Sleep Softly Now

Vocal score
ISBN: 978-0-19-355116-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Sonstiges, Englisch, 8 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

for SATB unaccompanied
This beautiful setting of a medieval English text is simple yet effective, written in Assersohn's clear and approachable style. With tender 'lullay, lullow's, lilting phrases, and gentle modal inflections, this hushed lullaby paints a serene picture of the baby Jesus at rest.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Assersohn, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Vokalmusik, Chormusik

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Assersohn

Ian Assersohn is a British composer, arranger, workshop leader, and choral director whose works have been widely performed both in the UK and abroad. His music, which has won a number of international awards, is prized by performers and audiences for its accessible style, appealing melodic and harmonic invention, and sensitive word-setting. Among his large-scale works are Dies Irae, a cantata of remembrance for three choirs, soloists, and orchestra; The Pied Piper of Hamelin,
an entertainment for adult and children's choirs; Air and Angels for baritone solo, choir, brass quintet, timpani, and piano; and Ionian Mass, a secular work for mixed choir and piano. He has also written a wide variety of smaller-scale original works and arrangements for choirs of all types. His music appears in a
number of anthologies including The Oxford Book Of Easy Flexible Anthems and The Oxford Book of Flexible Choral Songs.