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- Nico Muhly
Marrow (2017)
- St. Rose Music Publishing (World)
Commissioned by the Netherlands Chamber Choir for the project 150 Psalms to be premiered by the Tallis Scholars during Utrecht Early Music Festival, September 1st, 2017.
Programme Note
Marrow is a miniature setting of Psalm 63. I wanted the voices divided into opposing forces: very abstract, liquid and repetitive chords pitted against long, declarative lines in the lower voices. The only time they merge is on the text “Thus have I looked for thee in holiness” and “when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips.” There is something deliberately dizzying about the repeated chords suggested by the heat-stroke delirium in the text “in a barren and dry land where no water is.”
– NICO MUHLY