- Nico Muhly
First Service (2004)
(Magnificat and Nunc dimittis)- St. Rose Music Publishing (World)
Commissioned by Clare College and Girton College
Commissioned by Clare College and Girton College
- organ
- SATB
- 8 min
- Scripture from the King James Bible
Programme Note
The Magnificat features an anxious two-note octave in the organ, nervously twitching in anticipation. The Nunc Dimittis (which is one of my favorite things written in the English language) starts slowly, and then focuses all of its energy towards the beginning of the Gloria Patri, a New Testament harmonic culling of everything that has come before it.
Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly
Media
First Service: 1. Magnificat
First Service: 2. Nunc Dimittis