• Premiere: December 2016/The Singers/Minneapolis, MN/Matthew Culloton

• Instrumentation: SATB with optional keyboard

• Duration: 3:20'

• Text: Matthew 2:2;  Psalm 72:1-2, 7 KJV

• Appropriate for worship

 

Program Note

Completed February 22, 2009 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.  From a collection of five motets for lesser feasts, this piece features the text traditionally used during communion of the feast of the Transfiguration.  All works in this set employ a similar form - a chanted response alternates with a homophonic setting of a psalm meditation.  The chant and psalm pairing are taken from the Liber Usualis; the traditional chant is used verbatim, while the psalm setting is in a contemporary harmonic vernacular.  Other titles from this set include Give the King thy judgments, Pater si, Qui meditabitur, and Hoc Corpus.