Three Gaelic Songs (2017)

Choral: Secular
Written By Tobias Wolf

from Coronach (2021)

1. Saoil a Mhòr am Pòs Thu
2. Guma Slàn do na Gillean
3. Air Do Shlàinte Mhàiri ‘n Dotair

SATB

Duration:
5′

First performance:
5 November 2017
Blairgowrie Town Hall, Perth Gaelic Choir

Score

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Programme note

Three Gaelic Songs are colourful arrangements of folksongs collected by folklorist, poet and collector Hamish Henderson (1919 – 2002) and form part of a larger project, Coronach (2021), involving Henderson and his work. The three songs are fast-slow-fast, with the outer songs settings of characteristic ‘mouth-music’ that were vocal works designed for dancing to. The middle song is more reflective and may have been a ‘waulking’ song sung by local women whilst beating newly woven tweed to soften it.

PAC

Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf is a photographer, musician and artist based in North East Scotland. With a background in conducting, composition and hybrid media, his creative practice has long been shaped by an interest in atmosphere, structure and the relationship between sound, image and place. Photography has been a lifelong companion — a way of slowing down, noticing light, and finding quiet meaning in everyday scenes.

https://www.tpwolf.com
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