Songs of the North
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2026
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Vocal score
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-358085-5 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-358085-5 (ISBN)
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for SSATB and piano
This work sets three texts from 'Poem of the North', a collaboration celebrating 50 years of the Northern Poetry Library. The first movement is flowing and forward moving, while the second is simple and folk-like. The final movement's rhythmic drive evokes an exciting train journey through a fast-changing landscape.
for SSATB and piano
Songs of the North sets three texts from 'Poem of the North', a poetic collaboration celebrating 50 years of the Northern Poetry Library. As part of the project, poems were written with a new '821' form: a structure characterized by 11-line, three-stanza poems that employ the 'volta' concept to subtly interconnect series of stanzas. The work's celebration of Northern English writing begins with 'North', a flowing and forward-moving movement that reflects the poet's consideration of north as 'a progressive direction'. The second movement, 'Notes made on Hadrian's Wall', has a folk-like simplicity and integrates the folk song 'Waters of Tyne' into the texture. Additionally, the poem's references to the Sycamore Gap tree are given greater poignance following its illegal felling in 2023. The final movement, 'Journey North', has a rhythmic drive that evokes an exciting train journey through a fast-changing landscape.
This work sets three texts from 'Poem of the North', a collaboration celebrating 50 years of the Northern Poetry Library. The first movement is flowing and forward moving, while the second is simple and folk-like. The final movement's rhythmic drive evokes an exciting train journey through a fast-changing landscape.
for SSATB and piano
Songs of the North sets three texts from 'Poem of the North', a poetic collaboration celebrating 50 years of the Northern Poetry Library. As part of the project, poems were written with a new '821' form: a structure characterized by 11-line, three-stanza poems that employ the 'volta' concept to subtly interconnect series of stanzas. The work's celebration of Northern English writing begins with 'North', a flowing and forward-moving movement that reflects the poet's consideration of north as 'a progressive direction'. The second movement, 'Notes made on Hadrian's Wall', has a folk-like simplicity and integrates the folk song 'Waters of Tyne' into the texture. Additionally, the poem's references to the Sycamore Gap tree are given greater poignance following its illegal felling in 2023. The final movement, 'Journey North', has a rhythmic drive that evokes an exciting train journey through a fast-changing landscape.
Cecilia McDowall has been described by the International Record Review as having a 'communicative gift that is very rare in modern music.' An award-winning composer, McDowall is often inspired by extra-musical influences, and her choral writing combines rhythmic vitality with expressive lyricism. Her music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading choirs, among them the BBC Singers, The Sixteen, and Oxford and Cambridge choirs and is regularly programmed at prestigious festivals in Britain and abroad. In 2017 McDowall was selected for an Honorary Fellow award by the Royal School of Church Music.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.2.2026 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 297 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-358085-3 / 0193580853 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-358085-5 / 9780193580855 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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