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979-0-57080-074-2 A Quaker Trilogy – choral score Available at MusicRoom Buy now (£4.95)

Description

Part of the A Quaker Trilogy collection

three pieces for SATB choir (with divisi)

by David McGregor, Joe Bates & Frederick Viner

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In setting William Penn's elegiac text, I attempted to use the choir as a collective voice for the powerful expression of love which reaches beyond the boundaries of our mortal existence. This idea of reaching is reflected musically, embodied by dovetailing iterations of an ascending motif antagonised by the overall descending contour of the music. This is a musical representation of a love which attempts to reach above the confines of the world [...]

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Categories
Duration
5 minutes 45 seconds
Libretto/text
William Penn
Commission

The Micklegate Singers

Scoring
1 SATB Choir
Composition date
2020

Performances

8 June 2024 The Mount School, Dalton Terrace, York, YO24 4DD

A Quaker Trilogy: from concept to completion.

Free admission - book tickets via York Festival of Ideas.

23 March 2024 St Lawrence's Church, Lawrence Street, York YO10 3WP

Micklegate Singers

'A Quaker Trilogy'

WORLD PREMIERE of the complete trilogy