How Clear, How Lovely (2010)
January 14th, 2012
How Clear, How Lovely (2010)
A setting of Alfred Housman’s XVI.
5′
SATB
fp. 03 March 2012; Arcadian Singers, John Forster, Keble College, Oxford, UK
How Clear, How Lovely (pdf)
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.
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