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Guy Bunce - Composer

Balulalow (2007/2008)

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Commissioned by Royal Holloway Chapel Choir (Conductor Rupert Gough) in 2007.

Scored for SATB & Organ.

A version for SSAA and String Quartet is also available (2008)


Published by Hayo Music.

The text   was taken from a poem by James, John, & Robert Wedderburn (c1567). The word Balulalow is in fact old Scottish for lullaby: 

Oh my dear   heart young Jesus sweet,
  Prepare thy cradle in my spirit,  
And I shall rock   thee to my heart
  And never more from thee depart.


And I shall praise thee ever more
  With songs sweet unto thy glory;
The knees of my heart shall I bow,
  And sing that right Balulalow!
Guy Bunce 2019


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