Peat Brown Hours
Joint Winner of the National Youth Choir of Australia 2020 Ralph Morton Memorial Composition Competition
The gossip of grasses, the winnowing winds, the drip and the squelch of wet leavings.... and you, listening to all that muted music, stilled in the hold of roots.
Slow aleatoric passages and soundscapes contrast with joyful dance-like melodies, bringing to life Maria Wallace's wonderful poem "The Meenybradden Bog Woman"
SATBdiv unaccompanied.
The gossip of grasses, the winnowing winds, the drip and the squelch of wet leavings.... and you, listening to all that muted music, stilled in the hold of roots.
Slow aleatoric passages and soundscapes contrast with joyful dance-like melodies, bringing to life Maria Wallace's wonderful poem "The Meenybradden Bog Woman"
SATBdiv unaccompanied.