Damien Geter

An African American Requiem

$175.00

Duration: 90'

Instrumentation: Orchestra (3.3.2.2/4.4.3.1/timp.perc/str), SATB choir, SATB quartet

Delivery Method: Physical Delivery
Performance Materials: Full Score

An African American Requiem, Damien Geter (2019)
for SATB Soloists, Chorus, & Orchestra

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An African American Requiem is a twenty-movement work based on the traditional Latin requiem liturgy infusing spirituals and modern declarations relating to racial violence against African Americans, as well as a setting of Ida B. Wells’s speech Lynching is Color Line Murder.

Orchestral instrumentation: 3.2.2.2/4.4.3.1/timp.perc/str

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112-005-FS
Delivery Method: Physical Delivery
Performance Materials: Full Score

About the Work

Duration: 90'

Movements:
1. Introit
2. Kyrie
3. We Are Living in Communities like War Zones
4. Dies Irae
5. Tuba Mirum
6. I Can't Breathe
7. Mors Stupebit
8. Liber Scriptus/There's a Man Goin' Round
9. Quid Sum Miser
10. Rex Tremendae
11. Recordare/I Am Confused and Afraid
12. Ingemisco
13. Confutatis
14. Lacrimosa
15. Offertory
16. Kum Ba Yah (Sanctus)
17. Agnus Dei
18. Lux Aeterna
19. Libera Me/Lynching is Color Line Murder
20. In Paradisum/Walk Together Children

Instrumentation: Orchestra (3.3.2.2/4.4.3.1/timp.perc/str), SATB choir, SATB quartet

Commissioned by: Resonance Ensemble

An African American Requiem is a twenty-movement work based on the traditional Latin requiem liturgy infusing spirituals and modern declarations relating to racial violence against African Americans, as well as a setting of Ida B. Wells’s speech Lynching is Color Line Murder.

ISMN: 979-0-094-00234-9

Pages: 202