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Maybe It's My Turn Now
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Cinco Paul
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Maybe It's My Turn Now
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Choral Choir,Choral (TTBB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.1394999 Composed by Cinco Paul. Arranged by Steven Armstrong. Barbershop. 4 pages. Steven Armstrong...
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Choral Choir,Choral (TTBB) - Digital Download SKU: A0.1394999 Composed by Cinco Paul. Arranged by Steven Armstrong. Barbershop. 4 pages. Steven Armstrong #978488. Published by Steven Armstrong (A0.1394999).
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Maybe It's My Turn Now (from Schmigadoon! Season 2)
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Piano, Voice
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Maybe It's My Turn Now
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This edition: scorch. Film/TV, Musical/Show. Score. 4 pages. Hal Leonard - Digital #348343. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital...
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This edition: scorch. Film/TV, Musical/Show. Score. 4 pages. Hal Leonard - Digital #348343. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital
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For Once In My Life
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Stevie Wonder
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Michael Pilley
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For Once In My Life
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Tenor Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.746173 By Stevie Wonder. By Orlando Murden. Arranged by Michael Pilley. Pop. 5 pages. Michael...
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Tenor Voice,Vocal Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.746173 By Stevie Wonder. By Orlando Murden. Arranged by Michael Pilley. Pop. 5 pages. Michael Pilley Music #3684029. Published by Michael Pilley Music (A0.746173). THE ARRANGEMENTA few years ago, good friends of mine were getting married and asked if I could arrange this song for their ceremony, to be sung by a tenor with piano accompaniment. I wanted to write a completely new take on this classic song, so decided to set it as a ballad, rather than the popular Stevie Wonder version which is uptempo. I also had a very good pianist and tenor soloist, so consequently, the difficulty of the arrangement is at an advanced intermediate level, with the tenor going up to a Bb and the piano part containing a lot of black notes! I was really happy with how it turned out, but unfortunately couldn't fly to Australia just for the wedding and they didn't record it. So now it's available to purchase, in the hope that someone would enjoy singing it and maybe even send me a recording! THE SONGWritten for the Motown label, it first was recorded by Barbara McNair, followed by a host of others in a ballad style, until Stevie Wonder pumped up the tempo and reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard charts. It eventually was the title track for his album of the same name, and features the amazing Funk Brothers, most notably James Jamerson for his incredible bass playing on this track, known to be one of the greatest example of his style. Stevie Wonder also provided the harmonica solo on the track.PRINTING TIPSBeautifully laid out, the score and parts are easy to read and available NOW for digital download. We suggest you print on 80gsm paper, to ensure that the copies last longer in your library.More music can be found at www.michaelpilleymusic.com and follow me at https://www.facebook.com/MichaelPilleyMusic/ or https://twitter.com/MPilleyMusic
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Cinco Paul: Maybe It's My Turn Now (from Schmigadoon! Season 2) - voice & piano
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Instantly printable sheet music by Cinco Paul for voice & piano of MEDIUM skill level. / film/tv,musical/show,movies
Instantly printable sheet music by Cinco Paul for voice & piano of MEDIUM skill level. / film/tv,musical/show,movies
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In the Sweet By and By hymn for string trio
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and By! Why would not that mak
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In the Sweet By and By hymn fo
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String Ensemble,String Trio - Digital Download SKU: A0.749761 Arranged by SMT Music. Christian,Folk,Holiday,Patriotic,Sacred,Standards. Score and parts. ...
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String Ensemble,String Trio - Digital Download SKU: A0.749761 Arranged by SMT Music. Christian,Folk,Holiday,Patriotic,Sacred,Standards. Score and parts. 10 pages. SMT Music #6286217. Published by SMT Music (A0.749761). (published in 1868) Mr. Webster, like many musicians, was of an exceedingly nervous and sensitive nature, and subject to periods of depression, in which he looked upon the dark side of all things in life. I had learned his peculiarities so well that on meeting him I could tell at a glance if he was melancholy, and had found that I could rouse him up by giving him a new song to work on. He came into my place of business [in Elkhorn, Wisconsin], walked down to the stove, and turned his back on me without speaking. I was at my desk. Turning to him, I said, Webster, what is the matter now? It's no matter, he replied, it will be all right by and by. The idea of the hymn came me like a flash of sunlight, and I replied, The Sweet By and By! Why would not that make a good hymn? Maybe it would, he said indifferently. Turning to my desk I penned the words of the hymn as fast as I could write. I handed the words to Webster. As he read his eyes kindled, and stepping to the desk he began writing the notes. Taking his violin, he played the melody and then jotted down the notes of the chorus. It was not over thirty minutes from the time I took my pen to write the words before two friends with Webster and myself were singing the hymn.-Sanford Fillmore Bennett (1836-1898)[2].
