Music for the Theatre

Design from first performance by Barrington Barber

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

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

Blow, blow thou winter wind
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)
SA voices, 2 flutes, harpsichord
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:

  1. The ballad of King Parlan
  2. The maiden’s song     Video clip available here
  3. Does the wind blow
  4. The blessing of the ship
  5. Credo
  6. The dappled doe
  7. Lament for the maiden
  8. Launcelot’s prayer
  9. Chorus of the Grail chamber
  10. The felling of Launcelot
  11. The vision of Christ
  12. Song of emptiness