Beatitude VIII: Beati pacifici (Blessed are the peacemakers)
by Howard Goodall
Divisi - Sheet Music

Solo, SS choir divisi, cello, organ, and handbells - Early Intermediate

SKU: MN.56-0030

Composed by Howard Goodall. 21st Century. Instrument parts. Duration 5 minutes, 58 seconds. MorningStar Music Publishers #56-0030. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.56-0030).

UPC: 688670220357. Latin. Matthew 5:3-11.

Written for the Enchanted Voices CD, this is one of many settings of texts either from the Beatitudes (or springing from them) available from this composer. For soloist, SS chorus (divisi), organ, cello, and handbells, the music has a light, ethereal feeling. A unison chant-line begins the piece unaccompanied. The organ enters with a drone as the chant continues. At the text “vocabuntur (called)” the voices split into three parts in a beautiful moment of radiance. There is a cello solo (13 measures) which restates the chant melody. The voice enter wordlessly as the cello continues. Finally, the chant melody reappears in the voices, in canon, as the music ends. Duration 5:58

 

Instrumentalists play from the choral score.