Name: Odi et Amo by Aaron Gage Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Aaron Gage
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Odi et Amo
by Aaron Gage Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Odi et Amo

Artist Aaron Gage

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Aaron Gage

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement Choir

Publisher Aaron Gage

Level 4

Product ID 1414873

Genre Latin A Cappella Renaissance 21st Century

Instruments Choir

Product Description

Written for SSAATTBB Choir.

I have long been fascinated with setting old Latin texts to music; particularly ones outside of the traditional sacred poetry found in the various requiems that have been composed throughout the centuries. Rather, I was particularly drawn to a poem written by the Roman poet Catullus. Simple in nature, the poem is only 3 phrases yet delivers a strong message of the turmoil found in the human psyche. Odi et Amo translates to I hate and I love. The poem embellishes the poets struggle to balance the extremes of the human emotion and how torturous it can be to navigate 2 of our strongest emotions. The call of the opening Odi et Amo is repeated numerous times throughout the piece to drive home the 2 emotions of Hate and Love.

The work commands exceptional precision of intonation between the 8 parts. While slow in nature though its tempo, the piece has numerous harmonic classes of 2nds to create not only tension, but a longing passion desperate for resolution.

-Aaron Gage

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