By:

• John Ritchie

Duration:

10' 00"

Contents:

1. Queene and Huntress 2. So sweet is she 3. Make room for the bouncing belly 4. Slow,slow, fresh fount 5. Men's Shadows

Samples

	Recording (336k)	0:16 - 0:59
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Availability

• This work has 2 scores and 2 recordings

Programme Note

This cycle for unaccompanied women’s chorus in five short movements sets various Ben Jonson lyrics including So Sweet is She and Men’s Shadows.

Text Note:

Five settings of poems by Ben Jonson

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Performance History

	23 Jun 2009	Performed by New Zealand National Youth Choir (now Tower New Zealand Youth Choir) and conducted by Karen Grylls, 1998. The recording was broadcast on ‘Light on New Zealand Composers’ by Eva Light at 3mbs Melbourne, Australia