Female choir (SSAA) a
cappella - intermediate
SKU: HL.49043921
Composed by Johannes
Eccard. This edition:
Folding. Sheet music.
Choral. Octavo. 4 pages.
Schott Music #C56106.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49043921).
ISBN
9790001197427.
German.
The a
cappella choral setting
Der Tag, der ist so
freudenreich for
four-part women's choir
written by the 1553-born
composer Johannes Eccard
from Muhlhausen in
Thuringia is, indeed, a
real pleasure. The
German-language text is
borrowed from an old
Latin Christmas carol,
singing of the miracle of
Nativity in two verses.
Eccard manages, in an
engaging manner, to
musically express the
joyous atmosphere of this
poem. All four female
voices (SSAA) join
imitatively in the
angelic chant of joy one
after the other, while
central words like
'freudenreich' [joyful],
'Himmelreich' [kingdom of
heaven], 'Jungfrau'
[virgin] or 'Mutter'
[mother] are particularly
embellished. This is
exhilarating and
easy-to-perform utility
music for Christmas
church services.
Borrowed Heaven
