DREAMING IN DARKNESS (2006)

LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS (2006)

Same music, two texts

SATB Choir
Duration 1:45

TEXTS (see below):
Secular text: by the composer: on the subject of nighttime and children's dreams.
Sacred text: Evensong Collect

View score for Dreaming in Darkness

View score for Lighten our Darkness

(second page omitted in both scores)

Recording from the Luminescence Project performance, December 13, 2008 (recorded outdoors).

Dreaming in Darkness (perusal video with score):

This piece is published in Feniarco's Choraliter.

SECULAR TEXT:

Dreaming in darkness, we entreat you, O Night! through your long shadows, to defend them from the terrors and visions of their dreams; for the love of their untarnished hopes, protect our children, Night, dreaming in darkness.

SACRED TEXT:

Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord;
and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

(Book of Common Prayer)

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