A Prayer To St John The Baptist

Media Type: Vocal Score Media/Arrangement: Mixed Choir [SATB] and Organ Publisher: Oxford University Press Order Code: 9780193527836

Product Description

A Prayer to St John the Baptist by Cecilia McDowall for SATB and Organ.

Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast sung by the choir of St John's College, Cambridge, A Prayer to St John theBaptist sets an artfully crafted text that combines Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn to John the Baptist, as well as a medieval music-teaching mnemonic) with Thomas Merton's poem on the same subject. TheOrgan's flowing quavers represent Merton's baptismal 'rivers of water', while the largely octatonic melodies conjure a tellingly mysterious atmosphere.