God of Creation

Vocal score
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-351778-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Sonstiges, Englisch, 8 Seiten

for SATB unaccompanied
God of creation sets an English translation of a Latin hymn attributed to St Ambrose. Smith employs a mixture of homophony and independent part-writing, along with a range of dynamic effects, to create moments of tenderness and majesty within this short piece.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smith, Carl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Vokalmusik, Chormusik

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Smith is a faculty member at the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he teaches courses in music theory, counterpoint, choral composition, and Historical Performance Traditions. He is the composer of eight song-cycles to various poets, keyboard music, anthems, and several larger motets. He is perhaps best known as a composer for his numerous settings for various ensembles of the poems, aphorisms, and letters of the Italian
artist and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti (all in his own translations) and for his secular requiem The Lavender Fields to poems of Czeslaw Milosz.