musica sacra
Felix Argast ArgWV 33

DER GUTE HIRT
PSALM 23
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für Solo-Stimme Mezzosopran / Baryton
und Orgel (Klavier)

THE GOOD SHEPHERD - PSALM 23

About the composition:

I composed Psalm 23 during the difficult time of the "corona pandemic". Many well-known and partly unknown composers have set this great PSALM to music. Despite my initial reservations, I decided to do my own version.

To my knowledge, only a few compositions of Psalm 23 are available that have been set to music for a solo voice with instrumental accompaniment.

Like all my compositions and published works, this edition (the full score and the individual solo part) is written in my handwriting.
Felix Argast

Brass Journal plus, Archiv Nr. 39
Artikelnummer:  2020 Brass Journal Nr_3            
Brass Journal plus, 2020, 35. Jahrgang Heft 3, Juli-September ISSN 2193-7893 PAPER PRESS und E-Book
Publisher    Wolfgang G. Haas-Musikverlag Köln e. K.
ISSN         2193-7893   Format        A 4    Seiten: 28   
     Inhaltsverzeichnis:

•     Autor                                Titel                                                                  Seite   
• Wolfgang G. Haas         Recital-Serie Soloprogramme in einer schwierigen Zeit.
• Wolfgang G. Haas        Stanley Weiner1925-‘91 die Autobiographie eines bemerkenswerten
•                                       Komponisten, Violinisten und Zeitzeuge des 20. Jahrhunderts.
• Wolfgang G. Haas        Edward H. Tarr 1936-2020 Trauer um den
•                                      Trompeter und Musikwissenschaftler
• Album-Blatt Nr. 38        Beispiel aus der Recital-Reihe
•                                     NEUAUSGABEN im WOLFGANG G. HAAS-MUSIKVERLAG KÖLN
•      Wolfgang G. Haas    ASE Música: Musik im Armenviertel
•      Wolfgang G. Haas    Mit Musik gegen Armut, Gewalt und Alltagsstress
•      Vít Gregor                Jiří Laburda: Eine Begegnung mit dem Klavierwerk
•                                      Jiří Laburdas aus der Sicht des Interpreten.  
•     Wolfgang G. Haas    Felix Argast Aphorismen für gemischten Chor
•                                     Texte von Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)
• _________________________________________________________________________________

Felix Argast *1936
TEXTS: BY DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (1906-1945)
APHORISMEN ArgWV32
FOR MIXED CHOR (S.A,T,B.) A CAPPELLA
IF NECESSARY / AD LIB. WITH ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT
Text in German
CHORAL SCORE

Felix Argast SOME THOUGHTS TO THE COMPOSITION
THE APHORISMEN FOR MIXED CHOR
In the summer of 2019, on a lonely hike in the secluded mountain valley of the Swiss mountains, I unexpectedly thought of a NAME in my "relaxed and contemplative reflection": DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (1906-1945).
For the present composition, the search for and finding the many theological writings and poems left behind by DIETRICH BONHOEFFER was a positive one.
The texts were formed by me into seven APHORISMEN and designed for a multi-voiced GESANGS-CHOR.
In order for the sung text template to receive a powerful statement, it makes sense to have the APHORISMEN replayed by a speaking voice before the singing chorus is heard.
During the composition work I realized that for the intonation-safe execution of the MIXED A CAPPELLA CHOR should have a certain size with a good vocal distribution, in order to cope well with the divided choral voices.
This led me to add an additional piano organ part (also for rehearsal work) so that the work can also reach an expressive performance for smaller choirs with a fine organ accompaniment.
May the contemplative text of DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, in harmony with the composed music, touch many people and have a powerful, empowering and hopeful effect on them.
Felix Argast

Felix Argast *1936
TEXTS: BY DIETRICH BONHOEFFER (1906-1945)
APHORISMEN ArgWV32
FOR MIXED CHOR (S.A,T,B.) A CAPPELLA
IF NECESSARY / AD LIB. WITH ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT

Texts in German

SCORE / ORGAN VOICE

Felix Argast

- Siebenteiliger Zyklus << IN PACE >>
<< MISSA PRO PACE >>
FÜR SOLO-GESANG (MEZZO-SOPRAN/BARYTON)
SOPRAN/TENOR-SAXOPHON UND ORGEL
IV.) INTERLUDIUM
COMMUNIO (IN PACE) TEXTE AUS PSALM 4 ArgWV31,7

SOLO-GESANG (MEZZO-SOPRAN/BARYTON)
MIT TENOR-SAXOPHON UND ORGEL
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Felix Argast
- Siebenteiliger Zyklus << IN PACE >>
<< MISSA PRO PACE >>
FÜR SOLO-GESANG (MEZZO-SOPRAN/BARYTON)
SOPRAN/TENOR-SAXOPHON UND ORGEL
III.) AGNUS DEI ArgWV31,6
SOLO-GESANG (MEZZO-SOPRAN/BARYTON)
MIT TENOR-SAXOPHON UND ORGEL

Felix Argast

- Siebenteiliger Zyklus << IN PACE >>
<< MISSA PRO PACE >>
FÜR SOLO-GESANG (MEZZO-SOPRAN/BARYTON)
SOPRAN/TENOR-SAXOPHON UND ORGEL
II.) SANCTUS ArgWV31,5

SOLO-GESANG (MEZZO-SOPRAN/BARYTON)
MIT SOPRAN-SAXOPHON UND ORGEL

Felix Argast
- Seven-part cycle - << IN PACE >>
II.) ELEGIE
[MY HANDS]
FOR ORGAN AND TENOR SAXOPHONE, ArgWV31.2