"Te Lucis Ante Terminum" for SATB Choir

Keane Southard

Te Lucis Ante Terminum for

a cappella SATB Choir

(2022) (Duration: c. 3 min.)

Program Notes: Te Lucis Ante Terminum for SATB Choir was composed over the course of a week in February 2022. It was written for the Schola Cantorum of Christ Church, Rochester, NY while I was a member of the ensemble. The work explores my fascination with split-third chords—triads which are both major and minor at the same time having both a raised and lowered third present (usually in different octaves). I was surprised to encounter these harmonies in some works of Tallis and Purcell that we sung in the choir, as well as a hallmark in the early works of Andrzej Panufnik who is one of my favorite composers. The challenge I set for myself was to use these dissonant harmonies as much as I could while keeping the work as easy to sing as possible for this prayer of protection during the night.

Performance instructions: 1. Care should be taken so that the measures that are in 3/2 meter but “look” like 6/4 (m. 2, 5, 8, 11, 30, 33, 36, and 39) should be performed as 3/2 with a (slight) sense of syncopation.

Keane Southard/Spindrift Pages Email: keane.southard@hotmail.com Website: keanesouthard.com

For the Schola Cantorum, Christ Church, Rochester, NY, Stephen Kennedy-director

Te Lucis Ante Terminum   SOPRANO   ALTO

TENOR

gli altri BASS

     



  



 1-3  singers 

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Te

5

S.

p

T.

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lu - cis an

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te

ter - mi

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lu - cis an

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te

ter - mi

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so - li - ta

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cle - men - ti -

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cle - men - ti -

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cle - men - ti -

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



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A.

Keane Southard

q = 66

mp

 

Ut

so - li - ta

mp



            

cle - men - ti -

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A.

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p

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ff

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      13

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A 16

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ce

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

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so

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      

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poco rit.

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so

    

19

S.

dant

   

    ho - stem - que p

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    ho - stem - que p

ho - stem - que p



 

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       

ho - stem - que

  

no - strum com - pri

   

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

 

no - strum com - pri

-

     me

 -

-

ne



me

 

me



4

            22

S.

f

   

pol - lu - an - tur

cor - po

  

-

ra,

-



f

        

A.

 

pol - lu - an - tur

f

    ne

T.

f

B.



   ne

cor - po

 

pol - lu - an - tur

cor - po

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 

pol - lu - an - tur

cor - po

    ne

ra,

  

       

ne



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 

ne

pol - lu - an - tur



     

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pol - lu - an - tur

-

 

   

ra,

ne

pol - lu - an -

      -

ra,



  

ne

pol - lu - an -

rit.

25

S.

   

cor - po

     cor - po

A.

B.



-

ra,

-





 

tur

cor - po

   

   

tur

cor - po

   cor - po



ra,

 

 

T.

 

-

-

ra,

 

-

ra,





 

cor - po

-

 

ra,

cor - po



   

ra,

cor - po

cor - po



-

-

ra.

 

-

ra.





 

cor - po

-

  

ra,

cor - po



   

ra,

cor - po

-

-

B pp

  1-3    singers  28

Prae

pp

   

S. gli altri

pp

  

A.





-

sta

 





 

pp pp               Prae - sta,

Pat - ter

om - ni - po

om - ni - po

mp

  

te -

-

-

    

   



mp

 

   

 

    

   Je - sum Chri - stum  

 

Do - mi

p

-

   

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Do - mi

num,

num,

p   -

num,

Per

cum



-

p  



 

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Per

  

    

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 



   

p



Per p

tens,

 





tens,









p

mp

      Qui



Pa - ter

sum



    

S.









Je -

pp

Prae - sta,

 p  

B.



             

33

T.



Per

    ra.

ra.

A.

p      

  



pp

pp

B.

pp

   



pp

T.

5

Tempo I (q = 66)

Qui mp

te - cum in

Qui

te - cum in

   

mp

Qui

te - cum in

mp

  

 

Qui

te - cum in

per - pe - tu -

    



   



per - pe - tu -

per - pe - tu -

    per - pe - tu -



6

molto rit.

38

   

mf

mf

 

 

Re

gnat

-

Spi - ri

-

S. mp

  

A.

   

Re - gnat cum Sanc - to

mp

mf

  

mp

    um mp

  B.  

um





 

       

 

   

Spi - ri

A - men.

pp

tu.

A - men.

Spi - ri

 

A - men.

ff

pp

ff



-

  

tu.

Spi - ri - tu.

    

Re - gnat cum Sanc - to

pp

     

ff

-

 

ff

     

Re - gnat cum Sanc - to

mf

-

   

Re - gnat cum Sanc - to

mf

Spi - ri

tu.

       

    

um

um

T.

 

mf

pp

   

      Sanc - to

ff

tu.

   

 

A - men.

pp

   

 

A - men.