Soprano voice solo, SATB choir, and piano (E-flat Soprano saxophone, 2 Horns in ...(+)
Soprano voice solo, SATB
choir, and piano (E-flat
Soprano saxophone, 2
Horns in F, Piano, Organ
(or digital keyboard),
Double String Quartet,
Double Bass) - Beginning
SKU: MN.56-0106
Composed by Howard
Goodall. Lent, Holy Week,
Triduum/Three Days,
Tenebrae, 21st Century.
Score & instrument parts.
Duration 6 minutes, 47
seconds. MorningStar
Music Publishers
#56-0106. Published by
MorningStar Music
Publishers (MN.56-0106).
UPC: 688670221231.
English,
Latin.
Invictus: A
Passion addresses one of
the world’s most
powerful stories through
the lens of the modern
world. The texts, written
or inspired by women,
describe not only human
suffering and persecution
but also the human
capacity for love and
humility in the face of
tyranny. Composer Howard
Goodall is uniquely
suited to bring these
texts to life with music
of emotional clarity and
sweeping force. This
movement, scored for
soprano solo, SATB choir
and piano, expresses the
unimaginable pain felt by
a mother seeing her child
torn away from her at a
slave auction. To this
harrowing account are
appended the words of
William Wilberforce,
spoken in the House of
Commons on 18th April
1791, “You may
choose to look the other
way but you can never say
again that you did not
know.†Duration
6:47.