Spring, the sweet spring

A sunny, jolly and slightly silly piece celebrating the Spring, setting the famous poem by Thomas Nashe. There is a suitably daft video of this on YouTube

This is for small Brass group (two cornets and 3 sackbutts) plus choir with audience participation. I was very pleased with the sunny nature of the brass in this piece and the painting of the 

The audience refrain is always preceded by the same cue and for the first few times through there are plenty of spare choir voices to give the audience a helping hand if they need it.

Written 2016

Download the full score and parts

I subsequently made a shortened, re-orchestrated, and re-rendered version below.  This version uses adds strings, percussion and woodwind to the original brass and choir and the sounds are from StaffPad software.