Cecilia McDowall Catalogue

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Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred Adoro te devote SSATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193408272 Setting part of a Eucharistic hymn text by Thomas Aquinas, this piece is flowing and expressive. It features homophonic sections, melismatic lines, and optional soaring soprano solos. Adoro te devote is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Nepalese Earthquake in 2015. 4 minutes Alma Redemptoris Mater SSATBB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193378339 This is a beautiful six-part unaccompanied Marian motet written for the Marian Consort. The work combines reminiscences of Renaissance settings of this text with McDowall’s distinctive contemporary voice. 4.5 minutes Ash Wednesday SATB and organ Vocal score 9780193524200 Digital 9780193538528 Ash Wednesday sets typically fervent verses by Christina Rossetti. The vocal lines are mostly simple and affecting, with some highly individual harmonies, while the organ part is by turns expressive and showy. 5 minutes Aurea luce SATB (with divisions) and organ Vocal score 9780193378063 Commissioned and first performed by the choir of Liverpool Cathedral, this anthem is ideal for use during the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. The choral lines move between sonorous homophonic writing and vibrant imitative passages, and are underpinned by a repeated quaver motif in the organ, combining a sense of joy with moments of reflection. 4.5 minutes Ave Maria SSA unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193355569 Digital 9780193535770 This is the second and most intimate of the composer’s Three Latin Motets. Scored for upper voices, this gentle supplication to the Virgin is built on a plainchant opening, and contains expressive dissonances and suspensions in a setting of great purity and directness. 2 minutes Ave Regina SSATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193355576 The first of Three Latin Motets, ‘Ave Regina’ is a gentle and lyrical setting of the text ‘Hail, Queen of the Heavens’. The calm and memorable opening phrase is hinted at in passages of more intensity, and its partial statement at the end leaves it lingering after the voices have faded away. 2 minutes Bless to me this day SSA or SATB and piano or organ SSA Vocal score 9780193386211 SSA Digital 9780193535879 SATB Digital † 9780193545434 Bless to me this day is a tranquil setting of ‘The Journey Prayer’ from the Celtic compendium Carmina Gadelica. The sense of prescient optimism is captured in the flowing piano part, while the simplicity of the vocal lines enables the text to be imparted with warmth and sincerity. 4 minutes 4 Candlemas SSATB and organ Vocal score 9780193396982 McDowall’s Candlemas is a celebratory and powerful piece. Making use of choral divisions and suspensions, and a dynamic organ part, this setting of Denise Levertov’s text is reverent, yet joyous, and is ideal for a liturgical setting. 5 minutes
Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee Soprano solo and SSATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193413757 Cecilia, Busy Like a Bee is a reflective and reverential setting of a text adapted from the Divine Office for St Cecilia’s Day. The influence of plainchant is particularly apparent in the soprano solo, and McDowall intersperses effective imitative passages amidst homophonic writing with rich harmonies. 5.5 minutes Celestial Fire SSATB and organ Vocal score 9780193396999 The hymn ‘Come, Holy Ghost’ lies at the heart of Celestial Fire. Here, McDowall has woven the exquisite poetry of Denise Levertov into this expressive and uplifting piece. At times quietly meditative, Celestial Fire unfolds to a most joyous, affirmative conclusion. 4 minutes De Profundis (Night Raid) SSATB and organ Vocal score 9780193522954 Digital 9780193538375 This atmospheric anthem commemorates the First World War. It sets a stark English text by Dr Joseph Spence alongside Latin text from Psalm 130, with the words ‘In memoriam’ added. The lower parts sing Spence’s English text, conveying the relentless hardship of life in the trenches with declamatory and constantly developing vocal lines. The sopranos, meanwhile, repeat the Latin words from Psalm 130, providing a striking contrast in their constancy and otherworldliness. 5.5 minutes Deus, portus pacis SSATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193368347 This anthem sets a medieval English poem to contemplative music with all the hallmarks of McDowall’s style: expressive melismas, well-placed astringent harmonies, and a strong modal feel. 5.5 minutes Easter Light SATB and organ Vocal score 9780193415713 Digital 9780193537095 With a newly written text by Angier Brock, this compelling anthem is a welcome addition to the traditional Easter repertoire. Easter Light explores a variety of styles and colours, from organ solos suggestive of the song of the Eastern meadowlark to a meditative section in the manner of plainchant. 4.5 minutes God be with us SATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193543904 Digital 9780193543928 This uplifting anthem sets the Invocation text from Carmina Gadelica. McDowall’s beautiful melodies flow and intertwine, decorated by scotch snaps that reflect the text’s origin. Suitable for services or concerts. Also published in Breath of Song. 2.5 minutes God is Light SSATB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193415652 God is Light sets lines from Psalm 139, 1 Thessalonians, and 1 John. It moves from an unsettled tonality at the beginning, through anguished false relations and wistful expressivity, to find triumphant resolution in a blazing A major at the end. Like all of McDowall’s music, it is well crafted and singable. 5 minutes I know that my redeemer liveth SSA(A)TB unaccompanied Vocal score 9780193417557 Digital 9780193537217 This attractive motet was written for performance alongside Brahms’s Requiem, following the precedent of Handel’s famous setting of the same text being sung at the premiere of the Requiem in 1868. The gracefully sculpted music clothes the text with touching melodies, expressive harmonies, and varied sonorities. 4.5 minutes Choral Leaflets/Octavos Sacred 5
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