Poems of Love and War

Howard Skempton (composer)

Vocal score edition

Printed Music (06 May 2020)

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Publisher's Synopsis

for SATB unaccompanied Poems of Love and War sets a sequence of nine poems from 'Viking Poetry of Love and War' by Judith Jesch. The war poems are formal and celebratory, making vivid use of figures of speech known as 'kennings', while the love poems are more direct, and sometimes playful. Skempton's imaginative settings bring these striking texts to life, artfully using changing metres to evoke the sound of spoken word.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780193533547
Publisher:	OUP OXFORD
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	06 May 2020
Edition:	Vocal score edition
Language:	English
Number of pages:	16
Weight:	48g
Height:	279mm
Width:	215mm
Spine width:	2mm