Auferstehn Chorale SSATB SSATB A Cappella - Avancé Schott
Choral (SSATB a cappella) - advanced SKU: HL.49019492 SSATB a cappella...(+)
Choral (SSATB a cappella)
- advanced
SKU:
HL.49019492
SSATB
a cappella, German.
Composed by Heinrich
Poos. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. Choral. Classical,
Contemporary. Octavo. 8
pages. Schott Music
#C55501. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49019492).
ISBN
9790001192699.
7.75x11.0x0.039 inches.
German.
Heinrich
Poos is not the first
composer inspired by
Friedrich Gottlieb
Klopstock's poem 'Die
Auferstehung', as even
Gustav Mahler had already
used these verses in the
fifth movement of his
Second Symphony
'Auferstehung'. Mahler
was inspired to use a
choral movement at the
end of his symphony at
the funeral of the
conductor Hans von
Bülow where a choir
sang a chorale based on
said text by Klopstock.
Heinrich Poos wrote his
deeply moving choral
piece in remembrance of
the organist Hubert
Schoonbrodt.
Composed by
Peter Relph. Evoking
Sound. Music Education.
20 pages. GIA
Publications #9610.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-9610).
UPC: 785147961000.
Latin. Text Source: Attr.
Ambrose of Milan,
340–397. Text by
Ambrose of
Milan.
Composer's
Notes When I met Kelsey
Rose in Oxford in St.
Stephen’s House
chapel over the summer of
2017, we had both just
attended a very moving
candlelit concert by
Westminster Williamson
Voices, featuring my
setting of
“Tenebrae
lumini.†I was
delighted to be asked to
write a piece for
compline in Princeton
University Chapel,
celebrating the 150th
anniversary of the
Anglican/Episcopal
chaplaincy at Princeton
University.
“Aurora†is
the result of that
meeting. Composing by
commission often throws
up some interesting
challenges. The piece had
to fit both as an
accompanying piece to the
plainchant of compline,
whilst simultaneously
being a celebratory
anthem. I was instantly
drawn back to the poetry
and hymns of St. Ambrose
of Milan, particularly
“Aurora iam spargit
polum.†Fragments
of chant (both real and
imagined) are used to
create the powerful
imagery of the descending
golden light of dawn. The
piece reaches its climax
with the plea for the
despair of night to
“vanish,â€
which it then does,
leaving the sopranos
alone on a high G.
God is Light Chorale SSATB Oxford University Press
SSATB choir, a cappella (SATB) - Moderately Difficult SKU: OU.9780193415652(+)
SSATB choir, a cappella
(SATB) - Moderately
Difficult
SKU:
OU.9780193415652
Composed by Cecilia
McDowall. Sacred choral -
mixed voices. New
Horizons. Vocal score. 16
pages. Duration 5'.
Oxford University Press
#9780193415652. Published
by Oxford University
Press (OU.9780193415652).
ISBN 9780193415652. 12
x 8 inches.
For
SSATB unaccompanied This
anthem sets lines from
Psalm 139, 1
Thessalonians, and 1
John, moving from an
unsettled tonality at the
beginning, through
anguished false relations
and wistful expressivity,
to find triumphant
resolution in a blazing A
major at the end. Like
all of McDowall's music,
it is well crafted and
singable.