In Winter's House (SATBarB)

Joanna Joanna Marsh Marsh In Winter’s Missa House Brevis: Christina of Markyate mixed voices unaccompanied (SATBarB) SATB unaccompanied

Joanna Marsh In Winter’s House (2019 – revised January 2023)

mixed voices unaccompanied (SATBarB) Duration c.5’

In Winter’s House was commissioned by Tenebrae and first performed by the choir at their concert at the Wigmore Hall on 1st December 2019.

© 2019 Joanna Marsh www.joannamarsh.co.uk

In Winter’s House Poem by Jane Draycott

In winter's house there's a room that's pale and still as mist in a field while outside in the street every gate's shut firm, every face as cold as steel.

In winter's house there's a bed that is spread with frost and feathers, that gleams in the half-light like rain in a disused yard or a pearl in a choked-up stream.

In winter's house there's a child asleep in a dream of light that grows out of the dark, a flame you can hold in your hand like a flower or a torch on the street.

In winter's house there's a tale that's told of a great chandelier in a garden, of fire that catches and travels for miles, of all gates and windows wide open.

In winter's house there's a flame being dreamt by a child in the night, in the small quiet house at the turn in the lane where the darkness gives way to light.

In Winter’s House Joanna Marsh

Jane Draycott

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mf

o

-

mf





win - dows

  o

  





f

pen,

all

gates



  









are



win - dows.





pen,

pen,



gates



 -



f

pen,







win - dows

    o

f

pen,

mf

are

win - dows



tra - vels



win - dows





tra - vels

and



 

that

tra - vels,

gates

gates



mf



all

all

-



   





 



vels,

mp cresc.

mp cresc.

and win- dows are

         all

that

 -



    

gates

all

tra - vels,

mf

  

 

  

mf







and

win - dows

f





 are



win - dows



f

 gates



 





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mf

o



-

pen

f





wide.









Slightly slower

 

,

 

, mp



 p still





In

mf

    o - pen mf

  o





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 o

-

    72











 





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,

p still



 





f

 



is

 

there

,

-

ter’s

house





In

win





In

win



a

flame

a

there

is

   



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win





  there

mp

is



house



p still





 





p still



 

 is





-

-

p still

  

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ter’s

-





-

ter’s





-

ter’s

 



 

 

 



 

mp

   

a

flame

be - ing





  

is

a

flame



  

 flame



 

  be - ing

mp



house







     house

 





wide.

There

  

f

 

 

wide.

pen



,   

 



wide.

pen

mf



f



a

mp

mp

flame

be - ing



dreamt

dreamt





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dreamt



    

 

  dreamt





by

a

mf

mp

 

 

  

mf

  

child,

child,

a

in the

night,

the

mf

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a



    a

night,

   



   

by

a



  child

night,

child

mp

 

the



mf



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child

mf

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night,



mf

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

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child,

Tempo primo

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small

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the





house

  

at the

turn

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lane

p

p

   

a

child,

in the



  

small

qui - et

   

in





the small

   

 qui

 -

et

p

in the

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small

 

the

qui

-



et

      

lane,

in the

    



turn in

lane,

the



 

at the

 

qui - et house, the house

p

    



house

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in the small



mf

a

by

    night,  

night,

child,



    



 



    

    

  

night,

  



in the

mp

child,

    



 

a

in the

  

mf

child

mf

by

p

 

mp

child,



poco rit.

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  

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by

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

mf

turn in





house

turn

 house

the

the



 

in the



 turn www. joannamarsh.co.uk

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   90

mf



  



 



where

 



  



where

the

    lane



  

mf



where

the

lane

  

  

lane,

in the

lane

where,



 





  

dark

mf



  97

in the

 





gives

  

way,



dark







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

ness,

dark





ness,

dark











-

p



 

     

ness





ness





-

ness



dark





-



where



-

 -

ness





ness

mf



 way,

pp





gives

  gives







gives

way,





way





 

way

pp

 

gives



-

-





  

pp



-





dark

gives

mp



dark

 -

lane





-

  

mf











way

to

light.

pp

mf

 to







way



 to



way

pp



  

 to

 

light.

mf

 

light.

mf

 

light.

mf





 to

 

light.

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