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Moni Bergo
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Moni Bergo
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012700 Composed by Moni Bergo. Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. Moni Bergo #5742813. Published by Moni Bergo (A0.1012...
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012700 Composed by Moni Bergo. Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. Moni Bergo #5742813. Published by Moni Bergo (A0.1012700). Music and song composed by me♫ *'¨` * • .¸¸. ♫ ♫ * Addiction'¨` * • .¸¸. ♫ I seem you Free Instead I’m chained …. He approaches smiling I dislike him already there are few people on the subway but he sits right here. I ugly, a bit 'rickety conscious of my limitations I’m lost in the clouds and I do my own business He looks at me and is insistent but to me what he will wants? It 'a handsome man and elegant maybe he's short-sighted, who knows? From his piercing gaze I feel pierce and I'm already tired and in the face I want to shout Do you look like free but I’m in love Give me a piano, a guitar and I spend all day I become hysterical when they bring me on vacation because the seventh and turned just do not know do not chronically ill and I’m hopeless But I do not want drugs for this my addiction .. You should come and bursts into the veins with your chains hold me more I feel the boundless energy flows between the fingers and only you can and you ease my sorrows You are my mate in the darkest moments You will protect me by my excesses in this fake world spark you will be At the end decide his self and apostrophizes me so You're my new neighbor, my house is right there, and at evening you enchanted me and would listen to you for hours while you playing the piano with you I can fly and I know that maybe it's late But I would like to try I know that to children you give lesson and also I want to learn But that smart man! I like him already I tell him the story of the slap that he risked a little while ago He tells me he has a mate who loves him sweetly I'd take kicks diffident damn !! We free fly on our agreements in dissonance forgetting every problem, big trouble or task chronically ill of my own addiction which infects, spreads and enters into his life only souls and I bare his essence while listening him solmizate enters heaven in this room .. . Monica Bergo
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The Hummingbird Song
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Rob Birdwell
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a unique angle
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The Hummingbird Song
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Birdwell Music LLC
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SheetMusicPlus
Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Ukulele,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1004956 Composed by Rob Birdwell. Folk,Jazz,Pop. Score and parts. ...
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Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Ukulele,Voice - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1004956 Composed by Rob Birdwell. Folk,Jazz,Pop. Score and parts. 3 pages. Birdwell Music LLC #6657733. Published by Birdwell Music LLC (A0.1004956). This is a simple enough song that most beginners will be able to play the chords with a bit of practice. I should know, since this was one of the first songs I wrote when I was learning ukulele. As a songwriter, I'm always on the look out for song ideas that have some sort of universal appeal; a unique angle. Is this a song about hummingbirds? Is it about love? Well, yes and maybe more. That's the beauty of this song in my mind. It's a bit romantic, a bit nostalgic, and just a touch ironic. When I wrote the line Nobody sings of Hummingbirds anymore I laughed because there was - singing about them! And now you can too. I realize this is just a tiny song in a universe of loud, brash, sexy, etc. I like some of those songs too. But in the end, when all is said and done, we often turn to songs like this because they tend to stand the test of time. I hope you enjoy learning the song and playing it. -Rob Birdwell (2021).
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And His Kingdom Will Have No End
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Kevin Longley
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Kevin Longley
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Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1109087 By Kevin Longley. By Kevin Longley. Arranged by Kevin Longley. A Cappella,...
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Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1109087 By Kevin Longley. By Kevin Longley. Arranged by Kevin Longley. A Cappella,Christian,Praise & Worship,Religious,Sacred. 10 pages. Kevin Longley #711630. Published by Kevin Longley (A0.1109087). Inspiration While I have recited the Nicene Creed countless times, in July 2021 something changed. The church had cleared the return of the choir, post pandemic, and it was my first Sunday of singing in well over a year. That Sunday as I recited the creed something happened when I reached the line “And His Kingdom Will Have No Endâ€. Was it louder? Was it spoken with greater conviction? Something was different! Maybe it was just me. I'm not sure but all I know is that every Sunday thereafter it had the same impact on me. Within a few weeks I decided to compose a choral piece about that very line. I had to! The Music For the most part the harmony and structure are traditional but do contain harmonic structures with a contemporary flair. The arrangement is refrain, verse, refrain, verse, bridge and then refrain. The first and 3rd refrains are highly similar while the second refrain contains a soprano section descant while featuring the bass's carrying the main melody. The overall intent of the music is that on every return to the refrain, it is louder than the previous refrain. This signifies the singers confidence growing, in the existence of God's Kingdom, after each verse. With that said the piece starts quietly, almost being heard from a distance. The refrain lyrics speak to the hope that we carry for God's kingdom while the verses speak to God and Jesus in a more intimate way. The bridge speaks to the strength of the Kingdom and then leads back to the opening refrain, now in double forte. The high point in the piece is reached where volume, emotion and a significant ritard occur at the phrase “we'll be togetherâ€. From there the piece decreases in volume ending in a quiet confidence repeating “No end, no end, no endâ€.
