The Gurt Black Dog of Somerset (Oliver Barton)
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- CPDL #6674:
Finale 2004
- Editor: Oliver Barton (added 2004-02-10). Score information: A4, 10 pages Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: 2 versions, for SATB unaccompanied, or SATB & piano
General Information
Title: The Gurt Black Dog of Somerset
Composer: Oliver Barton
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsongs
Language: English
Instruments: piano (optional)
Published:
Description:
The absolutely true tale of a cottager who walks up the Quantock hills (in Somerset, England) only for the mist to come down. A muzzle presses into his hand - "Aha!" he cries, "'Tis my faithful sheepdog Shep come to guide me home." But when he reaches home and opens his cottage door, there is Shep inside. Who then guided him home?
Originally for choir and piano, with interesting effects to convey such things as a phantom dog growing in size and disappearing. The unaccompanied version was made for four solo voices, with the interesting effects realised somewhat differently.