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Catalogue Number Duration Format  
  PEL2003 8:00 mins SATB/piano
choral octavo
 
  Level of Difficulty Pages Music Copyright Year  
  Easy 14 pages

16 page book
with four -page cover
1991  
  Perusal Score PDF  
 
Description/Remarks

An innovative juxtaposition of ethereal Gregorian chant and rhythmic African song. With the rolling piano accompaniment that has become a Halley trademark.
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This Gregorian chant- 'Where there is love, there is God – has been in my life since I was ten years old as a choir boy.  I sang a setting of it by Durufle, who is one of my favorite twentieth-century composers.  Both the words and the music have tremendous universal appeal.  I tried to bring out the inherent power and optimism of the Gregorian Chant by juxtaposing it with the chant of another culture.  Sometimes we need to look at the obvious through other people’s eyes.  It was Russ Landau’s persistence and tenacity that got the piece recorded properly, and with the appropriate groups at the Cathedral in New York.

                There is a wonderful kind of upstairs/downstairs scenario at the Cathedral.  There is the daily round of services in the church itself, while below in the crypt all these groups are doing their own form of worship – whether in the soup kitchen, the gymnasium, the theater, or the studios. One of the downstairs groups is called “The Forces Of Nature”, an African chant group of great power and vibrancy.  Occasionally during a service we’d be in the middle of some sublime Gregorian chant, when we would hear “Forces Of Nature” start up their rehearsal with some intense drumming, giving us some stiff competition! At the time, it irritated me.  Now it is one of my favorite combinations."   - Paul Halley, 1991



 

   
 


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Voicing/Instrumentation

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Festival
Concert
Alt. Service Anthem

  SATB and Piano
Optional percussion, bass, organ
Optional soprano Sax and cello
Recording
Angel On A Stone Wall CD LM81522CD - Track 09
 



LM81522 CD $16.98

 
 

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Item Description

Price Buy Now  
 

PEL2003 SATB



PEL2003 FS/IP





PEL2003 Opt

  Choral score SATB/piano  
Choral Score Order Min: 12
(except in Sampler)


Full Score and Instrumental Parts
for Bass/Guitar, Percussion, Organ
THIS ITEM ONLY AVAILABLE WITH PURCHASE OF 25 CHORAL SCORES MINIMUM.

Optional Parts for Soprano Sax and Cello
THIS ITEM ONLY AVAILABLE WITH FULL SCORE AND PARTS ABOVE.

 
$4.20 ($3.78)



$60.00





$18.00

SATB Score Min: 12


Full Score & Parts
Requires 25 choral scores minimum.



Optional Parts
Requires Full Score and Parts above.
 
     

Texts and Translations


Latin chant from Maundy Thursday Rite:

Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est.

Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.

Where there is charity and love, God is there.
The love of Christ has gathered us together.

      

African chant by Abdel Salaam,
Yoruba & Khemitic texts:

Oba ye, Oba yo batala.
Oba ye, Oba yo O batala.
Oba ye, Oba yo Yemanja.
Oba ye, Oba yo O Yemanja.
Oba ye, Oba yo O Ra ausar.

Praises to Obatala, ruler of the Heavens.
Praises to Yemenja, ruler of the waters of life.
Praises to Ra and Ausar, rulers of the light and the resurrected soul.

 

Amazing Grace by John Newton  

Amazing grace!
How sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost
But now am found,
Was blind but now I see.