publishing refreshingly original choral music
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Frances Cockburn Frances leads the successful Edinburgh-based a cappella group The Wild Myrtles. From 2000 to 2006, she was the Musical Director of Rudsambee company of singers. She writes and arranges a steady stream of choral music, much of it deeply rooted in the Scots tradition. |
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1001
SATB
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A richly harmonised setting of Robert Burns' famous song about the pain of parting with 'no regrets'. SATB with quartet verse and optional soli.
3m 00s
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Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn. Words: Robert Burns (1759-1796).
Glossary and pronunciation guide included.
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B
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1013
SATB
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*
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'Think them poorest who can be a slave, them richest who dare to be free.' A powerful song of reconciliation from a part of the UK once torn by violence.
2m 40s
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Music: Dick Gaughan, arr. Frances Cockburn. Words: Dick Gaughan (based on tradition).
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B
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1017
SATB
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**
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Poetry sung aloud is the style of this wistful setting, evoking the play of light and shadow both in love and in the world outside.
0m 45s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978).
Pronunciation guide included
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B
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1032
SATB
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*
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A charming lullaby, nuanced by the Shetland dialect, in a format suitable for soloist and backing vocals.
2m 0s
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Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn. Words: Trad. Anon..
Translation included.
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A
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1033
SSAA
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*
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A charming lullaby, nuanced by the Shetland dialect, in a format suitable for two soloists and backing vocals.
2m 0s
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Music: Trad. arr. Frances Cockburn. Words: Trad. Anon..
Translation included.
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A
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1037
SATB
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**
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This is a set consisting of the 3 pieces listed below.
Three poems in Scots vernacular – images of landscape and home life as a setting for love and loss.
5m 00s
Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Marion Angus (1865-1946).
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1021
SATB
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*
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This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece.
A strophic setting of a folk-style Scots poem celebrating a quiet and beautiful place in rural Perthshire.
1m 15s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Marion Angus (1865-1946).
Pronunciation guide included
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B
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1029
SATB
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*
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This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece.
Love can be blown away like a flower in the wind, but it still leaves a trace in the heart. Scots poem set in a lilting folk idiom.
1m 15s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Marion Angus (1865-1946).
Pronunciation guide included
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B
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1009
SATB
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**
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This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece.
'I wad hae gi'en him my lips to kiss, had I been his...' A song of regret for lost chances, written in a lilting folk style. A strong alto melody can be featured as the upper line, or accompanied by a soprano descant.
2m 40s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Marion Angus (1865-1946).
Pronunciation guide included
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B
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2014
SATB
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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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2020
SATB with three part women's and men's verses
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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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2031
SATB
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**
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(Words in Finnish). A charming traditional Finnish song.
1m 30s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Trad. Finnish.
full pronunciation guide included
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B
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3002
SATB
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**
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A quiet, simple and beautiful original setting of Yeats' wonderful love poem. Music by Frances Cockburn.
2m 20s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: W.B.Yeats.
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B
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3020
SATB
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**
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'I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow...' A positive and uplifting celebration of the human spirit that will never die. Words anon. music: Frances Cockburn.
1m 00s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: Anon..
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A
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4059
SSAA
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Close harmonies and a lilting meter distinguish this strophic setting of the lovely medieval English hymn to Mary.
2m 00s
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Music: Frances Cockburn. Words: mediaeval English anon..
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B
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