In Bedlem, That Fayer Cyte
SATB and Organ
Choir - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Choir
Ensembles
Choir
Genres
Christmas Carols
Classical
Publishers
Peermusic Classical
Formats
Octavo
Item Types
Physical
Usages
School and Community

SKU: HL.346013

SATB and Organ. Composed by Simon Frisch. Peermusic Classical. Choral. Octavo. 12 pages. Peermusic Classical #70292-122. Published by Peermusic Classical (HL.346013).

ISBN 9781540093240. UPC: 840126921489. 6.75x10.5x0.044 inches.

In Bedlem, that fayer cyte is an anonymous 15th century carol that intersperses the Latin opening lines of various psalms into an evocative account of Christ's birth. The extreme emotional contours - from casual narrative, to terror (the slaughter of the innocents), to a gentle image of Mary, to celebration - are given a musical through line in variants on the first verse's melody, with alternating emphasis on sparse and full choral textures. The psalm lines, intoned by a soloist, form a second-level narrative of an increasingly intense heavenly light over the terrestrial verses. Particularly poetic is the analogy of the sun shining through glass without shattering to the immaculate conception of Mary, sung tenderly by the men.