Songs of Fleeting Love

Instrumentation: SATB, SSAA, TTBB
Playing time: 7'
Copyright 2006
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“Songs of Fleeting Love” were composed for Robert Peterson and the Macalester College Concert Choir.  Each song is a setting of a “song” from various Shakespeare plays.  Three of the songs are for SATB choir:  1. It was a Lover and His Lass; 3. Take, O Take Those Lips Away; 5. O Mistress Mine.  Song #2, Under the Greenwood Tree is for SSAA.  Song #4, Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More! is for TTBB.  The recording includes only the SATB songs.