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Sonata Franckoniana
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Oboe, Piano (duet)
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ADVANCED
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Contemporary
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Cesar Auguste Franck
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Robert Fruehwald
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Sonata Franckoniana
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Robert Fruehwald
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SheetMusicPlus
Small Ensemble Clarinet,Flute,Oboe,Piano - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.923701 Composed by Cesar Auguste Franck. Arranged by Robert Fruehwald. 20th...
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Small Ensemble Clarinet,Flute,Oboe,Piano - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.923701 Composed by Cesar Auguste Franck. Arranged by Robert Fruehwald. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 39 pages. Robert Fruehwald #2165237. Published by Robert Fruehwald (A0.923701). I have a love-hate relationship with the Cesar Franck D Minor Symphony. It was the first large scale romantic work that I played as a member of a youth orchestra. I remember the thrill of being immersed in the overwhelming drama of the work. As I have returned to the piece over the years, I still love it, or rather I love parts of it. It is a very, very long work. It takes a while to get to the point. The point of the piece, to me, is the last movement. It is fast, exciting, maybe even joyous. The long, dark, angst-ridden build-up seemed profound to me as a teenager. I am less patient today. Now I wish Franck had simply started with the last movement. I decided to try rewriting the symphony myself. I would start with material from the last movement. I would use all of the basic musical material of the piece, but I would condense it down to ten to fifteen minutes of music. I had originally intended to leave the romantic character of the work intact. That intention didn't last very long. As I worked on the piece, it very quickly became more post-modern than romantic. I think that's fine. The profundity may be gone, but I think the piece is more fun this way. As I get older the scales of my life are tipping more and more toward fun and less and less toward profundity. It's kind of nice that, as I age, I see more fun ahead me even if that means I'm seeing profundity recede in the rear-view mirror.
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Le streghe
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Piano solo
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Monica Bergo
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I find again
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Le streghe
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Monica Bergo
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SheetMusicPlus
Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.976872 Composed by Monica Bergo. Children,Contemporary,Halloween. Score. 8 pages. Monica Bergo #3240587. Published ...
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.976872 Composed by Monica Bergo. Children,Contemporary,Halloween. Score. 8 pages. Monica Bergo #3240587. Published by Monica Bergo (A0.976872). 2017 Holiday Contest Entry♫ *'¯` * • .¸¸. ♫ ♫ Witches *'¯` * • .¸¸. ♫ It seemed a day so, like many others, I wake up and commitments already there are pressing who asks, who call, they have all need leave me alone want my dream Today, I'm sorry, but is not the day from these chains I feel disconnected and run happy in the thick of the wood I reach my nest my hidden place I never afraid in the woods at night With they I find again the right atmosphere and there, around the fire there is my family the only, the true that resembles me the most And in my reflection are barefoot and shabby but just so , I feel myself and while we wait something to happen dolls in hand we look for a prey if in the Middle Ages they had burned us stronger and bad now we are back Between 1000 potions between powders and concoctions we here manufacture the strange mixtures And dance around the fire Of us, cares little to you we are ugly, we are ungainly we are dirty and unkempt and turned, turned around, there is a place in the world where it does not matter the look and appearance. And while we intone the chants to the moon a strange mantra to bring good luck I feel observed because there hidden he's , he followed me in the thick of wood I stop petrified and now I'm afraid because he knows nothing of my dark half and I see the contempt I can see it in his face and I have a heavy heart tears soaked-.... What I could say I would tell him do not go while time seems to stop a moment seems eternal.... But who cares half woman half witch If really you're interested maybe you love me the same.... and I look at you go away in my eyes nostalgy and a tear goes I think of what will not be strange actress consumed identity lost I try wherever my part always change my fate. And watch you disappear something inside me dies I would like an elixir of love it gives you back &n.
