Augsburg Fortress

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Here composer Young provides a fresh setting of a beloved hymn. The text dates back to a fourth-century rite; the translation was matched with a French melody in the twentieth century. This setting utilizes rhythmic augmentation and gentle application of handbells and percussion to lead into meditation on the communion text.
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  • Publisher Augsburg Fortress
  • Format Sheet Music
  • ISBN 9781451498882
  • Brand Augsburg Choral Library
  • Dimensions 7 x 10.25
  • Pages 12
  • Season/Occasion Communion; General
  • Difficulty Easy-Medium
  • Voicing SAB/3-part mixed
  • Publication Date March 18, 2015

Composer Commentary

Composed for The Candler Singers, Barbara Day Miller, conductor, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and first performed in Cannon Chapel, March 22, 2011.

The composition moves towards and away from the two bars of silence, 60 and 61.

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