Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
***** An AMAZING story (and FACT) about "Michelangelo" (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564)... One knows him as a sculptor, painter, architect - but during his day, he was just as well known as a literary giant, writing over 300 sonnets of the High Renaissance. How can this be that ONE PERSON - can be known for so many disciplines at once, when any one of them requires a LIFETIME by itself? And here we are 500 years later - and HE STILL IS STUDIED, and his name is RECOGNIZED by every person on the street - regardless of status. Amazing. This work is a setting of one of his sonnets.
The Michelangelo text is combined with "Foebus Abierat" ("Phoebus had gone"), an anonymous 10th c. medieval Latin poem. In the text, the person is awakened by the IMAGE ("ghost") of their lover, and believes for a moment that their love is TRULY standing in the room.
SATB, mezzo & tenor soloists, violin
Publisher? E-music, free download at zrstroope.com (Go to "ZRS Exclusives")
Join the over 4,300 subscribers to Randall's channel, and see/hear the other 108 videos he has created. Several new works have just been recorded, including his new extended (six-movement) work, IN PARADISUM - released this spring. (Go to zrstroope.com to listen and see a score.)
***** An AMAZING story (and FACT) about "Michelangelo" (di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 1475-1564)... One knows him as a sculptor, painter, architect - but during his day, he was just as well known as a literary giant, writing over 300 sonnets of the High Renaissance. How can this be that ONE PERSON - can be known for so many disciplines at once, when any one of them requires a LIFETIME by itself? And here we are 500 years later - and HE STILL IS STUDIED, and his name is RECOGNIZED by every person on the street - regardless of status. Amazing. This work is a setting of one of his sonnets.
The Michelangelo text is combined with "Foebus Abierat" ("Phoebus had gone"), an anonymous 10th c. medieval Latin poem. In the text, the person is awakened by the IMAGE ("ghost") of their lover, and believes for a moment that their love is TRULY standing in the room.
SATB, mezzo & tenor soloists, violin
Publisher? E-music, free download at zrstroope.com (Go to "ZRS Exclusives")
Join the over 4,300 subscribers to Randall's channel, and see/hear the other 108 videos he has created. Several new works have just been recorded, including his new extended (six-movement) work, IN PARADISUM - released this spring. (Go to zrstroope.com to listen and see a score.)
![HODIE! [revised 14:00] Composed/Conducted by Z. RANDALL STROOPE](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_F_IUDtEuOE/mqdefault.jpg "HODIE! [revised 14:00] Composed/Conducted by Z. RANDALL STROOPE
***** Explosion of color and exciting sonorities - this work contains fanfare, bold sonorities, reflection, inclusion of a chorale by Philipp Nicolai, and an ending of absolute sonic fireworks. It is literally one of the most enjoyable works that I have ever composed. Even though the brass is a full contingent (8 players), I was quite careful to maintain vocal balance. (The recording was made with 28 voices, 8 brass, timp, perc (1), organ, and a childrens choir of about 12). The treble choir can be done by trebles in the SATB choir, or very effectively by children. This is a centerpiece of any program, and the brass can be utilized on a variety of other literature on the program!
HODIE! (revised) was built on an early version written in the 1990s, with a brand new first movement and the third largely new material and much more colorful!
Movement 1: Ring out, you crystal spheres, Bless at once our human ears... (1629), John Milton; (also trad. Latin)
Movement 2: Hodie Christus natus est (trad. Latin)
Movement 3: Alleluia, Hodie exultant justi, dicentes! (trad. Latin)
Wake, awake for night is flying,
All the watchers on the heights are crying:
Awake, Jerusalem, arise! (Philipp Nicolai (trans. Winkworth)
BRASS VERSION
SATB (with opt. treble choir on movement 3)
(opt. treble choir [unison] in 3rd mvt; can be done by the SA in the mixed chorus)
4 trumpets in C
2 tenor trombones
b-trombone
tuba
timpani
percussion (1): tambourine, crash cym, suspended cym, snare, glock & xylophone
organ
ORCHESTRA VERSION
SATB chorus
2 flutes
2 oboes
2 Bb clarinets
2 bassoons
4 horns
3 Bb trumpets
3 trombones
1 tuba
timpani
percussion
harp
strings
* SATB/brass/timp/perc/org (3 mvts) 1400
* also SATB/orchestra
* RECORDED by THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES [ZRS conducting], DFW Brass & Peggy Graff,
organist; Theresa Pritchard & voices from Vista Ridge Middle School
* Mark Foster (Hal Leonard 00367069)
Join the over 4,300 subscribers to Randalls channel, and see/hear the other 108 videos he has created. Several new works have just been recorded, including his new extended (six-movement) work, IN PARADISUM - released this spring.. (Go to zrstroope.com to listen and see a score.)")
