Dixit Dominus (Score) Norbert Dufourcq Songs have been chosen whose

Songs have been chosen whose texts still speak to us today: songs that evoke nature

it was composed consciously in the stile antico

Wade: Adeste Fidelis

This new edition therefore offers the work in two performable versions: firstly

in 1913 in Kolberg

Dixit Dominus (Score) Norbert Dufourcq Songs have been chosen whoseThese psalm settings are in the tradition of classical vocal polyphony as practiced in the modified a cappella style of the 17 th century (stylus gravis). Characteristic of this style is the continuo line, which generally doubles the vocal bass, only occasionally functioning independently. Despite its closeness to the tradition of the a cappella style, Carissimi proves in this psalm to be a master of the artistic expression of words, which