![]() ![]() Verbum Caro Factum Est – Hans Leo Hassler Spring, 2020 – (Cancelled because of the Covid 19 Pandemic) The Music’s Always There with You – John Rutterįall, 2020 – Cancelled because of the Covid 19 Pandemic Healing Light from “The Peacemakers” – Karl Jenkins Kyrie from “The Armed Man, a Mass for Peace” – Karl Jenkins “Two for One: Songs of Beauty and Comfort” The Music’s Always There With You – John Rutter Songs of Springtime (Drinking Song) – Ernest Moeran How Can I Keep from Singing – Sarah Quartel The Singer’s Dance (Wound in the Water) – Kim Andre Arnesen We Remember Them (Requiem) – Kim Andre Arnesen My God is a Rock – Alice Parker/Robert Shaw Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal – Alice Parker/Robert Shaw That Our Lady is “the matter of sanctity” appears to have struck him, too.Contemplation and Benediction (Miserere) – Karl Jenkins ![]() (Those better in music theory than I can correct me in the comments - please!) Note the uplifting harmonic effect he produces on the very line that I have underlined in the text. ![]() Gjeilo’s composition is modal (albeit with modulations throughout), like Saint Hildegard’s chant, hence his copious use of so many accidentals in a piece that looks as if it would be in C major or A minor. It’s refreshing to find that real art still exists. He is one of several who are writing good sacred music in our day. I tripped on this whilst acquainting myself with a modern setting of the first stanza of Saint Hildegard’s piece by the Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo (pron. You Maiden are the piercing gaze of chastity, Hail, nobly born, hail, honored and inviolate, My point is made in the first stanza, with the pertinent words here underlined: Here is a parallel Latin-English version online. ![]() The piece is her Ave Generosa, which you can listen to here:Īttend to the text. One point that I was trying to make in the piece I published yesterday, Who is the Matrix?, is wonderfully made in a sacred hymn composed by Saint Hildegard (popularly called Hildegard von Bingen). ![]()
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