Green (2012)
from Three Partsongs (2008-12)
A Setting of DH Lawrence’s Green.
SATB
Duration:
3′
First Performance:
21 March 2013
Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge, Nicholas Cleobury, St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London, UK
Scottish premiere:
22 November 2013
Choir of King’s College Aberdeen, David Smith, St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, UK
Score
Programme note
Green is a simple setting of DH Lawrence’s poem for SATB unaccompanied choir. The work is one of a protracted set of ‘partsongs’ taking their influence from the Romantic idea of the partsong as a simple, homophonic, melody dominated piece often taking its inspiration from nature and other Romantic notions.
PAC
