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Sonnet 126

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 28, 2021
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In this, the final work in the sequence of sonnets directed towards a fair youth, Shakespeare reflects upon time and decay… For SATB choir or SATB soloists.

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Porch Scribbles

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 28, 2021
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This setting of a poem by Allen Ginsberg was written for the vocal trio Juice for a workshop performance at Cardiff University on 27th November 2007. The music attempts to reflect the various…

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Read more about the article A Birthday

A Birthday

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 27, 2021
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Lyrics: My heart is like a singing birdWhose nest is in a water'd shoot;My heart is like an apple-treeWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;My heart is like a rainbow…

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Read more about the article Baptismal Sentences

Baptismal Sentences

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 27, 2021
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For George Albert William Owen Thomas Commissioned by Fr. Paul Thomas for St. James’s Church, Sussex Gardens. The texts is adapted from two sections of the 1662 baptismal service: Be stedfast…

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Read more about the article Three Tantum Ergos

Three Tantum Ergos

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 27, 2021
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Commissioned by Fr. Paul Thomas for St. James’s Church, Sussex Gardens. Tantum ergo SacramentumVeneremur cernui:Et antiquum documentumNovo cedat ritui:Præstet fides supplementumSensuum defectui. Genitori, GenitoqueLaus et iubilatio,Salus, honor, virtus quoqueSit et…

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Sing We To This Merry Company

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 19, 2021
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Commissioned by St. James's Church, Sussex Gardens Text: Sing we to this merry company: Regina caeli, laetare! Holy Maid, blessed thou be;The Son of God is born of thee,The Father…

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Missa Veni, Veni Emmanuel

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:November 28, 2021
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Commissioned by Fr Paul Thomas for St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens. Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison. Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth. Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.…

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