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You are purchasing high quality sheet music PDF files suitable for printing or viewing on digital devices.Barra is the most beautiful of the Islands of the Outer Hebrides, it is also a musical island. Having visited it for many years I could resist writing a traditional descriptive tone poem. The piece starts with the journey across the sea followed by a description of night and day break over the island. Barra is a Catholic island and the church that overlooks Castlebay is dedicated to Our Lady Star of the Sea. The next section is a variation on one of the plainsong settings of 'Ave Maris Stella'. After this we visit the highest mountain in island, Heaval and hear the sound of the sea the wind and the birds.
No visit to the island is complete without a ceilidh. The island has many musicians but this section is dedicated to 'The Vatersay Boys' whose playing has an almost unequaled energy.
Unfortunately we have to leave the island and the next section features one of Barra's loveliest melodies 'The Sands of Vatersay' quickly followed by a last phrase of 'Ave Maris Stella' and the music of the sea with which the piece began.
