Thea Musgrave

A work for Soprano, Woodwind, 2 Horns and Strings. Duration: circa 15 minutes Programme Note: ''This work was commissioned as a possible companion piece to Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate and the decisio...

Commissioned by the Scottish Ensemble first performed on 15th December 2008 at Queen's Cross Church, Aberdeen. Programme note ''This short work is about conflict - expressed here by the clash of oppo...

Song Of The Burn is a 'cantata for a summer's day' written in 1954 by Thea Musgrave for SATB voices, with a Piano accompaniment supplied for rehearsal. Based on a text by Maurice Lindsay.

Text by Robert Herrick 1591-1674

Poems by Hart Crane from White Buildings, set by Thea Musgrave for womens' voices, piano and percussion. Black Tambourine was commissioned by the Musart Singers, who gave the first performance at the...

For Solo Piano. Written in 2009.

Hear The Voice Of The Bard was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge, and first performed on Christmas Eve 2013 at A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge,...

A Song For Christmas was written in 1958. It is a setting of a 15th century Scottish poem, sometimes attributed to William Dunbar, scored for Soprano or Tenor solo with Piano accompaniment. It wascomm...

Written for chamber orchestra and first performed by the BBC Welsh Orchestra in October 1969.

This work is projected as a ballet for solo male dancer, but it can also be presented dramatically in concert performance. Orfeo I was commissioned by the BBC Transcription Service for James Galway an...

This Soliloquy: The tape and solo guitar integrated compositionally. This, together with the fact that source material for the part (though subsequently treated electronically) is made entirely from t...

This orchestral version of Piccolo Play was commissioned by the National Flute Association in celebration of its 50th Anniversary, with generous help from James Keefe and Janet Kinmonth of Keefe Picco...

Largo, In Homage to B. A. C. H. was commissioned by the Carmel Bach Festival 2013, and Music Director Paul Goodwin to whom the work is dedicated. COMPOSER NOTE: My very first idea was to use the BACH...

A complex and challenging work commissioned by the International Horn Society.