Orpheus with his lute
by Howard Skempton
4-Part - Sheet Music

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SATB choir, a cappella (SATB) - Easy to Moderately Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193398658

Composed by Howard Skempton. Secular Choral - Mixed Voices. New Horizons. Secular. Vocal score. 4 pages. Duration 3.5'. Oxford University Press #9780193398658. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193398658).

ISBN 9780193398658. 10 x 7 inches.

For SATB unaccompanied This is a simple and elegant miniature in characteristic Skempton style, with graceful choral homophony, seamlessly fluctuating time signatures, and hypnotic, meandering harmonies. The text, by William Shakespeare, is an homage to music.

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