Geoffrey Burgon
Hymn To St Thomas of Hereford
Vocal Score
Geoffrey Burgon
Hymn To St Thomas of Hereford
Vocal Score
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
- Composer Geoffrey Burgon
- Edition Piano Reduction
- Publisher Chester Music
- Order no. CH55437
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Description:
Composed in 1981, this work is a setting of a sequence from the Mass for the Feast of St Thomas, found in the missal of the Hereford use.
The text is a conventional hymn of praise but it is distinguished by a lively and attractive rhythm, and as this rhythm would have been lost in translation, I have set it in the original Latin.
The work is in the form of theme and variations and is characterised by a gradual crescendo throughout. It begins very quietly with solo timpani and then the choir sing the theme in unison, unaccompanied by flutes, bells, timpani and lower strings.