Cecilia Virgo
by Gabriel Jackson
4-Part - Sheet Music

6 soprano voices, 6 alto voices 6 tenor voices and 6 bass voices, unaccompanied (SATB) - Difficult

SKU: OU.9780193439085

Composed by Gabriel Jackson. Sacred choral - mixed voices. New Horizons. Sacred, Choral Leaflet. Vocal score. 32 pages. Duration 8'. Oxford University Press #9780193439085. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193439085).

ISBN 9780193439085. 11 x 7 inches.

For 6S 6A 6T 6B unaccompanied. This expansive piece requiring 24 singers sets an anonymous 16th-century text of supplication to St Cecilia. From the cascading imitation of its opening to the monolithic triads of its close, it remains spellbinding and invokes a powerful sense of the divine. Inspired by the great motets of the Eton Choir Book, this is seriously beautiful music with particular appeal for committed choirs.

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