Alleluia, pascha nostrum - M. Taylor
  • m_r_taylor
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    Recording and score. This is five years old, written as the recessional for an Easter-season wedding. It's probably my most American-sounding piece. Looking back on this, I'm particularly fond of the middle section. The choir takes the tempo slower than I'd envisioned, but the church was so reverberant it would have been difficult to go any faster.
    A Wedding Alleluia.pdf
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    Alleluia pascha nostrum.mp3
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    Thanked by 5CHGiffen JonathanKK Mattspmusic0320 M. Jackson Osborn sdtalley3
  • m_r_taylor
    Posts: 325
    Bumping for season...a little late for the planners, but still. We are planning on using the middle B section as a 2-minute Communion motet in the coming weeks - Pascha nostrum immolatum est Christus, which starts at 1:37.
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen Andrew_Malton M. Jackson Osborn
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    This is really nice.
    Hints of early medieaval polyphony - hocket and all.
    You have admirably captured the spirit of the Pascha nostrum chant - which has always seemed to me to be a remarkable synthesis of grief and unbound joy.
    Thanked by 1m_r_taylor
  • sdtalley3sdtalley3
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    I agree with MJO about this, very nice, and I appreciate that it echoes back to works like Perotin Le Grand.
    Thanked by 1m_r_taylor
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