Robert White
Lamentations
Robert White
Lamentations
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SSATB)
- Composer Robert White
- Series Musica dei Donum
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Order no. 9780193804913
Description:
For SSATB unaccompanied - While perhaps Tallis and Byrd's Lamentations are better known, Robert White's Lamentations reflects a uniquely bleak and austere vision and is surely one of the composer's finest works. David Wulstan writes: 'This grief-stricken music is spellbinding. ' Set for five voices, the melancholy sound moves between expressive contrapuntal writing and block chords, offering some remarkably bold harmonic shifts and revealing an exceptional depth of emotion. In keeping with the high standards of the previous Musica Dei Donum editions, this edition has a running translation atop each system to facilitate performance. White's Lamentations is well suited for any good church choir or amateur or college chorus in a concert setting.