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2020
SATB
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A warmly harmonised setting of trad. Manx words, featuring three-part female and male verses coming together in a rich SATB finish.
2m 30s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Anon..
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B
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2001
SATB
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*
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An ideal concert finisher or encore, featuring the classic Irish mix of tears and beers, pleasingly set by Peter Hill. 'So fill to me the parting glass; goodnight, and joy be with you all..' SATB unacc.
2m 00s
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Music: Peter Hill. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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4058
TTB
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**
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Traditional Welsh plygain carol for male voices.
2m 00s
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Music: Trad. Welsh, transcribed (with permission) by Sheena Phillips. Words: English by Sheena Phillips, loosely based on the original Welsh.
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B
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2028
SATB
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A warmly harmonised SATB arrangement of the well known traditional song.
3m 00s
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Music: Richard John (arr.). Words: Trad. Anon..
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C
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4057
TBB
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Traditional Welsh plygain carol for male voices.
3m 00s
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Music: Trad. Welsh melody, arranged by Sheena Phillips. Words: English by K.E.Roberts (1877-1962), loosely based on the original Welsh.
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B
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2019
SATB
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(Words in Croatian). 'If I had wings like a bird, I would fly to you every night my dove'...An intense, heartfelt song about being separated from loved ones. Trad. Croatian song arr. by Sheena Phillips.
2m 30s
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Music: Sheena Phillips. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2014
SATB
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*
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'She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree...'. A beautiful song of love and regret. W B Yeats wrote the words, apparently based on fragments that he remembered after hearing an old woman singing it. Traditional Irish tune.
2m 00s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: W.B.Yeats.
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B
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2003
SATB
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(Words in French). 'Salut a la compagnie de cette maison!' A traditional French new year song that would have been sung around all the houses in the area, spliced with a jaunty original dance tune.
1m 45s
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Music: Peter Hill. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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5026
SATB
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A well known Jewish song about how good it is to live in harmony, based on words from Psalm 133, in a simple but effective arrangement by Sheena Phillips. Words in Hebrew and in English translation.
1m 30s
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Music: Sheena Phillips. Words: from Psalm 133.
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A
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2015-7
3 or 4 part equal or mixed voices
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This is a set consisting of the 3 pieces listed below.
In November 1832, Jane Chattock opened a small music manuscript book and wrote her name on the flyleaf. She then copied a collection of favourite rounds into it, and got her friends to add more in their own hand. We know nothing more of Jane, but her book came to light in an Edinburgh second-hand book shop in 1982 and now lets us see what amused a little group of social singers in the years around the accession of Queen Victoria.
6m 15s
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Music: Sheena Phillips (ed.). Words: Anon..
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C
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2015
3 or 4 part equal or mixed voices
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This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece.
2m 30s (if continued until last part to enter has sung whole piece through)
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Music: Sheena Phillips (ed.). Words: Anon..
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A
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2016
3 or 4 part equal or mixed voices
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This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece.
1m 00s (if stopped when the first part has sung through twice)
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Music: Sheena Phillips (ed.). Words: Anon..
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A
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2017
3 or 4 part equal or mixed voices
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This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece.
1m 25s (if sung simply until all parts are in and the punchline delivered)
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Music: Sheena Phillips (ed.). Words: Anon..
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A
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4021
SATB recorder & drum
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A rousing pipe and drum carol, as sung traditionally in France on Christmas Eve, arranged with panache in a fresh English translation. Separate parts available for choir, recorder and drum.
1m 30s
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Music: Sheena Phillips (arr.). Words: Trad. French.
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C
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2005
SATB
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New Year carol that recounts the English and Welsh tradition of hunting of a wren (the 'king') and processing from door to door in greeting.
1m 30s
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Music: Paul Carline. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2006
SATB
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(Words in Maori) 'Pokarekare ana...' - 'The waters of Waiapu are agitated. Cross over, girl, and they will be calm.' A beautiful lilting setting of an early 20th c. Maori love song.
2m 00s
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Music: Sheena Phillips (arr.). Words: Paraire Tomoana.
