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1530322

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A Good Understanding (Percussion Part)
by Nico Muhly
Choir Instrumental Pak - Digital Sheet Music

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Artist Nico Muhly
Composer Nico Muhly
Format Digital Ensemble
Arrangement Choir Instrumental Pak
Publisher Wise Music Group
Product ID 1530322

Product Description

A Good Understanding (2005) was written for Tim Brown and the choir of Clare College, Cambridge with the generous cooperation of John Scott and the Boys of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. A Good Understanding, with texts culled from two psalms, is designed to share a program with Rutter's expansive and expressive Mass of the Children. The piece unfolds episodically short choral phrases alternating with longer instrumental interludes. The first half of the text is typical psaltry praise-making: outlining agreements, explaining the rules; the music is, accordingly, severe but practical. The second half of the text begins, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom/a good understanding have all they that do his commandments. I find the idea of a good understanding to be an especially exciting reward for following the rules; the boys sing pulsed syllables and long descants to celebrate the covenant while the choir sings a lilting, repetitive refrain. (Psalm 111, 10). - Nico Muhly