Nade Te Turbe

This beautiful prayer will be a stunning addition to your concert repertoire! Flowing melodic lines overlap to create a lush harmonic palette sure to touch your audience! Santa Teresa de Avila, a Carmelite nun and Christian mystic, lived in 16th century Spain and is well known for her writings on mental prayer. This contemplative spiritual experience occurs in four stages, and thus my setting of "Nada Te Turbe" holds four as an important and influential number. I wondered what Teresa's beautiful words would have sounded like set to music during her lifetime and in turn what that music would sound like expressed in a contemporary musical language such as my own. As a response I have used canonic and imitative counterpoint to harken the style of 16th century composers such as Thomas Luis de Victoria and reverberant textures to mimic the environment of a large stone cathedral.