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WITCHS
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Piano solo
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Contemporary
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Monica Bergo
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I find again
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WITCHS
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Moni Bergo
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012708 Composed by Monica Bergo. Contemporary. Score. 11 pages. Moni Bergo #5742971. Published by Moni Bergo (A0.1...
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012708 Composed by Monica Bergo. Contemporary. Score. 11 pages. Moni Bergo #5742971. Published by Moni Bergo (A0.1012708). Music and song composed by me♫ *'¯` * • .¸¸. ♫ ♫ Witches *'¯` * • .¸¸. ♫ It seemed a day so, like many others, I wake up and commitments already there are pressing who asks, who call, they have all need leave me alone want my dream Today, I'm sorry, but is not the day from these chains I feel disconnected and run happy in the thick of the wood I reach my nest my hidden place I never afraid in the woods at night With they I find again the right atmosphere and there, around the fire there is my family the only, the true that resembles me the most And in my reflection are barefoot and shabby but just so , I feel myself and while we wait something to happen dolls in hand we look for a prey if in the Middle Ages they had burned us stronger and bad now we are back Between 1000 potions between powders and concoctions we here manufacture the strange mixtures And dance around the fire Of us, cares little to you we are ugly, we are ungainly we are dirty and unkempt and turned, turned around, there is a place in the world where it does not matter the look and appearance. And while we intone the chants to the moon a strange mantra to bring good luck I feel observed because there hidden he's , he followed me in the thick of wood I stop petrified and now I'm afraid because he knows nothing of my dark half and I see the contempt I can see it in his face and I have a heavy heart tears soaked-.... What I could say I would tell him do not go while time seems to stop a moment seems eternal.... But who cares half woman half witch If really you're interested maybe you love me the same.... and I look at you go away in my eyes nostalgy and a tear goes I think of what will not be strange actress consumed identity lost I try wherever my part always change my fate. And watch you disappear something inside me dies I would like an elixir of love it gives you back
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Illumine le tenebre
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Choral SATB
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Sarah Labrie, Conductor - Cham
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Illumine le tenebre
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Mary Ellen Haupert
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Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.900166 By Sarah Labrie, Conductor - Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop, Sarteano, ...
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Choral Choir,Choral (SATB divisi) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.900166 By Sarah Labrie, Conductor - Chamber Choral Conducting Workshop, Sarteano, Italy. By Mary Ellen Haupert. Easter,Sacred,Spiritual. 5 pages. Mary Ellen Haupert #3031789. Published by Mary Ellen Haupert (A0.900166). ILLUMINE LE TENEBRE (SSAATTBB) For Jean Saladino and the Viterbo University Concert Choir TRANSLATION of TEXT: Most High, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me true faith, certain hope and perfect charity, sense and knowledge, Lord, that I may carry out your holy and true command. Amen. - St. Francis of Assisi's Prayer before the Crucifix NOTES from the composer: One year ago, I had the privilege of participating in the Leadership Pilgrimage to Assisi and Rome (2011) sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Franciscan Healthcare, and Viterbo University. I carried with me, not only the responsibility of bringing back a hint of Francis’ lived experience to my students, but the desire to compose something wholly Franciscan. The San Damiano Cross is one of the most distinctive Franciscan images we have on campus. The gentle Jesus that hangs on this 12th-century icon will forever be linked to Francis’ dramatic step from citizen to sainthood-welcoming his earnest prayer to enlighten the darkness of his heart. The Basilica of Santa Chiara in Assisi holds both the San Damiano Cross and the remains of his confidante, St. Clare. It seemed a good place to start getting serious. Copying the prayer in at least six different languages, I tucked it away in my travel books, not digging it out again until the following summer (2012). The opening phrases in the piece came easily enough (Altissimo, glorioso Dio), but I stumbled through a handful of ideas before coming up with the mantra (illumine le tenebre…). It made sense that Francis would joyfully address God singing forte (Altissimo and Signore), while quietly chanting his humble prayers for faith, hope, charity, and knowledge. The friendship between Francis and Clare can’t be missed, not only in the intermingling of SATB voices, but in the setting of che faccia lo tuo santo e verace comadamento (that I may carry out your holy and true command). The phrase is sung only once by the women before the final return of the illumine chant (which is repeated throughout by the men). Maybe I chanced on weaving some of Clare’s courage with Francis’ persistence into Illumina le tenebre, all while trying to compose something wholly Franciscan?  ---Mary Ellen Haupert, October 2012. Â
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