Gather Ye Rosebuds
This short SSA piece was written for the University of Michigan Women’s Glee Club. It is an unaccompanied 3-part setting of the poem by the English poet, Robert Herrick. Jaclyn Johnson, Interim Director of the Glee Club said, “This is a WONDERFUL piece! I love that you have composed in an older polyphonic style to match the poetry.”
It is my intention to set a couple more of Herrick’s verses for similar forces to complement ‘Gather Ye Rosebuds’.
The recording was made in November 3013 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Descriptive Tags: | Nature, Poetry, Project : Encore, Time |
Difficulty: | Advanced Student, Advanced |
Voicing: | SSA |
Instrumentation: | A Cappella |
Duration: | 1-5 Minutes |
Language: | English |
Sacred or Secular: | Secular |
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