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Rejoice
1979

soprano
flute
clarinet
violin
cello

duration 8'

first performance:
Margaret Field with Gemini, cond. Peter Wiegold
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival / November 1979 

awards:
1st Prize Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers Competition

SCORE
This Way From the North 
This Way From the West 
This Way From the South 
This Way From the East   

TEXTS
This Way From the North 
This way from the north,
comes the cloud, very blue.
And inside the cloud
is the blue corn.
How beautiful the cloud
bringing corn of blue colour. 
Traditional (Pueblo) 

Bring cornflag, blue harebells,
Pansies, calaminth,
And the fair haired hyacinth. 
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) from The Shepherds' Calendar 


This Way From the West
This way from the west,
comes the cloud, very yellow.
And inside the cloud
is the yellow corn. 

Bring cornflag, tulips and fair ox-eye,
Goldilocks and goulands,
King cups and sweet sops-in-wine,
Paigles, pansies,
The checked and purple ringed daffodillies,
Bright crown imperial, king's spear
And hollyhocks. How beautiful the cloud
bringing corn of yellow colour. 


This Way From the South 
This way from the south,
comes the cloud, very red. 

Bring cornflag, tulips and Adonis flower,
Pinks and sweet sops-in-wine,
Flower gentle and the fair haired hyacinth,
Bring rich carnations, hollyhocks,
With spikenard weaved
And marjoram between. 

And inside the cloud
is the red corn.
How beautiful the cloud
bringing corn of red colour. 

Bring cornflag and columbine,
Bring rich carnations, flower-de-luces,
Lilies, hollyhocks and soft lady smocks,
With spikenard weaved and meadow's queen. 


This Way From the East
This way from the east,
comes the cloud, very white.
And inside the cloud
is the white corn.
How beautiful the cloud
bringing corn of white colour.