Hodie Christus Natus Est (2023)

Mixed Choir (SATB) & Optional Tambourine

Duration:
2′ 30’’

First Performance:
27 November 2023
Siglo De Oro, Spinacino Consort, Patrick Allies, King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen, UK

American Premiere:
05 January 2024
BonaVox, MaryKate F. Core, Our Lady Help of Christians, Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA


Score


Programme note

Hodie Christus Natus Est is a homage to that particularly ‘rustic’ element in early medieval church music, where elements of the pre-Christian and Christian rites seemed to coexist in a beguiling symbiosis. The work aims to blend a folksy, communal dance element with more traditional choral writing. It is a light-hearted piece, and the score could be used as a blueprint to a more extreme version of what is composed where the ‘pagan’ aspects of the work could be exaggerated to great effect.  

PAC

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