SSAA choir SKU: CA.964420 No. 3 from Three Marian Motets. Composed...(+)
SSAA choir
SKU:
CA.964420
No. 3
from Three Marian
Motets. Composed by
Ko Matsushita.
Contemporary Choir Music.
Hodie Beata Virgo Maria
Fass.Ssaa. Sacred vocal
music, Advent, Feasts of
the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Hymns in praise of the
Virgin Mary. Full score.
Carus Verlag #CV
09.644/20. Published by
Carus Verlag (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.
SSAATB choir, piano reduction - Intermediate SKU: GI.G-8360 Composed by G...(+)
SSAATB choir, piano
reduction - Intermediate
SKU: GI.G-8360
Composed by Giovanni
Gabrieli. Edited by
Dennis Shrock. GIA
Historical Music. Music
Education. Octavo. 8
pages. GIA Publications
#8360. Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-8360).
UPC: 785147836001.
Italian.
Giovanni
Gabrieli's Se cantano
gl'augelli comes from a
collection of madrigals
entitled Il trionfo di
Dori. Each madrigal is
scored for six voices and
each ends with the text
Viva la bella Dori (Long
live fair Dori). This
late sixteenth-century
collection of madrigals
enjoyed great success and
was the model of the
famous English collection
of madrigals entitled,
The Triumphes of Oriana.
The GIA Historical Music
Series edited by Dennis
Shrock, presents
repertoire suitable for
performance by public
school, college and
university, church, and
community ensembles, with
the purpose of making
available to
today’s conductors
lesser-known and
previously
difficult-to-procure
historical masterpieces.
The music, drawn from the
Renaissance through the
Romantic eras, is in
performance editions
based on the most current
and rigorous scholarly
research. The musical
scores reflect original
intent of notation, with
all editorial markings
and emendations clearly
identified as such. In
addition, preface
material accompanying the
music contains literal
translations of foreign
language texts and
information regarding the
lives of the composers,
genres, and relevant
performance practices.
Dennis Shrock is Director
of Choral Activities at
Texas Christian
University. He has been
called one of the top
choral scholars in the
United States and has
received a number of
awards for his work. He
received a bachelor's
degree in music education
from Westminster Choir
College and both master's
and doctoral degrees in
choral conducting from
Indiana
University. .