SKU: A0.890649

A perfect piece for an aspiring vocal soloist!  Text from the well known poetry of Robert Louise Stevenson. My Shadow features word painting in the vocal and accompaniment parts which highlight the text (jumping in bed, sun rising, etc).  The final section, in 'recitative' style, contrasts with the previous verses and provides textural contrast and the opportunity to 'opera it up' a bit!  The overall mood is playful and innocent.  Suitable for soprano and boy's unchanged voice.  Also excellent as a unison selection for children's choir.

A superior concert, festival and competition selection!

Duration:  2:15
Key: F+
Time Signature:  4/4
Tempo:  Allegretto

composer contact:  www.stellaterhart.com

SKU: A0.819481

SATB unaccompanied | Duration: 2m30 | Difficulty: Moderate (needing good breath support) 

with rehearsal piano.

Texts by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) 

A setting of two separate texts appearing on Stevenson's memorial in St. Giles Cathedral. The first part is flowing, irregular, folk-like; the second a solemn but joyful hymn.  This could be either a concert piece or used in a ceremony of remembrance.  

2019 

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. 
Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. 
Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. 
Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. 
If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, 
that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, 
and in all changes of fortune, 
and down to the gates of death, 
loyal and loving to one another.

Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, prayer, thanksgiving, memorial, funeral, remembrance, folk, anthem.

The youtube link is to a piano version of the second half of this piece beginning: Under the wide and starry sky

SKU: A0.761688

This setting of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, The Wind, from A Child's Garden of Verses, is composed for two-part SA treble chorus with piano accompaniment. The extended tonal harmonies ask students to hear and resolve suspended and non-chord pitches within easily accessible thirds and sixths, while Part I can help develop range for the higher voices.  In terms of text, Stevenson’s poem provides mature lyrics for young musicians as well as an opportunity for cross-discipline literary learning.  A current and respected choral director who reviewed the piece referred to the piano accompaniment as fun to play and varied nicely.  In response to the piece as a whole, she also said, I do think the young choral world can use more challenging pieces..

SKU: A0.952702

Six songs for high voice with piano for five and with flute for one on texts by Robert Louis Stevenson. Includes: 1. The Swing, 2. Where Go the Boats, 3. From a Railway Carriage, 4. My Bed is a Boat, 5. My Shadow (Flute), 6. Requiem. PDF download includes score.