Joelle Wallach
PSALM 23
Year: 2004
Difficulty: High (professional)
Category: choral, orchestra and chamber orchestra, solo woodwind instrument, string ensemble, string orchestra
Instruments: alto, any female voice, any male voice, baritone voice, bass voice, cello, contrabass, flute, oboe, organ, soprano, tenor voice, viola, violin
Publisher: Joelle Wallach
Publisher website: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-xxiii/
Score PDF: PSALM-23-Both-orch-organ-ScoresTitles.pdf
Text PDF: Psalm-23-King-James-Text.pdf
Purchase score URL: https://joellewallach.com/composition/psalm-xxiii/
Description: Joelle Wallach’s setting of the 23rd Psalm is based just a little loosely on the King James’ translation of the Bible, and uses the oboe or flute to evoke a shepherd’s pipe as the organ or strings create a peaceful, verdant landscape in which the voices can sing a gentle and confident hymn, creating a slightly asymmetrical shape from the strict parallelisms of the structure of the verse.