Stabat Mater : adaptation by Koerber : for SATB Choir (Good Friday)

francis

Story:

I was praying the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday. I got to the 14th Station and blam, this melody dropped on me like a rock as I meditated on Jesus being laid in the Sepulchre. After finishing praying the stations I quickly jotted down the melody and the harmony of the opening lines. The melody contains some strands of the traditional chant. I started fleshing this out on Easter week... (not a work I expected to take upon myself in Easter week, but I was moved to do so just the same.) It is not finished, but here is a preview of the piece in its half unfinished state... there are eight verses left to add.

In order to capture the tempo and the pathos of this demo I played it live on a keyboard.

http://www.myopus.com/preview/stabatMaterKoerber.mp4

CHGiffen

This is already quite moving! Thank you for sharing what you've already done, and I look forward to the finished piece.

Dixit_Dominus_44

Francis, in my view, what you've done here is quite beautiful and quite remarkable.

francis

hope to finish this week

francis

Finished this Saturday. Will post soon.

dad29

As Roger Wagner said to Robert Shaw: "You have good ........STUFF!"

NihilNominis

The harmony from m. 21 on becomes so rich and exciting. Thank you for sharing this beautiful work.

francis

final version... a few manuscript errors left to clean up and a few audio delays and mishaps.

http://myopus.com/preview/koerberStabatMater.mp4

Richard Mix

Happy to see underlay added; isn't the meter 3/2?

francis

RM

Yes, you can reduce the fraction if you would like.

What is an underlay?

Richard Mix

Short for text underlay; in the short-score case I suppose I should have said 'overlay'.

francis

Am polishing for publishing. (putting in 3/2 time too)

francis

Found this recently and decided to give it to the world as a gift instead of selling it as a pub, compliments of MyOpus. I feel it is urgent that as many people sing this as possible in reparation to the IHM.

Perhaps for the 5th Friday in Lent or for Good Friday.

francis

bump

francis

flute simulation...

(...emoting the condition of our present state of affairs...)

bhcordova

francis, I just came across this! This is beautiful! Thanks for gifting it to us!

francis

bumping since Lent is fast approaching...

francis

bumping again... has anyone ever used this for Stations or a meditation during lent?

Tried to upload file here with no success...

Hosted on my webserver here.

http://www.myopus.com/preview/stabatMater2023.mp4

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