William Sweeney: The Tree o' Licht [download]
£5.75
Typeset score (9pp) in PDF format for immediate download.
Piece for two cellos (2008). 'Commissioned by the RSAMD for Stringfest 2008 and in memory of my mother, Jean Sweeney (1916-2007).'
"There's mair in birds than men ha'e faddomed yet.
Tho' maist churn oot the stock sangs o'their kind
There's aiblins genius here and there; and aince
'Mang whitebeams, hollies, siller birks -
- The tree o' licht -
I mind
I used to hear a blackie mony a niche
Singin' awa t'an unconscionable 'oor
Wi' nocht but the water keepin't company....."
from: By Wauchopeside, by Hugh MacDiarmid