Looked Down Where He Lay (Dec. 2014)
for string quintet and piano.
Based on the traditional Normandy tune to 'Away in a Manger', this piece employs the original harmony and melody greatly slowed down and with octave displacement. The harmony of the original is displaced over the range of the piano whilst the melody maintains a single octave. The score is in free time with all musicians reading from the full score.
'Looked down where he lay' is the second installment of a 24-year project to make a musical Advent calendar. Each year in the days leading up to Christmas, I write a piano solo based on a Christmas carol.
1) Long Ago - an improvisation (2015)
2) Look down where he lay....a lullaby (2014)
3) Truth from above (2015)
4) Heavenly Peace (2016)
5) ...highest heav'n adored (2017)
6) from angels bending near the earth (2018)
Based on the traditional Normandy tune to 'Away in a Manger', this piece employs the original harmony and melody greatly slowed down and with octave displacement. The harmony of the original is displaced over the range of the piano whilst the melody maintains a single octave. The score is in free time with all musicians reading from the full score.
'Looked down where he lay' is the second installment of a 24-year project to make a musical Advent calendar. Each year in the days leading up to Christmas, I write a piano solo based on a Christmas carol.
1) Long Ago - an improvisation (2015)
2) Look down where he lay....a lullaby (2014)
3) Truth from above (2015)
4) Heavenly Peace (2016)
5) ...highest heav'n adored (2017)
6) from angels bending near the earth (2018)