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Design from first performance by Barrington Barber
MUSIC FOR THE THEATRE
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Instrumental
For chamber orchestra: fl,cl,fg,hn,tr,vln,vla,vc, drum
Overture
Intermezzo
Charm
Sarabande ‘such as charmeth sleep’
Intermezzo 2
Bergomask dance
Songs
For upper voices (SSA) with piano or chamber orchestra
You spotted snakes (Sound clip available here)
On the ground Sleep sound
Fairy King, attend and mark
Design from first performance by Barrington Barber
The fairies’ blessing ‘Through the house with glimmering light’
As you like it
Instrumental
For 2 flutes, violin, cello, harpsichord/piano
Dance – True delights
Pages’ Dance
Pavane
Songs
What shall he have that killed the deer?
The Masque of Hymen (Then is there mirth in heaven)
Hymn (Wedding is great Juno’s crown)
It was a lover and his lass
It was a lover and his lass (second setting)
Under the greenwood tree
Under the greenwood tree (second setting)
Round in up to four parts, unaccompanied
Solo soprano, 2 flutes, harpsichord, cello
SSA unaccompanied
Unison or SA voices, 2 flutes, harpsichord
SSA unaccompanied
Unison voices, 2 flutes, cello, harpsichord
SSA unaccompanied
The Merchant of Venice
Score in preparation
The Tempest (first setting)
Instrumental
For two flutes (one doubling piccolo), two clarinets and bass clarinet
Sleep, the comforter
The king’s dream
The king’s nightmare
Iris, the windswift
Catch
Water and earth
Solemn air (soundclip available here)
Songs
For SA voices unaccompanied
Come unto these yellow sands
Full fathom five
While you here do snoring lie
Catch
Juno’s song
Ceres’s song
Where the bee sucks
The Tempest (second setting)
Instrumental
For piano quartet (piano, vln, vla, vc)
Overture – the storm begins
The storm ends
Treachery
Solemn and strange
Some heavenly music
Songs
For SA voices and piano quartet (or piano alone)
Come unto these yellow sands
Full fathom five
While you here do snoring lie
Catch
Marriage blessing
Where the bee sucks
Twelfth Night
Instrumental
For two flutes and string quartet
Overture – Orsino
Postlude to Act 2 – Cakes and ale
Prelude to Act 3 – Feste’s Jig
Songs
For two-part upper voices, flute and string quartet, or with piano alone
Come away, death
I am gone, sir
O mistress mine
When that I was and a little tiny boy
The Quest of the Holy Grail
A ballad opera to words by William Wray.
Vocal score: twelve vocal numbers for upper voices and piano, and four dances.
Spoken script available separately. Orchestral parts in preparation. Vocal numbers:
- The ballad of King Parlan
- The maiden’s song Video clip available here
- Does the wind blow
- The blessing of the ship
- Credo
- The dappled doe
- Lament for the maiden
- Launcelot’s prayer
- Chorus of the Grail chamber
- The felling of Launcelot
- The vision of Christ
- Song of emptiness