Product Number | 12-103 |
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Composer/Arranger | Diemer, Emma Lou |
Voicing & Instruments | Organ |
Series | Concert Organ Series |
Difficulty | Difficult |
Popular Keyboard Searches | Female Composer, Non Hymn-Based, Recital Music |
Liturgical Year | General |
Publisher | MorningStar Music Publishers |
Psalm 151 was commissioned by Joan DeVee Dixon in 1998 in honor of Alvin Broyles. The piece moves restlessly with sixteenth-note figuration, punctuated by melodic ideas that alternate between the hands. Psalm 151 builds to a dramatic close in which an A major chord emerges from the contrasting sonorities and is sustained full organ to the end. (Psalm 151 is one of the non-canonical psalms found in the Dead Sea Scrolls at Quamran.)