Nu Komm Der Heyden Heyland - Score and parts
Sheet Music

Double SATB recorders; or double SATB instruments

SKU: MM.EML0304

Composed by Samuel Scheidt. Recorder Sextets etc., Miscellaneous Music. Early Music Library. Christmas Music. Score and Parts. Published by Magnamusic Distributors Inc (MM.EML0304).

Samuel Scheldt's double-choir setting of the Advent chorale "Nu(n) komm der Heiden Heiland" comes from his Cantiones Sacrae Octo Vocum, Hamburg, 1620. As in much of the music in his collection, Scheldt develops motives from the melody with great resourcefulness, without ever losing clarity of diction: melismas are used only where they will not obscure the melody. In the opening section the first phrase appears first in the cantus of chorus I, then the tenor of chorus II, then is developed in simple imitation in several parts.