Psalm 151

Diemer, Emma Lou

$10.00
Product Number
12-103
MorningStar Music Publishers
More Information
Product Number12-103
Composer/ArrangerDiemer, Emma Lou
Voicing & InstrumentsOrgan
SeriesConcert Organ Series
DifficultyDifficult
Popular Keyboard SearchesFemale Composer, Non Hymn-Based, Recital Music
Liturgical YearGeneral
PublisherMorningStar 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.)