A Hoy Calendar
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SATB Choir and Piano

SKU: BT.MUSCH61203

Composed by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Classical. Choral Score. Composed 1999. 16 pages. Chester Music #MUSCH61203. Published by Chester Music (BT.MUSCH61203).

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir, using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar.

A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear, simple images George MackayBrown'spoem turns through the months of Orkney life, and as it turns so the modal music, for a modestly able school or amateur choir, moves it on its way, with images of matching lucidity.
Vocal score with piano accompanimentforrehearsal purposes.