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The beatitudes : a cantata for soprano and tenor soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra (1961) / Arthur Bliss.
LIBRA M2020.B554 B4 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Bliss, Arthur, 1891-1975, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cantatas, Sacred--Scores.
- Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra--Scores.
- Beatitudes (Music).
- Genre:
- Cantatas.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (138 pages) ; 30 cm
- Edition:
- Full score.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Novello, [2015]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- English words.
- Contents:
- A troubled world
- The Mount of Olives
- First and second beatitudes
- Easter
- I got me flowers to strew thy way
- Third beatitude
- The lofty looks of man shall be humbled
- Fourth beatitude
- The call
- Orchestra interlude
- Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth beatitudes
- And death shall have no dominion
- Ninth beatitude
- Revile him! Persecute him!
- O blessed Jesu.
- Prelude ; A troubled world / [text by] Donne
- The Mount of Olives / [text by] Henry Vaughan
- I got me flowers to strew thy way / [text by] George Herbert
- The lofty looks of man shall be humbled / adapted from Isaiah II vv. 10-20
- The call / [text by] Henry Vaughan
- And death shall have no dominion / [text by] Dylan Thomas
- Epilogue ; O blessed Jesu / [text by] Jeremy Taylor.
- Notes:
- Commissioned by the Coventry Cathedral Festival for the opening of the new cathedral in 1962. The texts were compiled by Christopher Hassall. Bliss dedicated the music to his granddaughter.
- Duration: approximately 50 min.
- OCLC:
- 927456198
- Publisher Number:
- 5020679158159
- NOV295339 Novello
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