SATTB choir and organ continuo (SATB) - Easy to Moderately Difficult SKU: OU.9780193950207
Composed by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Edited by Patrick Russill. Sacred choral - mixed voices. Church Music Society Publications. Sacred, Choral Leaflet. Vocal score. 16 pages. Duration 4'. Oxford University Press #9780193950207. Published by Oxford University Press (OU.9780193950207). ISBN 9780193950207. 10 x 7 inches.
For SATTB and organ continuo. Sweelinck's setting of the Beatitudes is suitable for any Saint's day or the commemoration of the faithful departed. For the words 'Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake', Sweelinck used a powerful chain of suspensions over a rising bass.
