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ReferenceBBM/chorale_after_an_old_french_carol

Title

Chorale after an old French carol

Subtitle / Other TitleFor unaccompanied chorus (SSAATTBB)

Date15 Nov 1944

DescriptionThis work was written along with A shepherd's carol for a BBC feature programme, 'Poet's Christmas', produced by Edward Sackville-West. The chorus is one of the two portions of the 'Christmas oratorio' by W.H. Auden (the complete text of which was later published as For the time being) set by Britten. It was withdrawn by the composer after the first performance and not performed again until 1961.
The tune, entitled 'Romancero' in Tiersot's Mélodies popularies des provinces de France, appears in The English hymnal as 'Picardy'.

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