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Digital Audio Album
Women of Note : A Century of Australian Composers, Volume 5.
Library shelf no. CD 3288 [Available for loan]
Score
Three Night Songs : for a cappella SSAATTBB choir / music by Heather Percy ; text by Christina Rossetti, Emilie Zoey Baker, Phyllis Wheatley, Sara Teasdale and Emma Lazarus.
Library shelf no. 782.55542/PER 3 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Three Night Songs captures images of night from different perspectives through the poetry of past and contemporary female poets. Though not intended as a sacred work, the music possesses a spiritual quality reminding us of the connection that humans have had with the night sky for centuries.
Work Details
Year: 2021
Instrumentation: SSAATTBB a cappella mixed choir, with some additional solo passages.
Duration: 10 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Three Night Songs is harmonically complex, with frequent tonal shifts and dissonant chords.
Contents note: I. Night Song I 'Holy Innocents' text by Christina Rossetti -- II. Night Song II ' Pink Swallows Blue' text by Emile Zoey Baker -- III. Night Song III 'Hymn to the Evening' texts by Christina Rossetti, Sara Teasdale, Emma Lazarus and Phyllis Wheatley.
Written for: Sydney Chamber Choir
Commission note: Commissioned by ABC Classics.
Awards & Prizes
| Year | Award | Placing | Awarded for/to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Art Music Awards: Work of the Year: Choral | Winner | Heather Percy |
Analysis
Resonate article: Creating choral collages: Three Night Songs by Australian Music Centre
Performances of this work
24 May 23: Winter Nights Concert. Featuring Sydney Chamber Choir.
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