James MacMillan
In Carmel's Shade
for mixed choir (SATB) and organ
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James MacMillan
In Carmel's Shade
for mixed choir (SATB) and organ
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Organ
- Composer James MacMillan
- Series Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Organ Score
- Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
- Order no. BH14200
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Description:
This is an approachable and affecting setting of a devotional poem by the revered Carmelite nun St Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97). The choral writing, marked ‘placid’, comprises simple four-part homophony. The organ part weaves a limpid, measured monophonic line, representing the lyre of the poem, and is scored for manuals, save for one sustained pedal note. The piece slowly builds from its soft commencement to a fortissimo climax at ‘consume away’ before falling away to soft, unison monotones for the final line.