Martin Smolka Sicut Nix
Drei Gesänge für Chor Three Chants for Choir
Partitur Score
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Sicut Nix
Drei Gesänge für Chor (24 Stimmen)
nach Textausschnitten von Thoreau und aus den Psalmen
Three Chants for Choir (24 Voices)
Partitur Score
Excerpts from Thoreau and Psalms Printed in Germany
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Contents I Murmuring Morning
Texts
I Murmuring Morning
Murmuring morning
Snow lies, all snow
The roofs stand under their snow burden
The trees rear white arms
And where were walls and fences we see fantastic forms
Windy winter morning
A lurid brazen light in the east proclaims the approach of day.
Thoreau, Winter Walk
II Feathery Flakes
While the earth has slumbered
All the air has been alive with feathery flakes descending
As if some northern Ceres reigned
Showering her silvery grain over all the fields
The livelong night
III Wings of Wind
Bless the Lord, O my soul
Thoreau, Winter Walk
O Lord, my God, Thou art very great
Thou art clothed with honor and majesty
Who covers Thyself with light as with a garment
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
Who makes the clouds His chariot
Who walks upon the wings of the wind
Psalm 104
Scoring
Soprano (6 Voices)
Alto (6 Voices)
Tenor (6 Voices)
Bass (6 Voices)
Duration – 2 versions
approx. 17 minutes (mov. I, II, III or I, II, III A) or approx. 9 minutes (just mov. II and IIIA)
Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks
IIIA He Gives Snow
He gives snow like wool
He scatters the hoarfrost like ashes
He casts forth His ice like morsels
Who can stand before His cold
He sends out His word, and melts them
He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow
Amen
Note:
Psalm 147
Thoreau᾿s “verses” were excerpted from longer sentences.
Exceptionally some of Thoreau s words were connected in new order (“murmuring morning”, “windy winter morning”).
Source of the English translation of the Psalms: King James Bible.
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Try to intone slightly less than ¼-tone – ca. 40 cents.
I Murmuring Morning
* Ossia: Sing vocals, normally. (For details see legend.)
