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Cantos Sagrados: SATB and Orchestra Study Score

Composer's Notes:

“In writing this work I wanted to compose something which was both timeless and contemporary, both sacred and secular. The title (Sacred Songs) is therefore slightly misleading as the three poems are concerned with political repression in Latin America and are deliberately coupled with traditional religious texts to emphasise a deeper solidarity with the poor of that sub-continent.

It was my interest in Liberation Theology which made me combine the poems of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina with the texts of the Latin mass in Búsqueda (an earlier music-theatre work) and has now led me to attempt a similar synthesis of ideas in Cantos Sagrados. The voices in Ariel Dorfman's poems belong to those who suffer a particular type of political repression: the 'disappearance' of political prisoners. Ana Maria Mendoza's poem about the Virgin of Guadeloupe tackles the same problem by asking a more fundamental cultural and historical question.”

Details

Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Publisher Code: M060132964
Publication Date: 10/2018
Medium: Softcover
Pages: 68
Length: 11.75 in.
Width: 8.25 in.
Series: Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books
Format: Study Score
ISBN: 1784542563
Voicing: Study Score