Description
- Composer: Reena Esmail (1983-)
- Instrumentation: SATB Choir
- Work: A Winter Breviary
- Binding: Paperback
- Work Language: English
- ISBN: 9780193561908
- Size: 7.0 x 10.0 inches
- Pages: 16
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The three movements of A Winter Breviary are entitled: ‘We look for you’, ‘The year’s midnight’, and ‘The unexpected early hour’. The movements are each based on an Indian classical Raag: Raag Hamsadhwani, Raag Malkauns, and Raag Ahir Bhairav, respectively. The texts, by poet Rebecca Gayle Howell, are linked to the Christian services of Evensong, Matins, and Lauds, and are eco-carols written from the perspective of a different point in time-evening, midnight, and daybreak-using nature to explore a different part of the Christmas story. The first two movements have a serene and pensive atmosphere that contrasts with the third movement, which uses an energetic compound time signature and bell-like melodic shapes.
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