Selected works / Choral
Adam lay ibownden
- Forces
- SA & men, unaccompanied
- Duration
- 30″–1′
- Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Text
- Anonymous, 15th century
- Suited to
- Advent, Christmas
- Difficulty
- Easy for amateur choirs, intentionally so
- First performance
- St Mary's Church, Tenby
- Availability
- Published (Novello)
Written on a train journey as a brief and unsuccessful entry for a carol competition, Adam lay ibownden began life for five voices and was recast for three, the form in which it survives. Novello published the carol in The Novello Book of Short and Easy Anthems (2015).
Perusal scores may be obtained from the publisher.
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