| Canticum Novum |
Syracuse University Women's Choir; Barbara Tagg, conductor Canticum Novum is a motet for female choir with texts from Psalms 149 and 150. It was commissioned by Scott Tucker, Cornell University director of choral music, to be the closing work of the 2004 Treble Fest final concert. As in Vega’s Notre-Dame Pentecost Mass, the composer mixes well known medieval voice leading techniques, such as the double leading tone cadence and Landini cadence, with contemporary harmonic techniques. Its central fugatto demarks the climax of the piece and leads to its antiphonal conclusion. The text of the work is: 149:1 cantate Domino canticum novum This recording: Cornell Chorus and Wellesley College Chamber Singers, Tim Olsen, organ; Scott Tucker, conductor |