Music for solo voice with reconstructed ancient instruments
| Click for more info | Title | Date | Language/Text(s) | Duration circa… | Forces |
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Fantasia on a Hurrian Hymn | 2021 | Hurrian
Text: ‘Hurrian Hymn’ h.6, restoration and transliteration by Jerome S. Colburn |
4′ | Voice, 9-string lyre |
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Flint | 2019 | Old English
Text: a riddle in the Exeter Book, C10th |
3′ | Voice, 6-string lyre |
| Worldstead | 2019 | Old English
Text: a riddle in the Exeter Book, C10th |
2′ | SSA solo voice trio, medieval harp | |
| Cædmon’s Hymn | v. 1, 2017; v. 2, 2019; v. 3, 2021 | Old English
Text: ‘Cædmon’s Hymn’, in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People |
3–4′ | 2 voices, 6-string lyre | |
| Night-bard | 2019 | Old English
Text: a riddle in the Exeter Book, C10th |
2’44” | Voice, 6-string lyre | |
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Brother
(Co-composed with Armand D’Angour) |
2018, revised 2019 | Ancient Greek
Text: Sappho, ‘Brothers’ poem |
4′ | Voice, barbiton lyre |
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12th Pythian Ode
(Co-composed with Barnaby Brown and Armand D’Angour) |
2018 | Ancient Greek
Text: Pindar, 12th Pythian Ode |
6′ | Voice, aulos |
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Ishtar’s Descent | 2012 | Akkadian
Text: from ‘Ishtar’s Descent to the Netherworld’ |
4’35” | Voice, Pharaonic Lyre, Gold Lyre of Ur |
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The Flood
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2012 | Akkadian
Text: from ‘the Epic of Gilgamesh’, XI, Standard Babylonian version (ed. Andrew George) |
5’46” | Voice, Gold Lyre of Ur |
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Dumuzid’s Dream | Sumerian
Text: from ‘Dumuzid’s Dream’ |
4’11” | Voice, Silver Lyre of Ur, Gold Lyre of Ur | |
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Lullaby | 2012 | Sumerian
Text: from ‘Lullaby for a son of Shulgi‘ (Shulgi N) |
5’35” | Voice, Pharaonic Lyre |