Hymn to St. Cecilia

A five minute work commissioned by Choir Organ Magazine (UK) for the University of London Choir of Royal Holloway, Rupert Gough. Hymn to St. Cecilia is an English setting of the Latin prayer Cecilia virgo, whose melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic features are punctuated by singing that is sometimes accompanied by the organ and sometimes exposed in a cappella sections. The crux of the piece occurs in the moment that describes how many look to St. Cecilia (i.e. music) "to transform the world’s mourning into the glory of Paradise."