Mary Ann Joyce
Epithalamion: A Masque
Duration (in minutes): 5-6'39; each
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral, larger chamber ensembles - more than 4 players, mixed instrument ensemble, string quartet
Instruments: any female voice, any male voice, any string, any voice, any woodwind, cello, flute, harp, piano, viola, violin
Score PDF: thou_art_indeed_just_lord-pgs1-8-secure-5.pdf
Description: For string quartet, piano, harp and flute with four vocalists taking on the task of virtuosic solo parts, and a Boys Chorus and a dance ensemble. Each choral work 5-6 minutes, Total: 75 minutes
This major work, Epithalamion: A Masque, settings of poems by G. M. Hopkins, was presented in 1991 as a celebration of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Thou Art Indeed Just,
Spring and Death,
Carrion Comfort,
No Worst, There is None,
My Own Heart,
Duns Scotus’ Oxford,
To Seem the Stranger,
Henry Purcell,
God’s Grandeur,
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark