Format : Octavo
SKU: HP.1755
UPC: 763628117559.
As the title indicates, there are 13 new hymn texts based on Psalms, 12 as hymns and 24 as new spiritual songs. All are set to tunes ancient and modern, and all have been written since the publication of A Year of Grace (1990) and To Sing God's Praise (1992).
SKU: C4.9790902261180
ISBN 9790902261180. 8.27 x 11.7 inches.
Excelsis 1 is the first volume in A Distant Music, an anthology of sacred music by Australian composers, curated by church musicians Michael Leighton Jones, Daniel Mitterdorfer, Brooke Shelley and The Rev'd Christopher Waterhouse. This volume contains 25 descants and reharmonisations of well-known hymn-tunes, with reproducible descant sheets for the singers.