O Leafy Branch
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Composer: Anne Neikirk
Duration: ca. 4:30
Scoring: mixed, a cappella choir (SATB)
Materials: choral score (8.5 x 11)
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Duration: ca. 4:30
Scoring: mixed, a cappella choir (SATB)
Materials: choral score (8.5 x 11)
For bulk orders of choral music or print licensing, please Contact Us for more information.
Program Note
O Leafy Branch was commissioned by the Women’s Sacred Music Project as part of their 2010 celebration of the feast day of Hildegard of Bingen. The text is an English translation of a poem written by Hildegard entitled "O frondens Virga." Hildegard composed a chant with her Latin poem, which I have interspersed into this work.
— Anne Neikirk
— Anne Neikirk
O Frondens Virga
O leafy branch,
Standing in your nobility
As the dawn breaks forth:
Now rejoice and be glad
And deign to set us frail ones
Free from evil habits
And stretch forth your hand
And lift us up.
— Hildegard von Bingen
O leafy branch,
Standing in your nobility
As the dawn breaks forth:
Now rejoice and be glad
And deign to set us frail ones
Free from evil habits
And stretch forth your hand
And lift us up.
— Hildegard von Bingen
Reproduction Notice:
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.
This program note may be freely reproduced in concert programs, provided that proper credit is given to the composer.