Douglas Cook

Douglas Cook
Douglas Cook has written and arranged music all his working life, firstly as a teacher and director of music in secondary schools in the south of England, and now in busy retirement in the Lake District. Singing has always been important too: he trained as a Quirister at Winchester College and currently directs a small chamber choir, Nova Cantica. He has a particular interest in medieval and Renaissance music.

Number, voicing	Title, complexity	Description, links	Price Band
1019 SATB with S and T soli	Balulalow ***	'I come from hevin heich to tell the best nowells that e'er befell.' A plangent and flowing arrangement of a 16th century Scottish lullaby to the Christ child. Text based on a Scots translation of Martin Luther's hymn Vom Himmel Hoch. 3m 40s see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: 16th C. anon. arr. Douglas Cook. Words: Anon. (16th century). Glossary and pronunciation guide included.	C
2008 SATB	Searching for lambs **	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 see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Traditional English.	B
2009 SATB	The seeds of love **	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 see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Trad. Anon..	B
2011 SATB	Whistle, daughter, whistle **	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 see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Trad. Anon..	B
2029 SSA	Riddle song **	A setting for SSA of one of the oldest known English riddles by Cumbrian composer Douglas Cook. 1m 40s see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon..	B
2030 SSA	What shall we do with a drunken sailor? ***	A lively arrangement for SSA voices of the toe-tapping shanty. 1m 30s see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon..	C
4011-4 SATB	A sequence of carols ***	This is a set consisting of the 4 pieces listed below. Four settings of medieval English texts, mixing old and new idioms. A rousing modal opening number is followed by a melting and beautiful lullaby, a delicate and innocent version of the famous poem I sing of a maiden that is makeless (using treble voices only), and a fast and exciting In excelsis gloria. See individual titles for details. 5m 30s Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon..	E
4011 SATB	A boy was born ***	This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece. 1m 00s see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon. (trans. Dearmer).	A
4012 SATB	The virgin's cradle hymn ***	This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece. 1m 15s see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon.. Translation and pronunciation guide included.	A
4013 SAA	I sing of a maiden ***	This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece. 1m 30s see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: mediaeval English anon.. Glossary and pronunciation guide included	B
4014 SATB	In excelsis gloria ***	This is included in the set listed above. You can also buy it as an individual piece. 1m 30s see it • hear a MIDI rendering • Music: Douglas Cook. Words: Anon.. Pronunciation guide included.	B