Description
Arranged by Geoffrey Atkinson for SATB and Organ
The original is laid out for SAATTB; this arrangement re-distributes the vocal material, without significant loss, into a more practical version for the usual complement of voices, and adds an organ part (the use of which would have been understood). While brief (scarcely 2 minutes) it is absolutely magnificent in its celebration of the intervals of sevenths and ninths (melodically and harmonically); listened to ‘innocently’ one would assume it was work of Samuel’s son, Samuel Sebastian at his most exuberant, and written at least 30 years later that its actual date, 1827. The text of the motet in English is ‘Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech’, and the arrangement was made to be sung at the installation of a new minister at a church in Aberdeen.
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