SKU: HL.50499574

ISBN 9781480371255. UPC: 884088987985. 6.75x10.5 inches.

The American composer William Schuman (1910-1992) wrote works in virtually every musical genre, each mirroring his strong personality in their sharply defined sense of structure, line, and dynamism. This short wordless composition for women's chorus and piano dates from 1942 and was written for the Sarah Lawrence Chorus.

SKU: CA.320680

ISBN 9790007157005. Key: G major. Language: German.

SKU: CA.328930

ISBN 9790007169763. Key: G major. Language: German. Text: Heyse, Paul. Text by Paul Heyse.

SKU: CA.328980

ISBN 9790007169640. Key: G major. Language: German.

SKU: CA.320840

ISBN 9790007177409. Key: G major. Language: Italian.

SKU: CA.964420

ISBN 9790007143497. Text language: Latin.

The aged Simeon takes the new-born Jesus in his arms, recognises his significance and celebrates this moment in a paean of praise as the fulfilment of his life. In Matsushita's motet this song of praise, the nunc dimittis, stands at the centre of the composition. Here, the triad of C-F sharp-G, used for the word hodie - today at the beginning, symbolically combines with a Gregorian-like motif, revolving around the central note of B flat in whole-tone movement, and which is used to represent the Virgin Mary. The work ends with a mystical wash of sound, a whole-tone cluster which emerges from the aleatorically repeated basic motifs of the work, and fades away to nothing.