Its Motion Keeps string quartet The choir echoes this contour

The choir echoes this contour at first and soon splits into swift canonic figures like those found in "This Little Babe" from Britten's Ceremony of Carols

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Its Motion Keeps string quartet The choir echoes this contourIts Motion Keeps for treble chorus (SSSSAA) & solo viola (or solo cello) duration: 7 minutes Commissioned by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Premiered November 2013 at Carnegie Hall, New York City by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, directed by Dianne Berkun Menaker with Caroline Shaw on viola PROGRAM NOTE: Britten's attraction to his native English folk songs and hymns comes through in so much of his music, from his choral and opera works to his chamber music