A tender deeply touching extended song which is within the scope of students. A Girl's Song to her Mother is a companion piece to Wings of the Grasses. Each piece recalls the open high moorland of South Wales. In A Girl's Song to her Mother the voice is a younger person comforting an older one. In Wings of the Grasses the voice changes from that of a child to that of a reflective adult.

Four songs set to texts by the Welsh poet Menna Elfyn Songs of the Cotton Grass are in turn tender reflective lively and full of the imagery of landscapes ranging from the open high moorland of South Wales to the cotton plantations of the USA's deep South.