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  • Nico Muhly

  • Like as the Hart (2004)

  • St. Rose Music Publishing (World)
  • Violin, percussion
  • SATB
  • 6 min

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Like as the Hart is my response to Herbert Howells’s more famous setting of this Psalm paraphrase. I have always been obsessed with the length of Howells's melodies and the way that the harmonies trail behind the tunes like halos. In my version, I invert this relationship, with massive elongated harmonies dragging melodic fragments behind them. I arranged the harmonies in a large arch form with shrinking and expanding rhythms on either side of the central point (on the word ‘God’).

Nico Muhly





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