Category: CHILDREN & YOUTH
Composer: Roland de Lassus
Arranger: Doreen Rao
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Edition: OCTB6449
Voicing: SSAA
Setting: A Cappella
Reviewer:
Br. Paul Richards
The St. John’s Boys Choir, Collegeville 1994
R&R Chair Children & Youth
This canon uses another Latin text meaning “Music is God’s greatest gift” to celebrate the value of music in life. It is not only an enjoyable work, but a valuable tool with which to begin part-singing early on, with interesting harmonies set within the easily learned context of a canon.