Name: Wessobrunn Creation Prayer by Traditional SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Stephen Lines
Price: 8.99 USD
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Wessobrunn Creation Prayer
by Traditional SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Wessobrunn Creation Prayer

Artist Traditional

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Traditional

Arranger Stephen Lines

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 24

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Stephen Lines

Level 4

Product ID 1053953

Genre Sacred Classical

Instruments Choir

Product Description

The prayer is named after Wessobrunn Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Bavaria, for centuries the repository of the sole manuscript, which is now in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. The date of its composition is put at around 790 or a little later, while the surviving manuscript dates from about 814. The author of the verses is unknown, although from the content and a couple of linguistic features, it seems highly probable that it was composed after an Anglo-Saxon model for use in the Christian missions to the heathen taking place in Germany at this time. The place of origin of the manuscript is also unknown. It was not written in Wessobrunn; a number of Bavarian religious establishments could have produced it, the most likely being Augsburg or Regensburg. The conspicuous oddity in this manuscript of the use of the star-rune as a shorthand symbol for the syllable "ga-" is shared by only one other manuscript, also Bavarian, viz., Arundel MS. 393 in the British Library. This arrangement by Stephen Lines for SATB and organ is highly redolent of the period of the prayer's inception. The final section utilises Aeolian mode.

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