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Symphony: 'Vigil' - Third Part of the Orchestral Triptych Triduum
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Symphony: 'Vigil' - Third Part of the Orchestral Triptych Triduum Hawkes Pocket Score 1552 by James Macmillan Orchestra - Sheet Music

By James Macmillan
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Symphony: 'Vigil' - Third Part of the Orchestral Triptych Triduum by James Macmillan Orchestra - Sheet Music
Orchestra, Score (Study Score)

SKU: HL.48024125

Hawkes Pocket Score 1552. Composed by James Macmillan. Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books. Classical. Softcover. 162 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060132131. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024125).

ISBN 9781784542047. UPC: 888680708955. 8.25x11.75 inches. Hawkes Pocket Score 1552.

Symphony: 'Vigil' (1997) is the last of three interrelated works forming Triduum, commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra, the other works being The World's Ransoming, for cor anglais and orchestra, and the Cello Concerto (both 1996). All three relate to the historical events and religious liturgies of the Easter Triduum, namely Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil. The symphony's first movement, 'Light,' deals with the promise of a glimmer of light in the darkness. The central movement, 'Tuba insonet salutaris' (Sound the trumpet of salvation), is based on the Exsultet melody sung at the Easter Vigil, described by Mozart as probably the most beautiful ever written. The final movement, 'Water,' opens savagely but subsides towards the presentation of two conflicting principal materials – a wild, ecstatic dance followed by a slower, more mysterious texture, leading to a climax and a luminous, floating close. Suitable for advanced standard performers.

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