SKU: PE.EP68524A
ISBN 9790300759043. Lat.
My Exs ultet uses the ancient chant to which the Easter Proclamation is declaimed, normally by a deacon at the start of the Great Vigil of Easter. The chant dates from somewhere between the fourth and seventh centuries and consists of formulaic repetitions of simple phrases. I have elaborated these phrases canonically, melodically, and harmonically into a three-part vocal fabric, accompanied by obbligato instruments. The full text of the original goes on for quite some time. My choral-instrumental version is much shorter.
Commission ed by the Young People's Chorus of New York City for Transient Glory and dedicated to Francisco J. Núñez.