The beatitudes : a cantata for soprano and tenor soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra (1961) /

The beatitudes : a cantata for soprano and tenor soloists, SATB chorus and orchestra (1961) /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bliss, Arthur, 1891-1975, composer.
Edition:	Full score.
Imprint:	London : Novello, [2015] ℗2008
Description:	1 score (138 pages) ; 30 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Cantatas, Sacred -- Scores. Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra -- Scores. Beatitudes (Music) Beatitudes (Music) Cantatas, Sacred -- Scores. Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra -- Scores. Cantatas Sacred music. Scores.
Format:	Music score Print
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10391912

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Notes:	Commissioned by the Coventry Cathedral Festival for the opening of the new cathedral in 1962. The texts were compiled by Christopher Hassall. Bliss dedicated the music to his granddaughter. Duration: approximately 50 min. English words. Staff notation.
Standard no.:	5020679158159
Publisher's no.:	NOV295339 Novello

Table of Contents:

Prelude ; A troubled world / [text by] Donne
The Mount of Olives / [text by] Henry Vaughan
First and second beatitudes
Easter
I got me flowers to strew thy way / [text by] George Herbert
Third beatitude
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled / adapted from Isaiah II vv. 10-20
Fourth beatitude
The call / [text by] Henry Vaughan
Orchestra interlude
Fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth beatitudes
And death shall have no dominion / [text by] Dylan Thomas
Ninth beatitude
Revile him! Persecute him!
Epilogue ; O blessed Jesu / [text by] Jeremy Taylor.