O Magna Res (2019)
Colin Eatock
Product ID SON00002299
Composer Colin Eatock
Duration 03:00 min
Genre Classical, Choral
Instrumentation Choir and vocal ensemble
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O Magna Res (2019)

O Magna Res (2019)

SKU SON00002299
Composer Colin Eatock
Arranger
Genre Classical
Choral
Instrumentation Choir and vocal ensemble
Free description For a-cappella SSSAAA vocal ensemble
Grade 6
Duration 03:00 min
Year 2019

Score

€ 5,00

Program Notes

For a-cappella SSSAAA vocal ensemble

The composer writes: Hildegard von Bingen (1098 – 1179) was a woman of many talents: she was a magistra, a philosopher, a scientist, a poet and a composer. An extensive body of her sacred songs was collected in a cycle called the Symphonia armoniae celestium revelationum (The Harmonic Music of Celestial Mysteries). The collection also contains several texts for which Hildegard’s music has been lost, and “O Magna Res” is one of these.
 
“O Magna Res” could be described as a miniature chronology of the Christian spiritual world. It begins with God alone, proceeding to His creation of life, and then to the fall of humanity. As in many of Hildegard’s texts, “O Magna Res” contrasts the Virgin Mary with Eve. Finally, with the birth of Christ (for which the “dawn” is a poetic metaphor) comes the redemption of Woman, and her beneficent influence on the world.

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