Sun Dogs For Mixed Choir A Cappella

Sun Dogs (Mixed Choir a cappella). By James Macmillan. For Mixed Choir (SATB). BH Large Choral. Book only. 46 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060122217. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Sun-dogs is a setting of a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts. The text is richly allegorical, iconographic with a deep well of symbolism. The metaphors are complex, evoking a range of emotions and images, dark and terrifying one minute, radiant and ecstatic the next. The composer has divided the poem into five movements for large unaccompanied choir.