Travelling Tales (2010)
Cantata for SATB, youth choir, piano (or piano duet and percussion). Duration c.18 minutes
Travelling Tales: tales of travel, in our imagination and in reality: mysterious travellers from unknown lands, journeys by train, by sea, and on horse-back, and visions of the future. Combining poems of the past with poems by today’s young people, the music of this accessible cantata is designed to appeal to all choirs and their audiences.
1. Travelling (full)
2. Travel Prayer (full, or Youth Choir)
3. Ozymandias (SATB )
4. The Place that no-one knows (Youth Choir )
5. The tide rises, the tide falls (SATB )
6. Mind the Gap! (full, or Youth Choir)
7. Up-hill (full, or SATB )
8. Finale (full)
The following movements are also available separately – please follow the links:
Travel Prayer (SATB and piano, or unison voices and piano)
The tide rises, the tide falls (SATB and piano)
Mind the Gap! (several different versions)
Scrolling Score (complete) here
Another Recording (omitting movement 3)
To buy Travelling Tales (vocal score, for performance by choirs and piano):
Digital downloads (instant pdfs) worldwide from Sheet Music Direct or Sheet Music Plus (prices vary)
Printed copies (please allow time for printing and delivery) by contacting Colne Edition (£6.95 post free in UK but postage extra elsewhere, 5 copies minimum)
Vocal score also available on hire.
Full score, piano duet part and optional percussion parts (2/3 Timp, Tri, 2WBlocks, Sus Cym, Drum Kit, Glock, Xylo) are available on hire.