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Canticles of Light
Te lucis ante terminum
Vocal and instrumental scores and parts on hire
978-0-19-335530-9
18 May 2000
Price: Available on request
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for children's chorus, SATB chorus and chamber orchestra
A dark and beautiful, yet also extremely approachable, work in three movements. The first two are darker in character: evening hymns that ask for protection and comfort through the night. The music lightens for the final hymn, a song for the morning that looks forward to a new beginning. Forces or CategoryChildren's chorus, SATB & chamber orchestraDuration17
minutesDifficultyEasyOrchestration2 fl, ob, 2 cl, bn, 2 hn, timp, tbell, strProgramme NotesI have known the Latin texts for this piece since my childhood. As a boy I sang them in versions by two great English Renaissance composers — Thomas Tallis and Robert Whyte. Their music exudes comfort, and the texts, sung at the service of Compline in the evening and Matins in the morning, speak almost of a personal and private relationship with God.
Perhaps these timeless texts speak to us even more
poignantly now. Within my piece, the texts in the first two sections Te lucis ante terminum and Christe qui splendor et dies actually speak of darkness — they ask for God's light to protect us through the night and to allay our fears. The last O nata lux speaks with a more positive and hopeful voice, that God's light will give us hope with the new light of the day.
© Bob Chilcott
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Bob Chilcott (b.1955) Bob Chilcott has been involved with choral music all his life, first as a Chorister and then a Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge. Later, he sang and composed music for 12 years with the King's Singers. His experiences with that group, his passionate commitment to young and amateur choirs, and his profound belief that music can unite people, have inspired him both to compose full-time and, through proactive workshopping, to promote choral music worldwide.Bob Chilcott's website
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"Musically, this piece is not as difficult as it may appear on paper. Certainly, the chords tend to shimmer, but they are not difficult to achieve nor to maintain, and should not present any real problems for a well trained ensemble . . . Mr Chilcott provides plenty of scope for dynamic variation, while allowing the listener peace in which to worship God, which is, after all, the essential business of hymns. Very warmly recommended." - Henry Howell, Australian Music Teacher March 2002 "Provided that there is space to set the upper-voice choir apart from the main choir, it is both practical and atmospheric." - Church Times 12 October 2001 "The part writing is close and frequently dissonant, giving the
music a rich but misty texture, reminding me of a sunset by Turner . . . The inclusion of an upper-voice choir . . . is an inspired idea and certainly adds an extra dimension to the texture . . . Although not celebratory in feeling, they could grace the programme of any special concert by a distinguished choir." - Music Teacher Sept 01 "There is much to recommend in this work . . . Although the three sections are intended to run together, there seems no reason why each could not be performed separately in liturgical use." - Organists' Review August 2001 "This is a concise work with highly approachable choral writing which choirs will enjoy getting their teeth into . . . Canticles of Light is certainly a work which will find a place in
the choral repertoire of the 21st century." - The Organ May 2001
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Te lucis ante terminum
Christe, qui, splendor et dies
O nata lux de lumine
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