Program Notes

Title: Ascendit Deus in Jubilatione

Genre: Choral Music

Instrumentation: SATB, organ, bass drum, brass choir (3*321).

* One piccolo trumpet in A and two B-flat trumpets.

Text: Psalms 47 and 109 (excerpts): the offertory appointed for the Feast of the Ascension

Language: Latin

Duration: ca 5'

Description: This is a concert setting of the Ascension text, although it could certainly be performed in the context of a worship service given resources and time. The grandeur of the refrain is mirrored in fanfare-like flourishes in the trumpets and long pedal points in the organ. Octatonic writing is featured for the "jubilatione" text and for the alleluias.

Note that the 5-part brass choir includes a piccolo trumpet in A.

Items: The product download includes one full score only, watermarked for perusal. To obtain an unmarked score and a full set of parts, see the main catalog entry.