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Original

It Is a Good Thing. Constantine Shvedoff. Choir sheet music.

Translation

It Is a Good Thing. Constantine Shvedoff. Choir sheet music.

Original

It Is a Good Thing. Blago yest ispovedatisia. Composed by Constantine Shvedoff. 1886-1954. For SATB choir. div. Choral octavo. Language. Church Slavonic. Published by Musica Russica. MR.SH-009. With Language. Church Slavonic. Russian composers of sacred music are known for writing richly harmonized chant-based works much more than for employing fugal or other imitative contrapuntal techniques. In his sacred concerto "It Is a Good Thing"Constantine Shvedoff. 1886-1954. does both. Between the richly scored homophony of the beginning and ending, he constructs one of the rare fugues in all of Russian sacred choral literature, employing a theme that finds its roots in the ancient znamenny chant of the Russian church. A remarkable blending of "East"and "West".

Translation

It Is a Good Thing. Blago yest ispovedatisia. Composed by Constantine Shvedoff. 1886-1954. For SATB choir. div. Choral octavo. Language. Church Slavonic. Published by Musica Russica. MR.SH-009. With Language. Church Slavonic. Russian composers of sacred music are known for writing richly harmonized chant-based works much more than for employing fugal or other imitative contrapuntal techniques. In his sacred concerto "It Is a Good Thing"Constantine Shvedoff. 1886-1954. does both. Between the richly scored homophony of the beginning and ending, he constructs one of the rare fugues in all of Russian sacred choral literature, employing a theme that finds its roots in the ancient znamenny chant of the Russian church. A remarkable blending of "East"and "West".