IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER

Hummingbird Music Publishers · In The Bleak Midwinter Watch Score VideoView Score Gustav Holst’s setting of Christina Rossetti’s poem, In the Bleak Midwinter, is the basis for this moody work for clarinet and piano, largely inspired by the poem’s first verse which speaks of cold wind, snow, and ice of winter. The clarinet’s dynamic capability is a major factor, warmly dominating the music and contrasting the often-‘icy’ starkness of the piano accompaniment. The music is of moderate difficulty, with a performance duration of four minutes.