Nunc dimittis (Alexander Gretchaninoff)

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Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-01-07).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: removed temporarily 10/30/00

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Title: Nunc Dimittis
Composer: Alexander Gretchaninoff

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredEvening Canticles

Language: English
Instruments:
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Editor: Brian Casey (submitted 2015-11-01).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 250 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes: The instrumental sonorities emphasize conical brass (flugelhorns or cornets preferred). Solo oboe and/or solo muted trumpet may be added to, or substituted for, the tenor voice. Accompaniment instrumentation is two flugelhorns/cornets, three horns, two trombones, two euphoniums, and tuba. As for the text, Grechaninov would likely have used Latin or Russian, but no edition with either of those languages was available. Nor is any ancient manuscript available with the Hebrew or Aramaic that would have been spoken by Simeon himself, so the arranger chose to wed the music with the most ancient available text: the current scholarly edition of the Nestle-Aland Greek text (NA28). In addition to the Greek, this arrangement provides an English text that might be performed instead, or in addition to, the Greek.

General Information

Title: Nunc Dimittis
Composer: Alexander Gretchaninoff
Lyricist: Alexander Gretchaninoff

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Tenor and Brass

Genre: SacredChorale

Language: Greek
Instruments: Brass ensemble

Published: ca. 1914

Description: The choral original is a simple, chorale setting of the "Song of Simeon" from Luke 2.

External websites: https://blcasey.wordpress.com/encounter-music-arrangements/

Original text and translations

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