Original compositions for choir or solo voice ensemble
Click here for an explanation of Stef’s choral difficulty levels.
| Click for more info | Title/date | Forces | Duration | Language(s)/text | Difficulty level |
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December: 6am (2021) | Echo song for 2-part choir with optional additional harmonies | 2′ | English
text: Judith Woolf |
1. Very easy |
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The Lyke Wake Dirge (2022) | SSATB | 5′ | English
text: traditional |
3. Medium |
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Flight (2020) | SSAATTBB + two soprano solos | 7′ | Old English
text: Exeter Book, 20th century |
5. Professional |
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Ice (2020) | SSSSAAATTTBBB solo voice ensemble or SSSSAAATTTBBB choir with + tenor & alto solos |
9′ | Old English
text: Exeter Book, 10th century |
5. Professional |
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Fire (2020) | SSAATTBB + tenor solo |
5’30” | Old English
text: Exeter Book, 10th century |
5. Professional |
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Weeping Willow (2020) | Echo song for 2-part choir with optional additional harmonies | 1–2′ | English
text: Stef Conner |
1. Very easy |
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Stella Maris (2019) | SATB | 5′ | Middle English + Latin
text: 13th century |
2–3. Easy–medium |
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Sub tuum praesidium (2017) | SATB | 4′ | Latin
text: 11th century |
3. Medium |
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Beneath Thy Protection (2017) | SAABar | 3′ | English
text: based on Sub tuum praesidium |
1. Very easy |
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Like as the Waves (2016) | SSAATB | 4′ | English
text: Shakespeare |
3–4. Medium–advanced |
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O splendidissima gemma (2016) |
SSA + clarinet | 4’30” | Latin
text: Hildegard von Bingen |
3. Medium |
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Sonnet 137 (2016) | SA or TB | 3’30” | English
text: Shakespeare |
3. Medium |
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I Sing of a Mayden (2015) | SSAATTB | 4′ | Middle English
text: anon, 15th century |
4. Advanced |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree (2015) | SSATB | 5′ | English
text: W. B. Yeats |
3. Medium |
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Songs Paint Worlds (2014) | 2 unison choirs + piano + 1–6 optional solos |
4′ | English + Old Englishtext: Stef Conner |
1. Very easy |
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Theme from People Watch: ‘We Find Hope’ (2014) | 2-part choir (SA or TB or ST/AB + optional piano) |
3′ | English
text: Bill Bankes-Jones |
1. Very easy |
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Eala Earendel (Carol of the Star) (2013, revised 2019) | SAATTB + soprano solo | 5′ | Latin + Old English + Englishtext: Exeter Book (Crist 1) + Mod. Eng. trans. by Stef Conner + advent antiphon, O Oriens. |
4. Advanced |
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The Shrines of Waltham (2013) |
SSAATTBB | 10′ | English + Latin
text: Wordsworth |
4. Advanced |
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Walsingham Farewell (2013) | TTB | 3′ | English + Latin
text: anon, 16th–17th century |
3–4. Medium-advanced |
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Circa regna tonat (2013) | SSAATTBB | 3′ | English + Latin
text: Thomas Wyatt |
3–4. Medium-advanced |
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This Scepter’d Isle (2013) | SSAATTB | 5′ | English
text: Shakespeare |
3. Medium |
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Saxon Wassail (2012) | SATB + tenor solo | 4′ | ‘Normanized’ Old Englishtext: Wace, 12th century |
2. Easy |
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Nay Ivy Nay (2012) | SATB | 3′ | Middle English
text: Balliol 354, 15th century |
2. Easy |
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Synge Nouwell (2012) | SATB | 3′ | Latin + Anglo-Norman + Middle English |
2. Easy |
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This Endris Night (2009) | SATB + alto solo or SSAA |
5′ | Middle English | 4. Advanced |
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Some Ill Planet (2008) | SSAATTBB | 8′ | English | 5. Professional |
Folk/traditional song arrangements for choir or solo voice ensemble
This list, which will eventually include links to performance materials, is still in preparation (and it’s a long job!) – if you would like to perform/peruse any of these arrangements, please contact Stef directly.
| More info (coming soon) | Title / Composer | Forces | Duration | Language(s) / text | Difficulty level |
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| Adieu My Native Land | SSA | 4′ | English | Medium | |
| All Things Are Quite Silent | SABar | 3′ | English | Easy | |
| Amazing Grace | SATB | 3′ | English | Easy | |
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Auld Lang Syne | SATB chorus, unison verses | English (Scots dialect) | Very easy | |
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Ballad of King John (The) | SATB | English | Medium | |
| Blow the Wind Southerly | Round | English | Very easy | ||
| Bushes and Briars | SATB | English | Medium | ||
| Come All You Young Ploughboys | SABar | English | Easy | ||
| Death and the Lady | SABar | English | Medium | ||
| Dream Not of Love | SSATB | English | Medium | ||
| Dunstan Lullaby | Round | English | Very easy | ||
| Fathom the Bowl | SABar chorus, unison verses | English | Very easy | ||
| Greensleeves | SABar | English | Easy | ||
| Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire | Unison (optional harmonies) | English | Very easy | ||
| I Gave my Love a Cherry | Round | English | Very easy | ||
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In the Month of January | SATB | 2’30” | English | Easy |
| It Was One Morning in the Spring | SATB | English | Easy | ||
| I Would Give My Love an Apple | SABar | English | Very easy | ||
| Keep the Home Fires Burning
Composer: Ivor Novello |
SABar | English
Words: Lena Guilbert Ford |
Easy | ||
| King Herod and the Cock | SATB | English | Easy | ||
| King Pharim | SATB | English | Easy | ||
| Lakes of Cold Fen (The) | SSA | English | Medium | ||
| Lowlands Away | SATB | English | Easy | ||
| Lyke Wake Dirge | SATB | English (old Yorkshire dialect) | Easy | ||
| Nelson’s Blood | SSAATTB | English | Easy | ||
| Old Ballad | SATB | English | Easy | ||
| Over the Hills and the Mountains | SABar | English | Very easy | ||
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Spider (The) | SATB | English | Easy | |
| Three Ravens (The) | SATB | English | Medium | ||
| Trees They Do Grow High (The) | SATB | English | Easy | ||
| Water is Wide (The) | SATB | English | Easy | ||
| West Sussex Drinking Song | SABar chorus, unison verses | English
Words: Hillaire Belloc |
Very easy | ||
| Windy Old Weather | SATB chorus, unison verses | English | Very easy | ||
| What’s the Life of a Man? | SSA | English | Easy | ||
| Woodman Spare that Tree | SATB | English | Easy |