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Many composers worked on this beautiful extract from The Song of Songs. Vytautas Miškinis offers his personal interpretation of this text and set it to music with harmonic and rhythmic liberty enhanced by a great number of different voices (three male voices and three female voices).
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“This is a love poem like many others. I wrote “Adoración” for piano-and-vocals. After that, I arranged it for choirs, and it received a favorable reception because it is easy to perform but also because of the link between harmony and rhythm. The four voices are on an independent melody which can be sung alone, that’s why it is easy to learn.
Its 3/4 time is a characteristic of romantic ballades. It is often found in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and Colombia. In fact, this is a “Romanza” about love enhanced as a true feeling.”
(Translated from French)
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Giulio Cesare composed the “Libro primo de motetti a una, due, tre, quattro, cinque e otto voce” which was published in Venice in 1620. Today’s collections are usually compilations of a given composer’s songs, instead of being anthologies as it was in the last century. This collection includes Claudio Monteverdi’s motets which were not published in “Selva morale.” These short songs can be performed with or without accompaniment. They are intended to be sung on liturgies. These three motets are written in a style influenced by the Venetian school and represents Claudio Monteverdi’s devotion with a beautiful harmony and contrapuntal melody.
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