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