Keane Southard
Te Lucis Ante Terminum for
a cappella SATB Choir
(2022) (Duration: c. 3 min.)
Program Notes: Te Lucis Ante Terminum for SATB Choir was composed over the course of a week in February 2022. It was written for the Schola Cantorum of Christ Church, Rochester, NY while I was a member of the ensemble. The work explores my fascination with split-third chords—triads which are both major and minor at the same time having both a raised and lowered third present (usually in different octaves). I was surprised to encounter these harmonies in some works of Tallis and Purcell that we sung in the choir, as well as a hallmark in the early works of Andrzej Panufnik who is one of my favorite composers. The challenge I set for myself was to use these dissonant harmonies as much as I could while keeping the work as easy to sing as possible for this prayer of protection during the night.
Performance instructions: 1. Care should be taken so that the measures that are in 3/2 meter but “look” like 6/4 (m. 2, 5, 8, 11, 30, 33, 36, and 39) should be performed as 3/2 with a (slight) sense of syncopation.
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For the Schola Cantorum, Christ Church, Rochester, NY, Stephen Kennedy-director
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