
Commissioned by Phoenix Singers of Shrewsbury with financial assistance from the Arts Council of England, the PRS, and Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council.
First performance:
Phoenix Singers of Shrewsbury, St. Chad's, Shrewsbury, 01 Apr 2006

Work Details

Category: choral unaccompanied
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: SATB

SMC Holdings

   Score : unpublished / Location: ref library   [buy]
   Score : unpublished / Location: hard disk (sibelius file)   [enquire]
Programme Note

The four poems are my own, and suggest the continuity of life by representing each season with a particular bird. The music is characterised by raw intervals; 4ths, 5ths and semitones.
Notes

For the Phoenix Singers of Shrewsbury