The White Field: Vocal score - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0193410842 ISBN 13: 9780193410848

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2015

Synopsis

for SATB double choir, children's choir, and piano
Setting a text by Charles Bennett, The White Field presents a dreamlike scene in which blackbirds plant songs in the cold earth and await the growth of their music. Chilcott's melodies echo through the voices, before a climactic tutti central section giving full voice to the idea of renewal and hope in the depth of winter. A wistful coda completes the reverie as the blackbirds settle to await the return of the sun. The piano part provides harmonic support and rhythmic energy to the voice parts with chordal and semiquaver figurations throughout the work. The White Field was commissioned by the Barbican Centre for London Symphony Chorus and BBC Symphony Chorus for Sound Unbound, November 2015.

About this title

About the Author:

Bob Chilcott has been involved with choral music all his life, first as a Chorister and then a Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge. Later, he sang and composed music for 12 years with The King's Singers. His experiences with that group, his passionate commitment to young and amateur choirs, and his profound belief that music can unite people, have inspired him both to compose full-time and, through proactive workshopping, to promote choral music worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0193410842
• ISBN 13: 9780193410848
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 16