for women's or children's choir

Ross Edwards

These five unaccompanied motets for a choir of female (originally children's) voices were extracted from my nativity play Quem Quaeritis (text devised by Graham Williams), which I composed in 1967 while still a student in the Music Department of The University of Adelaide.

Today, more than thirty years after their composition, I think they can count as a respectable opus 1, all my prior works having been withdrawn.

The settings are of mediaeval English texts, and the influence of Peter Maxwell Davies, who had been my teacher in the previous year, is often evident.