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B
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2007
SATB
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(Words in English) Why spend your leisure bereft of pleasure...you'll take no money within the grave! A rousing concert finisher. Song originally written in Irish Gaelic by Riocard Bairéid alias Richard Barrett, an 18th-century schoolmaster from Co. Mayo in the west of Ireland.
2m 15s
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Music: Peter Hill. Words: R Bairéid, trans. D O'Sullivan.
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B
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2029
SSA
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A setting for SSA of one of the oldest known English riddles by Cumbrian composer Douglas Cook.
1m 40s
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Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon..
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B
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2025
SSATB
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An intriguing fugal treatment of the well known English folk song. SSATB unaccompanied.
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Music: Paul Ayres. Words: Trad. Anon..
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C
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2008
SATB
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A youth - with marriage on his mind - waylays a young girl as she goes to feed her fathers lambs. Traditional English spring song.
2m 00s
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Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2027
SATB
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A most beautiful Irish folk song, rewritten by collector Padraic Colum, and offered here in a lilting a cappella arrangement.
3m 00s
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Music: Geoffrey Dale. Words: Padraic Colum.
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C
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2024
TTBB
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Traditional Irish song lamenting the plight of Fionnuala, who has been turned into a swan by her stepmother Aiofe. Arranged for male voices.
2m 00s
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Music: Mark Burstow . Words: Thomas Moore.
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A
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2021
SATB
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(Words in French dialect). A simple and gently flowing lullaby from the Massif Central region of France. Suitable for small chamber choir or larger ensemble.
2m 00s
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Music: Sheena Phillips. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2010
SATB
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Young Sovay decides one day to test her true love's mettle. She dresses up as a highwayman and lies in wait for him, pistol in hand. Is he man enough to pass the test...? Trad. words and music in a fast-paced and jaunty arrangement, with the Altos having the tune.
2m 20s
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Music: Peter Hill. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2031
SATB
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(Words in Finnish). A charming traditional Finnish song.
1m 30s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Trad. Finnish.
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B
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2004
SATB
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A grim, sturdy, traditional song from grim, sturdy Yorkshire, England; where until relatively recently the coffin containing the departed was carried over the moors with stops at places of significance.
3m 00s
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Music: Peter Hill & Sheena Phillips. Words: Trad. Anon..
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C
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2009
SATB
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A woman dwells on the memory of a past love and just at the moment doesn't want a new love, that's not to say she would rule it out for ever though! Traditional English song.
1m 30s
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Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2022
SATB
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'The water is wide, I cannot get o'er, and neither have I wings to fly. Give me a boat that will carry two, And both shall row, my love and I'. An SATB arrangement (with optional soprano soli) of this popular traditional English song.
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Music: Sheena Phillips. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2023
SATB
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(Words in Welsh). 'Beauty will not last; but faithful love endures like steel, so long as two remain'. Trad. Welsh love song with a nice jolly tune.
2m 15s
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Music: Peter Hill. Words: Trad. Anon..
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3017
SATB
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(Words in Swedish). 'Let my shadow disappear into yours. Let me lose myself under the tall trees,'...the magical and sensuous moment of twilight, when everything seems to soften and fade into everything else. Poem by Pär Lagerkvist, set to music by Sheena Phillips.
1m 20s
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Music: Sheena Phillips. Words: Pär Lagerkvist.
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B
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2030
SSA
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A lively arrangement for SSA voices of the toe-tapping shanty.
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Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon..
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C
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2011
SATB
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A young girl is impatient to get married, but her mother thinks she'd be better off with a sheep or a cow! Traditional English song.
1m 45s
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Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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5025
SATB & descant
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A Palestinian prayer for peace. Words in Arabic and in English translation by Fred Kaan. A possible sequence of verses (English, Arabic, with or without descant, etc) is suggested, but feel free to devise your own.
1m 30s
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Music: Sheena Phillips. Words: Trad. Arabic, trans. Fred Kaan.
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2012
SATB
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This is hearty drinking song in celebration of the consoling powers of 'a jug of this'. SATB with tenor/bass duet. Trad. English.
2m 00s
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Music: Peter Hill. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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2013
TB
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As above, TB version. Trad. English.
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Music: Peter Hill. Words: Trad. Anon..
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B
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