CHARLES WOOD

Charles Wood (1866-1926) was born in Vicars’ Hill, Armagh, Ireland. He was a chorister in St. Patrick’s Cathedral and trained at the Cathedral Choir School. He was one of the inaugural class members of the Royal College of Music, studying with Charles Villiers Stanford and Charles Hubert Hastings Parry. He studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and started teaching there. He taught at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, then took a position as Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his compositions for the Church and part-songs.

All are mixed chorus; some contain divisi.

SET	TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
	A land dirge			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	As the moon’s soft splendor		Shelley	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Blow, blow, thou winter wind		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Full fathom five		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	How sweet the moonlight	SATBB	Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Nights of music		Thomas Moore	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Wanderer’s night-song			LISTEN X Stop audio before closing