(Level IV) Annie Laurie – Paying homage to the beautiful Annie Laurie
and Scotland, this arrangement evokes a bucolic landscape while featuring the
baritone, soprano and tenor solos. Somewhat similar to Danny Boy, the
arrangement starts off with the background lines weaving a little brook. In the
second verse, different parts have some counter-lines that are their
"solo" moments to be brought out. The song builds to its climax at
measures 60 - 62, followed by a reflective moment of silence and the ending
reminiscent of the intro. Written for Vox One.
SATTB a cappella.
View all charts by Yumiko Matsuoka
YUMIKO MATSUOKA, originally from Tokyo, Japan, is a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, teaching ear training. She is the founder of Boston-based a cappella quintet Vox One whose albums Vox One (1993), Out There (1995),Chameleon (1997) and Pure Imagination (2005) have won multiple awards from the
Contemporary A Cappella Society of America (CASA). Yumiko’s arrangements and compositions can also be heard on her anthology
To Every Thing There Is A Season (2008), Vox One’s Say You Love Me (2005), and on recordings by other a cappella groups around the globe, as well as TV commercials in Japan.
Yumiko is an active clinician, adjudicator and choral director, working locally, nationally and worldwide.
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