The inal Hours A Suite for Holy Week By Lee Dengler and Susan Naus Dengler or SATB Choir accomanied* Available roducts: 00-116 Choral Book 00-117 revie ack 00-118 Rehearsal Trax 00-119 InstruTrax CD 00-120 Bulk CDs (10 ack)** 00-121 Listening CD *Otional lute Cello and Chimes (or Handbell) arts available for free donload at alfred.com/choralarts (enter 116 in the search field). **This ackage of 10 Listening CDs rovides an inexensive ay for your choir members to have their on coy of the recording. erformance Time: Arox. 18 minutes alfred.com 201 Alfred Music All rights reserved. rinted in USA. ISBN-10: 1-706-1992-X ISBN-13: 978-1-706-1992-3
Contents oreord...3 erformance Notes...3 As the Sun Rose in the Sky...5 The Darkest Hours...16 Surely This Was God s On Son...27 Comoser Bios...38
3 The day e no call Good riday daned as did any other day. Hoever the events that took lace beteen the hours of 9:00 that morning and 3:00 in the afternoon have roven to have had a monumental imact on all of humankind making it one of the most significant days in all of history. As esus Christ alloed Himself to suffer and die uon a cross of shame He dislayed an unaralleled love for a orld lost in sin. In The inal Hours e are led through music and the soken ord to reflect uon those six hours that esus hung suffering on the cross. We find ourselves icturing that scene at Calvary as e symbolically oin esus folloers ho stood grief-stricken at the foot of the cross. We hear the seven hrases that He soke as He hung there dying the most agonizing death. inally e hear the ords that have continued to ring throughout the ages since that riday afternoon so long ago: Surely this man as the Son of God. It is our sincere rayer that your faith may be strengthened and reneed through this musical narrative of our Savior's matchless love and grace! Lee Dengler Susan Naus Dengler OREWORD ERORMANCE NOTES The inal Hours may be resented in a variety of ays. Here are some suggestions for its use: It may be resented in its entirety as art of a orshi service or a sacred concert. It may be extended to create a larger ork by inserting congregational hymns at various oints throughout the narrations. Each of the three choral ieces may be resented searately. The chiming that takes lace to mark the hours of 9:00 a.m. 12:00 noon and 3:00.m. may be layed by a handbell or orchestral chime. (Note that in either case the 12 chimes (marking the noon hour) occur during the oening section of the second choral iece The Darkest Hours. ) If the narration is used it is suggested that there ould be to readers. Instrumental arts for flute cello and chimes are available as a free donload. The inal Hours may be erformed ith or ithout these instruments. 116
[Before narration begins Chimes are struck nine times.] 1 CHIMES (ot. Handbell) NARRATION: (1) It as 9:00 in the morning hen they crucified our Lord 9:00 on hat might have otherise been a very ordinary riday. All over erusalem eole ere going about their everyday activities the things that alays occuied their mornings. Yet on that morning the morning of the day e no call Good riday they bound our Lord. They led Him aay to be tried. They beat Him. They sat on Him and they mocked Him. (2) What ossible evil had He done Everything about Him seemed altogether good altogether loving. Yet that morning at 9:00 they crucified my Lord. 116
ACCOM. AS THE SUN ROSE IN THE SKY Words by SUSAN NAUS DENGLER (ASCA) LUTE* 2 Mournful unhurried (q = ca. 60).. Do not lay cued notes hen flute is resent..... Music by LEE DENGLER (ASCA) Incororating My Lord What a Morning! Traditional Siritual. 5 3 (lute tacet)... #.. 6 S.A. a temo freely. -. # - T.B. My Lord... a temo hat a morn - ing! My Lord hat a morn - ing! Oh. morn-ing! Oh (Accomanist may double voices if desired.) * 8.5x11 df of the lute art is available for free donload at alfred.com/choralarts (enter 116 in the search field). 201 ALRED MUSIC All Rights Reserved. rinted in USA. THE CCLI LICENSE DOES NOT GRANT ERMISSION TO HOTOCOY THIS MUSIC. # - 116
6 10. # my Lord hat a morn - ing hen they nailed You to the n. 13 a temo Ó 3 cross. Ó 13 LUTE Ó a temo - f f 116
16 SORANO / ALTO a temo Ó 18.. 7 As the sun rose in the. (lute tacet).... a temo.. 19. sky and the.. birds took u their mourn - ful cry in that.. 22.... dim.. hour the Lord as cru - ci -fied; as the sun rose in the.... dim.. 116