"Despised and Rejected" [Douglas Brooks-Davies]

"Despised and Rejected" [Douglas Brooks-Davies]

First line of lyrics: "Friend, open to Me." Who is this that calls?

Brooks-Davies, Douglas; music (English, born 1942)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

2006 [composition]; 2007 [copyright]

Douglas Brooks-Davies

genre: choral music|Easter music|sacred music|song

chorus: SATB chorus

instrumentation: piano

initial sharps/flats: one sharp

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United Kingdom

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Despised and Rejected"

Notes about the text: The lyrics include lines from stanzas 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 in Rossetti's poem.

Composition history: "A setting for Lent, and especially Passion Sunday, of part of Christina Rossetti’s awesome and chilling poem of the same name. My simple SATB setting, with its minimal accompaniment and harmony and hints of recitative, is intended to suggest the remote bleakness of plainsong and thus underscore the utter loneliness of the one who refuses to listen to the caller, thereby himself becoming outcast and rejected. The Biblical roots of the poem lie in Lamentations, 1:12 and Isaiah, 53:3ff." ("Brooks-Davies: Despised and Rejected (anthem for Lent) SATB choir + piano")

Tempo markings: quarter note = 70

Format 1: musical score

6 pages; performance time 4 minutes

Other data reference(s): "Brooks-Davies: Despised and Rejected (anthem for Lent) SATB choir + piano." Score Exchange, https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/56703.html. Accessed 15 July 2019.

Cataloguer: Emma-Catherine Wilson and Emily McConkey, University of Ottawa

musical score: Douglas Brooks-Davies

This score is copyright protected. A score can be consulted here: "Brooks-Davies: Despised and Rejected (anthem for Lent) SATB choir + piano". Score Exchange, https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/56703.html. Accessed 15 July 2019.

Record: CRM-despisedandrejected-brooks-davies

File(s): CRM-despisedandrejected-brooks-davies.pdf

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