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O Magnum Mysterium - by Paul Halley
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  Catalogue Number -
 PEL2075 SATB

Voicing/Instrumentation -
SATB Choir Unaccompanied

Level of Difficulty - Moderate

 Uses/Season -
Christmas Concert or Service,
Service of Nine Lessons and Carols		 Duration -
 4:00 mins

Pages Music -
9 pages - 16 page booklet		 Format -
 SATB unaccompanied choral octavo
(piano reduction)

Copyright Year - 2010

perusal score
SATB perusal - pages 1-2 of 9		  
 
Description/Remarks
A rich and atmospheric setting of the text from the Matins Responsory for Christmas. For SATB choir unaccompanied (some divisi). The lyrical melody has Eastern overtones and nuances, very appropriate to the text. Mystery and wonder evoked in music. Commissioned for The Service of Nine Lessons and Carols.
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 Commissioned by the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC,
Michael Gormley, Director of Music

"And the 'O Magnum Mysterium'...superlatives escape me." - I. Wilkinson

"Everyone on the planet should hear your 'Magnum'. It is the best hope that the world has." - Fr. G. Thorne





Youtube video of this music on the University of King's College Chapel Choir channel - Paul Halley, director.  "O Magnum Mysterium" by Paul Halley - live recording from 'A King's Christmas 2015' - starts at 1:00:30 - four minutes to 1:04:30.


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Listen to live recording of "A King's Christmas 2015" performance below on youtube.		  
 
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  Text and Translation
O Magnum Mysterium

Words Matins Responsory - Christmas
 Music:  Paul Halley


Latin Text:

O magnum mysterium
et admirabile sacramentum,
ut animalia viderent Dominum natum,
jacentem in praesepio.
O beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt
portare Dominum Jesum Christum.
Alleluia!

English Translation:

O great mystery,
and wondrous sacrament,
that animals should see the Lord,
new-born, lying in their manger!
Blessed is the virgin whose womb
was worthy to bear the Lord Jesus Christ.
Alleluia