Silent Night by Mark Hewitt Sheet Music for Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Mark Hewitt

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Mark Hewitt

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 16

Arrangement Choir

Publisher Mark Hewitt

Level 5

Product ID 1687726

Genre Christmas Classical A Cappella 21st Century Contemporary A Cappella

Instruments Choir

Product Description

Programme note by the composer:
'Silent Night' is an iconic Christmas melody, known to millions as a simple lullaby. However, the imagery of the text has prompted from me a more elaborate musical setting. My response is akin to the those Renaissance paintings of the Nativity which do not portray the holy family as poor people in humble surroundings but rather as royal, opulent in colour and regal in manner. I have sought to capture a sense of calm but also of radiance, the music ringing out the joy of Christ's birth. The original melody by Franz Gruber is not present throughout the piece but is hinted at in verses 1, 2 and then emerges complete in the third and fourth verses.

Mark Hewitt
Crewkerne, Somerset, August 2015

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