"The Phoenix and the Turtle - Choral Score" Sheet Music by Huw Watkins

$6.99 
Scored For: Mixed Choir (satb), Minimum 12 Voices
Composers: Huw Watkins
Pages: 16
This product does NOT support transposition or digital playback
SKU: 489687
Publisher: Schott Music Ltd., London
Grade Level: advanced - difficult What's this?
Series: Choral Music of Our Time
Publisher ID: Q41780

The Phoenix and the Turtle sets a poem by Shakespeare published 1601 that uses the metaphor of a bird's funeral to describe the death of an idealistic love. Watkins spins out a jazzy melody surrounded by close harmonies using the text to create a lively, rhythmic opening. The textures and rhythms settle into homophonic movement as the chords open ever outward in a slower middle section, before resolving onto a solemn ending in unison.