Aeterna caeli gloria

Vocal score

Forces or Category: SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
This dramatic setting of a 5th-century Ambrosian hymn perfectly epitomises the jubilation of the text. Rhythmically complex and involving some tricky melismatic passages, it is particularly suited to cathedral choirs and concert performance.

Aeterna caeli gloria

Vocal score

Gabriel Jackson

New Horizons

Description

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied
This dramatic setting of a 5th-century Ambrosian hymn perfectly epitomises the jubilation of the text. Rhythmically complex and involving some tricky melismatic passages, it is particularly suited to cathedral choirs and concert performance.

Programme Notes:

Aeterna caeli Gloria is a setting of the first three verses (plus doxology) of a 5th- century Ambrosian hymn, appointed in the Roman Breviary for Friday Lauds. These great Latin hymns are, to my mind, particularly suitable for musical setting â their poetry is rich and the images vivid; because of their regular metre and verse patterns, they can allow the composer to develop a structure that is both derived from the text, yet at the same time independent of it. And there is the

Aeterna caeli gloria

Vocal score

Gabriel Jackson

New Horizons

Composer Information

Gabriel Jackson (b.1962)

One of Britain's foremost composers, after three years as a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, Gabriel Jackson went on to study composition with Richard Blackford and John Lambert at the Royal College of Music. Particularly acclaimed for his choral works, his liturgical pieces are in the repertoires of most of Britain's cathedral and collegiate choirs and he is a frequent collaborator with the leading professional groups of the world. From 2010-2013 he was Associate Composer to the BBC Singers. In 2014 his hour-long The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, commissioned for the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, was premiered in its chapel. May 2015 saw the premiere at the Latvian National Opera of Spring Rounds for soprano, choir and orchestra, commissioned by the Riga-based youth choir Kamer for their 25th anniversary. He was recently commissioned by The Marian Consort to write Stabat Mater to mark their 10th anniversary. Gabriel Jackson's website