Solo voices, SATB double
chorus, piano or organ -
Grade 3
SKU:
CA.2331150
The
Seven Words of Christ on
the Cross. Composed
by Charles Francois
Gounod. Edited by Hazel
Rowland. Carus digital:
Extra digital products.
Full Score. Composed
1855. CG 147. 24 pages.
Duration 15 minutes.
Carus Verlag #2331150.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.2331150).
ISBN
9790007301712.
Latin.
Spoken
during his final hours,
the “seven
words†have been
taken as a profound
insight into
Jesus‘s final
suffering on the cross.
These words, or rather
statements, have been set
by numerous composers in
different languages.
Charles Gounod’s
setting of The Seven
Words of Christ on the
Cross returns to the
Latin text and explicitly
recalls the music of
Palestrina, but with an
added nineteenth-century
harmonic twist. The
edition of this a
cappella work comes with
a piano reduction for
rehearsal purposes. Score
available separately -
see item CA.2331100.