Conserva me, Domine
for SATB Choir
4-Part - Sheet Music

Choir Sacred SATB choir a cappella (SATB choir)

SKU: PE.NDC038

For SATB Choir. Composed by Clemens (non Papa). Edited by Ralph Buxton. Liturgical Use: Lent; Penitential Seasons. Text: Latin. Renaissance. Choral Octavo. 12 pages. Duration ca. 5 minutes. Notre Dame Choir Editions #98-NDC038. Published by Notre Dame Choir Editions (PE.NDC038).

Lat.

The text of this affecting composition was assembled using stray verses from a half-dozen separate passages from the Bible, mostly psalms. In setting this unusual text, the composer assigns the top voice a different key signature from the lower three voices, the practice known as "partial signatures". The musical result is a kind of poly-modality which heightens the harmonic and melodic urgency in the musical expression of the text's fervent plea.