On yesternight I saw a sight Gareth Treseder

Titel (DE): On yesternight I saw a sight -
Titel (EN): On yesternight I saw a sight -
Titel (FR): On yesternight I saw a sight -
Komponist / Composer: Treseder, Gareth
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Besetzung / Instrumentation: Chor (SSAA) a cappella / choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Aufführungsdauer / Duration: 2'
Verlag / Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Erscheindungsdatum / Date of Publishing: 05.08.2020
Ausgabe / Publication: Chorpartitur - Choral score - mit Klavierbegleitung zu Probenzwecken
with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only - - -
Seiten / Pages: 12
Verarbeitung: Rückendrahtheftung - Saddle-wire stitching
Schwierigkeitsgrad / Difficulty: fortgeschritten - advanced - avancé
Sprache / Language: Englisch
Reihe / Series: Contemporary Choral Series
ISMN: M-060-13713-6
ISMN-13: 979-0-060-13713-6
ISMN-EAN: 9790060137136
UPC: 840126947229

Composer's note: On yesternight I saw a sight was set as a means of thanking Jo Tomlinson for promoting and recording my music with the excellent choristers of Farnham Youth Choir. Knowing that the group's ethos is to memorise the music, I intentionally set the text in a strophic fashion in which the odd-numbered verses act as a unison chorus that later forms a round. The text is inherently rhythmical and joyous. To my mind, it could only be a 12/8 jig reminiscent of a traditional folk dance. For the work's final exclamation, I originally added Noel to the text. However, singing the final letter of this word while singing a top A is unnecessarily difficult. Thus I instead set the medieval Latin term, Noe. By happy coincidence, this rhymes with the last two words of the sixth verse. The final chorus - harmonised for the first time and accompanied by a descant hurriedly asks for God's grace in these ever uncertain times so that he may be born in us today. - Gareth Treseder -

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Composer's note: On yesternight I saw a sight was set as a means of thanking Jo Tomlinson for promoting and recording my music with the excellent choristers of Farnham Youth Choir. Knowing that the group's ethos is to memorise the music, I intentionally set the text in a strophic fashion in which the odd-numbered verses act as a unison chorus that later forms a round. The text is inherently rhythmical and joyous. To my mind, it could only be a 12/8 jig reminiscent of a traditional folk dance. For the work's final exclamation, I originally added Noel to the text. However, singing the final letter of this word while singing a top A is unnecessarily difficult. Thus I instead set the medieval Latin term, Noe. By happy coincidence, this rhymes with the last two words of the sixth verse. The final chorus - harmonised for the first time and accompanied by a descant hurriedly asks for God's grace in these ever uncertain times so that he may be born in us today. - Gareth Treseder -

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