As The Mirk Night (2021)
Four settings of Robert Burns
1. Green Grow the Rashes, O!
2. Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes
3. O May, Thy Morn Was Ne’er Sae Sweet
4. Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonnie Doon
SATB
Duration:
14′
First performance (‘Green Grow the Rashes, O!’):
26 May 2017
University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, Paul Mealor, King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen, UK
Score
Programme note
As The Mirk Night is a set of four relatively simple arrangements of these beautiful Burns songs for choir. I have tried to keep as close to the originals as possible with the odd change of texture and harmony here and there adding a twenty-first century gloss to the piece. They form part of a wider concern in my work that involves engaging with Scottish culture and history.
PAC
