Blessed Are the Dead
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SATB choir divisi a cappella - Late Intermediate
SKU: MN.50-1760
Composed by William Beckstrand. National Lutheran Choir Series. Catholic Year C All Souls Day; Year C All Saints; Year A All Saints Day; Catholic Year A All Saints Day; Catholic Year A All Souls. All Saints/All Souls, Funeral, 21st Century, Lament/Grief/Sorrow. Octavo. MorningStar Music Publishers #50-1760. Published by MorningStar Music Publishers (MN.50-1760).UPC: 688670517600. Scripture: Revelation 14.
This motet, from William Beckstrands Requiem, is well suited for All Saints Sunday as an ending to a concert or worship service. The compositions haunting final passage is intended to be repeated continuously in a recessional, the music fading as if to the heavens. The Latin chant from the Requiem Mass (Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them) is accompanied by a verse in English from the Epistle for All Souls Day: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Revelation 14:13. Voicing spilt: SSATBB.