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Magnificat

For SSAA Choir and Brass Ensemble

duration 6'


Commissioned by: The Wellesley College Choir,
Lisa Graham, Conductor

World Premiere: 2003, Wellesley, Mass.

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The Wellesley College Choir with Brass Ensemble, Lisa Graham, Conductor
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Text and Translation:
 
 

Magníficat ánima méa Dóminum.
Et exsultávit spíritus méus in Déo salutári méo.
Quía respéxit humilitátem ancíllæ súæ:
écce énim ex hoc beátam me dícent ómnes generatiónes.
Quía fécit míhi mágna qui pótens est:
et sánctum nómen éjus.
Et misericórdia éjus a progénie in progénies timéntibus éum.
Fécit poténtiam in bráchio súo:
dispérsit supérbos ménte córdis súi.
Depósuit poténtes de séde,
et exaltávit húmiles.
Esuriéntes implévit bónis:
et dívites dimísit inánes.
Suscépit Ísrael púerum súum, recordátus misericórdiæ súæ.
Sícut locútus est ad Pátres nóstros, Ábraham et sémini éjus in sæcula.
Glória Pátri, glória Fílio, glória et Spirítui Sáncto.
Sícut érat in princípio, et nunc, et sémper et in sæcula sæculórum. Ámen.


My soul doth magnify the Lord
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the low estate of his hand-maiden:
For, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things:
and holy is his name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
He hath shewed strength with his arm:
he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seats,
and exalted them of low degree.
He hath filled the hungry with good things;
and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed for ever.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was at the beginning, and is now and ever shall be,
World without end. Amen

 
 


 

 
 
     

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The Wellesley College Choir with Brass Ensemble, Lisa Graham, Conductor
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