Henry Purcell: Hear My Prayer, O Lord: Mixed Choir And Accomp.
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COMPOSER:
Henry Purcell
PUBLISHER:
Novello and Co
INSTRUMENTATION:
SATB
PRODUCT FORMAT:
Vocal Score
This setting of the opening to Psalm 102 was composed in the early 1680s. Purcell, who was in his early twenties, had succeeded John Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey around the beginning of the decade and his star was in theascendant as a court composer. In this piece he pulls off a remarkable
Specifications
Composer | Henry Purcell |
Publisher | Novello and Co |
Instrumentation | SATB |
Number of pages | 12 |
Product Format | Vocal Score |
Description Product Type | Choral Score |
Genre | Classical |
Style Period | Baroque |
ISBN | 9781780382227 |
Series | Novello New Choral Engravings |
No. | MUSNOV292369 |
Product Dimensions | 24,8 x 17 cm |
Voicing | SATB |
Minimum Order Quantity Sales | 5 |
Description
This setting of the opening to Psalm 102 was composed in the early 1680s. Purcell, who was in his early twenties, had succeeded John Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey around the beginning of the decade and his star was in theascendant as a court composer.
In this piece he pulls off a remarkable compositional coup: a single, gradual climax, lasting over two minutes and culminating on the final repetition of the word 'come', is achieved through asublime, freely developing eight-part weave of the opening material. The harmonies that result from the chromatic inflections on the word 'crying' all serve the mounting tension in this extraordinary miniature.
Studyofthe autograph manuscript suggest that this anthem was intended to be the opening part of a larger work which was never completed.
In this piece he pulls off a remarkable compositional coup: a single, gradual climax, lasting over two minutes and culminating on the final repetition of the word 'come', is achieved through asublime, freely developing eight-part weave of the opening material. The harmonies that result from the chromatic inflections on the word 'crying' all serve the mounting tension in this extraordinary miniature.
Studyofthe autograph manuscript suggest that this anthem was intended to be the opening part of a larger work which was never completed.