Britten, Benjamin: AMDG (Ad majorem Dei gloriam) SATB unacc. / Faber Music

Setting: Mixed Voices

Genre: Religious Works

Length: 64 pages

Publisher: Faber Music

Item number: 0571508162

ISMN: 9780571508167 / 978-0571508167

Hangszer/letét: Kórus - Vegyeskar a cappella

Műfaj: Egyházzene

Terjedelem: 64 oldal

Kiadó: Faber Music

Katalógusszám: 0571508162

These settings of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins for SATB choir were written while Britten was resident in America in the Summer of 1939. The title A.M.D.G is a shorthand form of a pious inscription, Ad majoram Dei gloriam, often placed at the head of a piece of work.