Basic Details

Title
Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion (SATB and piano)
Availability
Available
Category
Choral
Instrumentation
(SATB)-pft
Duration
9'
Publisher
Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc.
Premieres
  • 1. Movement: "Follow Your Saint" and "There is a Garden in Her Face": Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, MA, February 24th, 1956 (The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society; G. Wallace Woodsworth, conductor)
  • 2. Movement: "Rose Cheek'd Laura, Come" and "Follow Thy Fair Sun": Plaza Hotel, New York City, NY, December 9th, 1963 (Choral Group of the Oratorio Society of New York; Dr. T. Charles Lee, conductor)
Edition/Catalog #
"Follow your Saint:" HL 00227486; "There is a Garden in her Face:" HL 00228420; "Rose Cheeked Laura, Come:" Rose Cheeked Laura, Come; "Follow thy fair Sun:" HL 00227485
Parts/Movements
  1. Follow Your Saint
  2. There is a Garden in Her Face
  3. Rose Cheek'd Laura, Come
  4. Follow Thy Fair Sun
Version Of
Four Songs to the Poems of Thomas Campion (W129)

Cataloging Information

Copyright
©1956 Southern; ©1984 Virgil Thomson
Year Composed
1955
Year Published
1956
M.S. Location
The Virgil Thomson Papers at Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University
Cardell Number
C24[A-F]
Meckna Number
W84

Additional Info

Notes

Each movement published separately for mixed chorus

Arranged for mixed chorus (SATB), 1967, by Daniel Pinkham

Texts
Thomas Campion (English)
Instrumentation Notes
Also arranged for mixed chorus (SATB), 1967, by Daniel Pinkham
External Links
Follow Your Saint
There is a Gard in Her Face
Rose Cheek'd Laura, Come
Follow Thy Fair Sun
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