Name: Mary Speaks of Her Son by Victor Labenske Piano & Vocal Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Labenske Music Services
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Mary Speaks of Her Son
by Victor Labenske Piano & Vocal - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Mary Speaks of Her Son

Artist Victor Labenske

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Victor Labenske

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 25

Arrangement Piano & Vocal

Publisher Labenske Music Services

Product ID 940534

Genre Sacred Contemporary Easter Standards

Instruments Piano Voice

Product Description

This song cycle for female voice features poems from Carl Winderls book of Marian poetry, Mary Speaks of Her Son, providing a rich collection from which the composer has chosen five poems to set. Each poem is spoken in the first person by Mary, the mother of Christ.

The composer has used a number of unifying devices throughout the cycle. First, the composer includes quotes from both Gregorian chant (italicized titles) and Protestant hymnody (capitalized hymn tune names) drawing on the influence of the poets early religious instruction; this training came from Winderls two grandmothers who on alternating Sundays took him to both Catholic and Protestant churches. In addition, a "Mary motive" derived from solfege (Ma-ri-A) appears in each song (the cycles opening 3 notes in the vocal line) which coincidentally is the retrograde inversion of Bernsteins "Maria" motive in Westside Story. Finally, references to the cross are represented symbolically with the octatonic pitch set.

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