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Gott for SSAATTBB (double choir)
 Classical/Contemporary • 2004 • Lyricist: Bô Yin Râ • Alternative Title: Gott for SSAATTBB (double choir)
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Gott for SSAATTBB (double choir)
Instrumentation |
Mixed choir |
Scored for |
Choir |
Type of score |
Vocal score |
Publisher |
Hans Bakker |
Language |
German |
Difficulty |
Difficult |
Duration |
9'36 |
The choral work GOTT on a poem by Bô Yin Râ, from Life In The Light: GOD
In all forms / Former and design, / In all life/ Procreation and preservation, / Holding in unity / The fullness of all numbers / God is himself the content / And the shell of the content. / The Eternal One / Sets himself /
In "space" the "time", / And yet remains eternal /
Eternity itself. (Transl. H. Bakker)
(Original German text, see below in Comment)
This work belongs to the Cycle of Choirs Praśasti, nr.4. These choir works are in a way music between heaven and earth as I want to sing a hymn to the glory of the presence of the divine, as it is inscribed in the book of nature. Praśasti (Sanskrit) means: inscriptional panegyric in honor of a king. Panegyrics were popular in late classic Sanskrit literature, but we can already find examples of the religious-magical purpose of the genre in Rigveda, Mahabharata and Ramayana: "to say a thing in ritual is to bring it to pass by mystical indentification." (Ingalls, 1972, p.211)
Performed and recorded by Kühn Choir Prague in 2012 on the CD Seeking & Finding (Navona Records, NV5877);
on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nup2MsIVAi4
on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6YPQqJx0cqVrnRqSOoHePM?si=3a24a8934bf04721
Hans Bakker 28 Nov 2024 17:23
Original German text of God, from the book Life in the Light (http://www.bo-yin-ra-the-luminary.com/life-in-the-light.html): LEBEN IM LICHT,p.97
GOTT
In allen Formen
Former und Gestaltung,
In allem Leben
Zeugung und Erhaltung,
In Einheit bergend
Aller Zahlen Fülle
Ist Gott sich selber Inhalt
Und des Inhalts Hülle.
Der Ewig Eine
Setzt sich selbst
Im "Raum" die "Zeit",
Und bleibt doch ewig
Selbst die Ewigkeit.
Bô Yin Râ
Kober Verlag, Switzerland
www.kober-verlag.ch
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