Phillip Cooke

I Stood on a Tower (2008)

A setting of Alfred Tennyson’s I Stood on a Tower.

4′

SATB

fp. 03 March 2012; Arcadian Singers, John Forster, Keble College, Oxford, UK

I Stood on a Tower (pdf)

PROGRAMME NOTE

I Stood on a Tower is a simple setting of the Alfred Lord Tennyson poem for SATB unaccompanied choir. The chord of a minor ninth is the harmonic colouring that binds the work together, enhancing the melancholy of Tennyson’s poem.

PAC