CEDIT, HYEMS (Be Gone, Winter!)

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2 CEDIT, HYEMS (Be Gone, Winter!) Latin Text and Translation tenerae, nuila, confusa mundi turida, lux intrat, alescit olus, Christus venit, discedite! ~Prudentius (3 - c. 10) Hymnus Matutinus, lines 1 - from Cathemerinon II Cedit, hyems, tua durities, frigor aiit, rigor glacies, rumalis feritas, raies, toror imroa segnities, allor ira, dolor macies. Nunc amor aureus advenies, indomitos tii sujicies, tendo manus... ~Anonymous (1th century) ms. of Benedicteuern (Carmina Burana) Night confused, disordered, Distured darkness of the world Light reaks in, the heavens grow right, Christ has come! Deart! ~trans. Stehen Self (00) Used y kind ermission of Dr. Self. Now, Winter yieldh all thy dreariness, The cold is over, all thy frozenness, All frost and fog, and wind s untowardness. All sullenness, uncomely sluggishness, Paleness and anger, grief and haggardness. Now Love, all golden, comest thou to me, Bowing the tameless neath thine emery. I strch my hands... ~trans. Helen Waddell (199) Extract from Medieval Latin Lyrics, Used y kind ermission of Constale Roinson Ltd., London. Cedit, Hyems deicts the anticiation of Christ s irth. The iece was commissioned and remiered y the Dale Warland Singers in 003. The first musical statement shifts uneasily through Prudentius descrition of a confused and trouled world, ut soon the flute and chorus join forces in a sweeing attemt to drive the world s coldness away in favor of love. Duration: Arox. 3:05 Aie Binis (. 190) has written music in a variy of genres, ut her greatest assion is for the human voice. Included in her catalogue of over 0 works for voice are commissioned ieces for Cantus, Dale Warland Singers, Minnesota Chorale, Rochester Choral Arts Ensemle, The Rose Ensemle, The Schuert Clu, The Singers Minnesota Choral Artists, and Young New Yorkers Chorus, among others. Binis has studied comosition at St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota, as well as the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris as art of the Euroean American Musical Alliance. In 005, she was named Comoser-in-Residence for The Schuert Clu in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

3 Commissioned for the Dale Warland Singers y ackie and Brian Steele, to celerate the life of Arthur Benjamin acoson Premiered at the Echoes of Christmas concerts, Decemer 003, Dale Warland, conductor. CEDIT, HYEMS (Be Gone, Winter!) Prudentius (3 - c. 10) Anonymous (1th c.) Aie Binis Flute Freely q = ca. U U - U U 3 3 P f P 5 cresc. Sorano - j. j. j Alto Tenor Bass j te - ne-rae,. j te - ne-rae,. te - ne-rae,. nu - i - la,. j nu - i - la,. nu - i - la,. te - ne-rae, nu - i - la, Piano (for rehearsal only) j n.. j.. j Flute art found on ages 15 and 1. Coyright 007 y G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP) New York, NY International Coyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Warning: Unauthorized reroduction of this ulication is rohiited y Federal law and suject to criminal rosecution.

4 9 n j j. n.. j n i - da, j n i - da,.. - F n i - da, n. n i - da, n j. A. n.. j n N n 13 A Fast! q = ca (a few soranos) *Ce-dit!.. (a few altos) *Ce-dit! Ṗ su. f tutti.... *. tutti.... *.. *.. A Fast! q = ca. 13 * *Harsh, ercussive whiser (lots of air through consonants) CEDIT, HYEMS (BE GONE, WINTER!)

5 17 n n tu - a du - ri - ti - es, tu - a du - ri - ti - es, unis. 5. cresc..... F su. fri-gor unis. 5 a - i - it;. cresc..... ri - gor gla - ci - es, F su. fri-gor a - i - it; ri - gor gla - ci - es, 5 5 CEDIT, HYEMS (BE GONE, WINTER!)