Come, Holy Spirit (1994)
Motet for four-part mixed choir
Four-part mixed choir (SATB)
Duration: 5 minutes
Title: Come, Holy Spirit - Length: 4 pages - Date: 12.4.94 - Location:
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Published in the collective choir volume of the Doblinger publishing house "Dein Geist weht wo er will" - Lieder zum Heiligen Geist for equal and mixed voices with or without accompaniment (ed.: Österreichische Werkwoche für Kirchenmusik, Armin Kircher), 1994 (order no.: 45 444)
Come, Holy Spirit, sanctify us!
Fill our hearts with a burning longing
for the truth, the way and the full life.
Ignite your fire in us,
that we ourselves may become light from it,
that shines and warms and comforts.
Let our sluggish tongues find words,
that speak of your love and beauty.
Re-create us so that we become people of love,
your saints, visible words of God.
Then the face of the earth will be renewed,
and all things created anew.
Amen.
(from a prayer of the Eastern Church)
An invocation motet for 4 mixed voices. In a modal process, mostly homophonic sections are formed, each of which is cadenced at characteristic levels.
Bertold Hummel