O Virgo Virginum (mp3) by David Warin Solomons - Choir - Digital Sheet Music

Details

Instruments: Choir
Ensembles: Choir
Genres: Spirituals; Christmas; 20th Century; Contemporary; Contemporary Christian
Composers: David Warin Solomons
Series: ArrangeMe
ArrangeMe: David Warin Solomons
Formats: Performance MP3
Item Types: Digital
Usages: Blessed Virgin Mary; School and Community

Description

Choir,Organ - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1059534

Composed by David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Christmas,Contemporary,Spiritual. Full Performance. Duration 182. David Warin Solomons #3408963. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1059534).

Score:
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O Virgo Virginum performed by the Johannebergs Vokalensemble

This is a setting of a poem by The Reverend Doctor Malcolm Guite, Chaplain of Girton College Cambridge,

with his permission.

The poem is a response to the 8th "O Antiphon" for Advent

(O Virgo virginum, quomodo fiet istud?

Quia nec primam similem visa es nec habere sequentem.

Filiae Jerusalem, quid me admiramini?

Divinum est mysterium hoc quod cernitis.)

O Virgin of virgins, how shall this be?

For neither before thee was any like thee, nor shall there be after.

Daughters of Jerusalem, why marvel ye at me?

The thing which ye behold is a divine mystery.

Who are the daughters of Jerusalem,

Who glimpse you still as you transform their seeing?

Whom have you called to this mysterium,

And bathed in the blithe fountain of your being?

Daughters of sorrow, daughters of despair,

The cast-aside, the overlooked, the spurned

The broken girls who scarcely breathe a prayer

The ones whose love has never been returned.

O Maid amongst the maidens, turn your face,

For when we glimpse you we are not alone,

O look us out of grief and into grace,

Lift us in love made stronger than our own,

Summon the spring in our worst wilderness,

And make us fruitful in your fruitfulness.

(c) Malcom Guite

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