Publisher Desc.  "Sunrise Carol" sets an original poem styled after the romantic medieval ballades of Machaut and his contemporary composer-poets. Set as a carol, strophic in form, the music harkens to a simpler era of composition, one favored in Medieval times when romance lived in the song itself, tailored to enrapture the listener. "Sunrise Carol" is a love song to nature, and to the feeling of rebirth upon witnessing the resplendence of daybreak.