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Database: Notations / Scores
Category: Play In Small Groups
Sub category: Trombones
Art.-No.: 1320978
Title of composition: O QUAM SAUVIS EST
Composer: BYRD, WILLIAM
Arrangeur: HARRIS, JOSEPH
Appearance year: 2013
Grade of difficulty: 4 (Difficult)
Kind of orchestra: 4 TRB
Hint for kind of orchestra: ALT-TRB / 2 TRB / BASS-TRB
Publisher: Resonata Music Ltd
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Additional information: Along with the Cantiones Sacrae of the late sixteenth century, William Byrd’s two sets of Gradualia are a towering achievement of renaissance polyphony and epitomise the English style.  Dedicated to Byrd’s patron Sir John Petre and the Catholic recusant community of which Byrd was a prominent member, the motets of the Gradualia are concise settings of the Proprium Missae for the major feasts of the church calendar.
This contemplative work, written for Corpus Christi, is markedly different from the preceding pieces in the collection.  It is considerably longer, and represents the composer at the height of his powers, the word painting rivalling the tone poets of the twentieth century.  The opening  chromatic section is imbued with a deep sense of piety thanks to the unsettling chord progression leading up to the first cadence.  This uncertain movement of harmony and delayed resolution continues throughout and ultimately means that the closing bars are some of the most emotionally satisfying Byrd wrote.
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