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INDEX

A Snowy Day (unison treble choir with piano)
My Labrador Rug  (unison treble choir, optional 2-part, with piano)
Something ... (unison treble choir with piano) 
Three Olde English Rhymes (unison treble choir and piano)
I.  Sing a Song of Sixpence
II.  There Was a Crooked Man
III.  I Saw a Ship a-Sailing
Three (More) Olde English Rhymes (unison treble choir and piano)
I.  Oats and Beans and Barley Grow
II.  A Week of Birthdays
III.  Mary's Lamb
The Green Month  (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)
My Serenade  (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)
That Little Child (unison treble choir with piano)
Little Star (Twinkle, Twinkle)  (unison treble choir and piano)
The Hours (unison treble choir with piano)
Two Pickthall Lyrics  (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)
I.  Golden Dawn
II.  A Frost Song
Evening (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)
Adoration (unison treble choir with piano)
To Quiet Ends (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)
How Look'd She (unison treble choir with piano)

ACCESSIBLE FOR CHILDREN'S CHOIR

A Snowy Day (unison treble choir with piano)   PubLink
Rhythmic Trident Music Publishing, RTCA-023, 2012

This piece is a wonderfully playful presentation of snowflakes in winter. The inventive melodic and rhythmic treatment of the imaginative text, with little chromatic passages and twisty turns, is offset by a floating descending descant line above. It is supported and enhanced by a well-crafted piano accompaniment.

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 My Labrador Rug  (unison treble choir, optional 2-part, with piano)  PubLink
Rhythmic Trident Music Publishing, RTCA-016, 2007

The text to striking piece exquisitely captures the spirit of the Grenfell “Industrial” Mission hooked mats initiative of Newfoundland and Labrador in the early part of the 20th Century, penned in the vivid colours and imagery of the land and sea and painted in simple yet rich harmonic brush strokes.

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Something ... (unison treble choir with piano)   PubLink  SoundCLoud
Alliance Music Publications, AMP-0836, 2010

Written from the perspective of a young child who hears strange sounds in their house at night and tries to convince themselves that they are not afraid. Includes elements of body percussion, sound effects and some chorister interaction with the pianist and audience.

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Three Olde English Rhymes (unison treble choir and piano)   PubLink  
Alliance Music Publications, AMP-1014, 2016

I.  Sing a Song of Sixpence   SoundCloud
II.  There Was a Crooked Man   SoundCloud
III.  I Saw a Ship a-Sailing    SoundCloud

A song-cycle based on familiar English rhymes. These pieces provide performance opportunities to engage in a variety of tonalities, meters, forms and styles. Includes opportunity for speaking soloists and sounds effects.

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Three (More) Olde English Rhymes (unison treble choir and piano)   PubLink  
manuscript, 2023

I.  Oats and Beans and Barley Grow   SoundCloud
II.  A Week of Birthdays   SoundCloud
III.  Mary's Lamb   SoundCloud

A song-cycle based on familiar English rhymes. These pieces provide performance opportunities to engage in a variety of tonalities, meters, forms and styles.  Song I is based upon Copland's Hoedown and III utilizes Franz Liszt's piano reduction of Beethoven's 6th "Pastoral" Symphony as a foundation. Includes opportunity for
some choreography.

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The Green Month  (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)    PubLink
Alliance Music Publications, AMP-1098, 2018

A song for the coming of Spring. Verses 3 and 4 are Marjorie’s own, but verses 1 and 2 have been constructed by SGR in an imitable style and language. A progressive harmonic structure and “colourful” poetry animates the unfurling of Spring.

    Downloadable Colour Chart for Rehearsal Support

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My Serenade  (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)   PubLink   SoundCloud
Alliance Music Publications, AMP-1099, 2018

This piece follows the basic harmonic structure of Franz Schubert’s Ständchen and even incorporates simplified excerpts in the piano bridge. Offers frequent modulations between major and minor tonalities, very much like a simplified Lieder.

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That Little Child (unison treble choir with piano)  PubLink  SoundCloud
Watermark Music Publications, WMP-14002, 2015

Winner of the Amadeus Choir Seasonal Song-Writing Competition 2013 Professional Division,
Unison Accompanied. Great opportunity to sing long, lyrical melodic lines with an accompaniment that alters the style and mood for each verse.  Suited to the Christmas season. Can also be accompanied by a concert harp.

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Little Star (Twinkle, Twinkle) (unison treble choir with piano)
manuscript, 2023

This piece is a set of vocal variations on the well-known melodic adaptation of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
using all 5 verses of the English rhyme by Jane Taylor, built itself upon the 12 piano variations of
W. A Mozart "Ah! Vous dirait-je, maman".

The initial verse may be sung either in French (to the original text and tune) or a Spanish or Latin
translation of the English rhyme and one verse is to be performed with American Sign Language.

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The Hours (unison treble choir with piano)   PubLink
WMP-24001, 2023

This piece is modelled upon Josephine McGill’s setting of Duna (Boosey 4684), lyrics also by Pickthall, in the early 20th Century American Song style.  Josephine and Marjorie were contemporaries of each other  and share the distinction of having both lived abbreviated, musical, and literarily successful lives.

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Two Pickthall Lyrics  (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano) 
manuscript, 2023

I.  Golden Dawn
II.  A Frost Song

A song for the coming of dawn and another for the coming of autumn.

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Evening (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)
manuscript, 2024

A setting with lyrics by Marjorie Pickthall and the Nocturne in Fm, Op. 55, No. 1
by Frédéric Chopin

SUITABLE FOR ADULT CHOIRS

Adoration (unison treble choir with piano)   PubLink
WMP-24002, 2023

Adoration is originally an organ piece by Florence B. Price (the first black American woman to have a major orchestral work premiered in the USA). It really glows with an harmonic language clearly borne of her musical influences.  I have reduced it for piano and extracted/arranged a vocal line emboldened with an original text. 

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To Quiet Ends (unison treble choir, opt. 2 part, with piano)
manuscript, 2024

A setting with lyrics by Marjorie Pickthall (The Tramper's Grave) and the Prelude in D
Op. 23 No. 4 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

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How Look'd She (unison treble choir with piano)
manuscript, 2024

A setting with lyrics by Marjorie Pickthall and Watchman's Song,
from Lyric Pieces, Book I, Op.12 No.3 by Edvard Grieg