By:

• Ray Twomey

Duration:

04' 00"

Samples

	Recording (939k)	0:00-1:00	© Ray Twomey
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Availability

• This work has a score and 2 recordings

Programme Note

Gloria in Excelsis Deo is an adaptation of the final chorus from Ray’s opera The Three Shepherds for organ and choir. The chorus was designed to be sung by high school students who had never sung in four-part harmony before. It is a very traditional and conservative work but full of power – almost Handelian in its flavour…