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Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon: Beati pauperes

choral sheets

Setting: Mixed Voices
Period: Baroque
Length: 16 pages
Weight: 0.035 kg
Published: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Item number: OUP9780193950207
Other reference: 9780193950207
ISMN: 9780193950207
for SATTB and organ continuo Sweelinck's setting of the Beatitudes is suitable for any Saint's day or the commemoration of the faithful departed. For the words 'Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake', Sweelinck used a powerful chain of suspensions over a rising bass.

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