How Clear, How Lovely (2010)
from Three Partsongs (2008-12)
A setting of Alfred Housman’s XVI.
SATB
Duration:
5′
First Performance:
3 March 2012
Arcadian Singers, John Forster, Keble College, Oxford, UK
London premiere
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
Dutch premiere
11 September 2016
Het Zingend Hart, Rob Kapetein, Scheltema, Leiden, The Netherlands
Score
Programme note
How Clear, How Lovely is a simple setting of Alfred Housman’s famous 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
