Hail Lovely and Pure*
for Mixed Chorus (S.A.T.B) a cappella - Length: ca. 13'
Available through Subito Music - Please visit SMD to order.
This short poem is from The Second Shepherd’s Play, an English mystery play written in the 15th century by The Wakefield Master of Northern England. Mystery (or miracle) plays were a form of medieval drama that represented Biblical subjects such as the Creation and the Last Judgment. My late brother David translated a fragment from the original Middle English and made a small calligraphic version of it which I discovered among his papers. The text consists of the first lines spoken by the shepherds when they enter the stable to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and my setting is for a cappella chorus.
Calligraphy and translation by David C. K. McClelland
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