The White Field

The White Field

Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS IN-PRINT TITLES
Composer Bob Chilcott
Voice/Instrument SATB (Double Choir)
Difficulty Unrated

The White Field
By Bob Chilcott

for SATB double choir, children's choir, and piano
Setting a text by Charles Bennett, The White Field presents a dreamlike scene in which blackbirds plant songs in the cold earth and await the growth of their music. Chilcott's melodies echo through the voices, before a climactic tutti central section giving full voice to the idea of renewal and hope in the depth of winter. A wistful coda completes the reverie as the blackbirds settle to await the return of the sun. The piano part provides harmonic support and rhythmic energy to the voice parts with chordal and semiquaver figurations throughout the work. The White Field was commissioned by the Barbican Centre for London Symphony Chorus and BBC Symphony Chorus for Sound Unbound, November 2015.

 

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