• Instrumentation: SATB unaccompanied (opt. Keyboard) 

• Duration: 2:30'

• Text: Eucharistic benediction attributed to Pope Innocent VI

• Suitable for advanced collegiate and professional choirs 

• Appropriate for worship or concert performance

 

Program Note

 

Completed October 10, 2010 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, this work offers a challenging harmonic workout for advanced collegiate and professional choirs.  Primarily homophonic, the piece briefly breaks into a contrapuntal texture to paint the text "unda fluxit sanguine."