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Dominick DiOrio
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Verbum caro factum est
A charming carol: buoyant, expectant, and jubilant, moving in and out of modal and tonal areas with agile fancy.
TTBB a cappella
Commissioned by and dedicated to Jeremy D. Jones and the Men’s Glee Club of Miami University,
with fond dedication also to Jakob Patriksson and the men of Ars Veritas, Göteborg, Sweden.
The music is buoyant, expectant, and jubilant, moving in and out of modal and tonal areas with agile fancy. The music comes to a satisfying conclusion, accelerating and rising to ever-higher and more glorious pitches. While appropriate of course for the holiday season, this work fits wonderfully on any program or within the context of any service.
Composer’s Notes
The genesis and commissioning of “Verbum caro factum est” is a result of the joining of many serendipitous threads.
In 2014, I was selected by the American Choral Directors Association to be a participant in the International Conductor Exchange Program with Sweden. Through this wonderful program, I was paired with a young Swedish conductor and organist, Jakob Patriksson. I was one of several hosts that Jakob enjoyed during his visit to the U.S.A. In addition to time spent at Indiana University, Jakob also visited and worked with conductors Amy Blosser and Jeremy Jones in the neighboring state of Ohio. Jeremy, Jakob and I spent a rather treacherous afternoon together in the middle of a March blizzard and had a delightful conversation about our future plans over Japanese food.
As Jakob and Jeremy are both conductors of male choruses, they wished to plan an exchange between their groups: Ars Veritas and the Miami University Men’s Glee Club, respectively. So it was that Jeremy secured funding to bring a select ensemble of his Glee Club to Göteborg and sing a joint concert with Ars Veritas. Jeremy and Jakob wished to mark the occasion with a new commissioned work, and thus the score before you has come into being.
I was asked to set a text and tune of my choosing from the Piae Cantiones, a 16th century collection of late Medieval Latin songs, used at the time for teaching music in Finnish cathedral schools. From the songbook, I’ve chosen to set “Verbum caro factum est,” a joyous hymn of praise appropriate for the celebration of Christmas. While many holiday carols focus the attention on the Christ child, this hymn ruminates on the mother Mary.
The music is buoyant, expectant, and jubilant, moving in and out of modal and tonal areas with agile fancy. The music comes to a satisfying conclusion, accelerating and rising to ever-higher and more glorious pitches. While appropriate of course for the holiday season, this work fits wonderfully on any program or within the context of any service.
The work is fondly dedicated to Jeremy, Jakob, and their able singers.
– Dominick DiOrio
Text
R. Verbum caro factum est de virgine,
verbum caro factum est de virgine Maria.
1. In hoc anni circulo vita datur saeculo:
nato nobis parvulo de virgine:
nato nobis parvulo de virgine Maria. R.
2. O beata femina, cuius ventris gloria
Mundi lauat crimina: de virgine Maria. R.
3. Stella solem protulit, sol salutem contulit,
Carnem veram abstulit de virgine Maria. R.
4. Fons de suo rivulo nascitur pro populo,
Quem tulit de vinculo: de virgine Maria. R.
5. Laus, honor, virtus, Domino Deo Patri et Filio,
Sancto simul Paracleto: de virgine Maria. R.
– Piae Cantionis
Translation:
R. The word was made flesh, of a virgin
The word was made flesh from the virgin Mary.
1. In the circle of the year, life is given to the world:
the birth of our little girl:
the birth of our child of the virgin Mary R.
2. O beautiful woman, whose glorious womb
Washes the sins of the world: from the virgin Mary. R.
3. Stella brought forth the sun, and the sun brought salvation,
Taken out of the true flesh of the virgin Mary. R.
4. The source of the stream is born for the people,
Whom he released from their chains: of the virgin Mary. R.
5. Praise, honor, and virtue to the Lord God, the Father and the Son,
and the Holy Spirit, also the Paraclete: of the Virgin Mary. R.
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