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Lux Aurumque ("Light and Gold", sometimes "Light of Gold") is a choral composition in one movement by Eric Whitacre.It is a Christmas piece based on a Latin poem of the same name, which translates as "Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly to the new born babe". [1]
The six motets consist of poems by British poets and a text from the Coverdale translation of the Psalter found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, set to music for unaccompanied choir. [1] "My soul, there is a country" Text by Henry Vaughan, set for SATB choir in G major "I know my soul hath power" Text by John Davies, set for SATB choir in B ...
Other musical settings of the poem include: Christian Gottfried Körner (1786) Carl Friedrich Zelter (1792), for choir and accompaniment, later rewritten for different instrumentations. Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1796) Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson (1796) Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg (1799) Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1803)
Rutter, who composed many works to celebrate Christmas, wrote his own text for Angels' Carol, beginning "Have you heard the sound of the angel voices". [1] The text alludes to several aspects of the Christmas story, with the Latin refrain "Gloria in excelsis Deo" from the angels' song mentioned in the Gospel of Luke narration of the annunciation to the shepherds.
"Music, When Soft Voices Die" is a major poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1824 in London by John and Henry L. Hunt with a preface by Mary Shelley. [1] The poem is one of the most anthologised, influential, and well-known of Shelley's works. [2] [3]
His choral poetry was known only through quotations by other Greek authors until 1855, when a discovery of a papyrus was found in a tomb at the Saqqara ancient burial ground in Egypt. This papyrus, now displayed at the Louvre in Paris, held the fragment with approximately 100 verses of his Partheneion (a poem sung by a chorus of adolescent girls).
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Shortly before he died, Tennyson told his son Hallam to "put 'Crossing the Bar' at the end of all editions of my poems". [1] The poem contains four stanzas that generally alternate between long and short lines. Tennyson employs a traditional ABAB rhyme scheme. Scholars have noted that the form of the poem follows the content: the wavelike ...