Details
- Instrument:
- Choir Organ Accompaniment Soprano Voice Voice Solo
- Ensembles:
- Choir
- Genres:
- Christian 20th Century
- Composers:
- Judith Shatin
- Publishers:
- E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital
- Series:
- Women Composers and Arrangers
- Format:
- Octavo
- Item types:
- Digital
- Level:
- Beginning Intermediate
- Artist:
- Judith Shatin
- Number of Pages:
- 10
SKU: MQ.7363-E
Composed by Judith Shatin. 20th Century. Memorial, 20th Century, Faith, Hope/Assurance, Lament/Grief/Sorrow. Octavo. 10 pages. E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital #7363-E. Published by E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital (MQ.7363-E).English. Psalms 139.
"And the Night Will Shine as Day is based on Psalm 139 as translated in Psalms Anew (St. Mary's Press) by Sisters Maureen Leach and Nancy Schreck. The portions of text I chose to set deal with the encompassing and comforting nature of God and the guiding aspects of faith. The music seeks to envelop the meaning of the text, with numerous instances of word painting. Listen, for example, to the musical settings of 'flew to the point of sunrise,' or 'sink to Sheol.' Subtler representation includes the registral hollowness of the sound prior to the words 'God search me.' The harmonic structure is also organized around the textual meaning, with the darker chordal motion of the opening transformed into a more radiant consonance at the close.
This piece was composed in memory of Mary Leigh Walker for soprano Priscilla Little and organist Linda Hanson. I am grateful to the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, which kindly allowed me use of their fine tracker-action organ during the compositional process."-Judith Shatin
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- Series:
- Women Composers and Arrangers
- Instrument:
- Vocal Choir Piano and Keyboard Organ Accompaniment Vocal Voice Soprano Voice Vocal Voice Voice Solo
- Artists:
- Judith Shatin
- Ensemble:
- Choir
- Publisher:
- E. C. Schirmer Music Company - Digital