Brass Ensemble, Brass
Instruments, SATB
SKU:
HL.14028037
Composed
by Poul Ruders. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Score. Music
Sales #KP00435. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14028037).
ISBN
9788759871799.
Rude
rs writes: gl0rIA is
subtitled: a relique for
large chorus and 12
brass-instruments. At the
same time it is an
exercise for chorus
because only vowels do
occur, or virtually no
consonants are heard. The
second part of the Missa
Ordinarium, the Gloria in
Exelcis Deo makes the
literary basis of g10rIA,
but I employ only the
vowels, which in their
full context form a
non-language, - fragments
of a tradition. A less
dim vision of the severed
body appears in the
center of the piece,
where the Domini
Fili-section surfaces in
its original shape.
gl0rIA is a 20th century
composer's hommage to the
innocent faith of bygone
days and a fanfare in
honour of Claudio
Monteverdi; thus the ever
present elaborations of
the introduction to the
Vespro Della Beate
Vergine. Superimposed on
the torso of Latin, I
wedge in a quotation from
the Spanish renaissance
poet Gonzalo de Berceo's
Duelo de la Virgen, a
surrealistic Lamento, in
which the Jews, sent by
Pilate to stand guard at
the tomb of Christ, mock
and ridicule Maria, Jesu
mother. Thus a shadow has
been cast over the
jubilant religious
appraisal of the past,
which today's knowledge
of atrocities and
enormities engineered by
Mankind, has - alas -
made so hard to
repeat.
