Classic Alleluia Canon

SKU: HL.428627

ISBN 9781705163238. UPC: 196288063988. 5.0x5.0x0.925 inches.

This choral compilation brings together beloved carols and new seasonal lyrics with celebrated music from Bach, Handel, Mozart and others. As a collection, you can use this resource throughout Advent and Christmas, or use the optional narration to present the entire work as a cantata. A full line of support products is available to enable your performance options. Score and Parts (instrumentation varies by song) available as a digital download. For the Accompaniment Tracks: Audio is accessed online using the unique code generated upon purchase and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. HL00428625: Accompaniment Tracks Songs include: Canon de Noel; Procession of Light; A Classic Advent Flourish; Advent Alleluia; Celebration for Advent; He Shall Feed His Flock; An Etude Carol; Christ Is Born! Let Earth and Heaven Rejoice; Adoramus Te; Christmas Jubilate.

SKU: BT.PMC3367

Each of the five connected movements in this choral cycle contains references to 'Light,' assembled from various sacred Latin texts. I composed Lux Aeterna in response to my mother's final illness and found great personal comfortand solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels - spiritual, artistic and intellectual. The work opens and closes with the beginning and ending of theRequiem Mass, with the central three movements drawn respectively from the Te Deum, O Nata Lux and Veni, Sancte Spiritus. The opening Introitus introduces several themes that recur later in the work and includes an extended canonon et lux perpetua. In Te, Domine, Speravi contains, among other musical elements, the cantus firmus Herzliebster Jesu (from the Nuremburg Songbook, 1677) and a lengthy inverted canon on fiat misericordia. O Nata Lux and Veni,Sancte Spiritus are paired songs, the former an a cappella motet at the center of the work and the latter a spirited, jubilant canticle. A quiet setting of the Agnus Dei precedes the final Lux Aeterna, which reprises the openingsection of the Introitus and concludes with a joyful celebratory Alleluia. --Morten Lauridsen.