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Smith, Andrew: Lux illuxit laetabunda

choral sheets

Setting: Mixed Voices
Length: 8 pages
Weight: 0.017 kg
Published: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item number: OUP9780193355583
Other reference: 9780193355583
ISMN: 9780193355583
for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Set to the text of a 12th-century Sequence in honour of the martyr St Olav and characterized by a mellifluous plainchant-style melody, this glorious motet pulses with understated intensity. The opening drones, performed in free time and re-stated throughout, establish a quiet energy which rises until the luminescent final section, in which the heavens are called to rejoice. The original Sequence provides a stately coda. This is splendid and original music,

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