Music In Sleep
Sheet Music

Item Number: 21252991
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Instruments
Piano Accompaniment
Choir
Ensembles
SSA
Women's Choir
3-Part
Genres
20th Century
Formats
Vocal Score
Usages
School and Community
SSA Choir and Piano

SKU: BT.MUSNOV160148

Composed by Harrison Birtwistle. Classical. Choral Score. Novello & Co Ltd. #MUSNOV160148. Published by Novello & Co Ltd. (BT.MUSNOV160148).

Music for Sleep is among the very earliest stage works by Birtwistle, composed when he taught music at schools in Wiltshire and Dorset.The performing notes say that Music for Sleep was designed to be played and sung by children. Choices are offered among wind instruments, but instructions for Percussion instruments are very specific. It is a poetically evocative work in which Birtwistle is already playing with formal structures.The lullabye texts areextremely varied. Cradle Song uses text from the 16th century poet brothers James, John and Robert Wedderburn. Lullabye on a Ground was written by poet A P Graves, father of poet and classicist Robert Graves. Nocturne waswrittenby Wordsworth.