Journal Article NEW MUSIC FOR VOICE Get access David Bedford, The Tentacles of the Dark Nebula, for tenor and eight string instruments; When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer, for tenor and fourteen wind instruments. Scores. ( Universal, London, 1975, £4.00 each.) Richard Rodney Bennett, Tenebrae, song cycle for baritone and piano. ( Universal, London, 1975, £1.50.) Harrison Birtwistle, Nenia: the Death of Orpheus, for soprano, three bass clarinets, crotales and piano. Score. ( Universal, London, 1974, £3.75.) Crosse Gordon, The New World: Six Poems by Ted Hughes, for medium voice and piano. ( Oxford University Press, 1975, £2.50.) Roberto Gerhard, The Akond of Swat, for voice and percussion. Score. ( Oxford University Press, 1975, £1.35.) David Lumsdaine, Annotations of Auschwitz, for soprano and instrumental ensemble. Score. ( Universal, Australia, 1975, £4.00.) Phyllis Tate, To Words by Joseph Beaumont, three songs for SSA and piano. ( Oxford University Press, 1974, 90P.) PETER ASTON PETER ASTON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume LVII, Issue 4, October 1976, Pages 452–454, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/LVII.4.452 Published: 01 October 1976