Te Deum (2010, rev. 2025)
SSAA, Organ or SATB, Organ
Commissioned by Patrick Craig for Aurora Nova.
Duration:
9′
First performance:
(SSAA) 02 January 2011
Aurora Nova, Patrick Craig, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, UK.
(SATB – recording)10-11 January 2013
Choir of Selwyn College Cambridge, Sarah MacDonald, Onyx Brass, Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK
Score
Programme note
My setting of the Te Deum is a relatively simple piece, largely homophonic, with greater emphasis being placed on the ‘effect’ of the words and music combined, rather than any strong liturgical impulse. The work revolves around a strong Lydian mode on G (with a flattened seventh) which colours all the harmony in the piece and provides much of the harmonic drive.
PAC
