Voice & ensemble

  • version 1: for solo voice and ensemble
    version 2: for choir (SATB div)

    A collage of Portuguese folk tunes that my parents and my grandparents used to sing for me, growing up.

    > perusal score - alto+ensemble

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  • version 1: for Alto and ensemble
    version 2: for Choir (SATB div)

    A collage of Portuguese Christmas melodies. The text was changed by the composer, to open it to a more humanistic approach, not specifically christian.

    Text by anonymous authors and João Pedro Saraiva (adapted by ASD).

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  • version 1: Alto+ensemble
    version 2: Choir (SSAAA / STTBB)

    Arrangement of a Portuguese folk song about love.

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  • version 1: SSATB
    version 2: Alto and Ensemble

    For alto, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello.

Choir

  • version 1: for Alto and ensemble
    version 2: for Choir (SATB div)

    A collage of Portuguese Christmas melodies. The text was changed by the composer, to open it to a more humanistic approach, not specifically christian.

    Text by anonymous authors and João Pedro Saraiva (adapted by ASD).

    > perusal score

  • version 1: Alto+ensemble
    version 2: Choir (SSAAA / STTBB)

    Arrangement of a Portuguese folk song about love.

    > perusal score

  • Text: Alfred Tennyson

    2023, rev. 2025

  • Text and Music by ASD.

  • Text by Margret Kreidl

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  • Text: Margret Kreidl

  • Text & music: ASD.

  • version 1: SSATB
    version 2: Alto and Ensemble

    Based on the traditional folk song.


Choir arrangements & transcriptions

  • Music & text: Eric Idle

  • Arrangement for SSA

  • for SATB, div: SSAATTBB

  • Arrangement for SATB (no div.)

Chamber Music

  • for for Portuguese guitar, pianoforte and recorder.

    Inspired by a quote of the same titled book by Frances Hodgson Burnett:

    Where you tend a rose,
    A thistle cannot grow.