Morten Lauridsen
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
Morten Lauridsen
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir
- Composer Morten Lauridsen
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Peer Musikverlag
- Order no. PEER3676
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Description:
These two anthems are examples of Lauridsen's style in embryo, as it were, for both were written while the composer was just twenty-seven years old. Both anthems evince the contrapuntal mastery that would prove an enduring featureof the composer's technique. The pure and austere lines of I will lift up mine eyes, an a cappella setting of Psalm 121, evoke ancient organum and the imitative devices of Medieval polyphony. Complex chord structures and elaboratecanonic procedures give O come, let us sing unto the Lord a sense of inexorable forward momentum. The coruscating organ part further enhances the prevailing mood of joy that pervades this anthem. --Byron Adams