Like the lily

Like the lily is for viola, bass, and electronic sound. The sounds in the electronic part makes this part of my "bulb" series (started with Winter aconites), but the instrument parts are different from the other "bulb" pieces, and include references to Gregorian chant.

There is also a version of this piece for viola and cello. I'm currently working on a new version of the piece for members of the viol consort Parthenia.

Liuh-Wen Ting and Troy Rinker perform Like the lily on my CD Centre Bridge from Mode Records

Site for Like the lily at the AMC Online Library (includes an excerpt of the score).

Like the lily was inspired by the chant Alleluia: Justus germinabit, which appears in the Liber Usualis for the Feast of St. Joseph, March 19. The text for the chant, (dervied from the Book of Hosea) is:

Justus germinabit sicut lilium: et florebit in aeternum ante Dominum. Alleluia.

(The just shall spring like the lily: and shall flourish forever before the Lord. Alleluia)

I was brought up Catholic. According to the Catholic church, these chants (such as Justus germinabit) were dictated by God to St. Gregory the Great.

An excerpt of the score for the piece is available for download in PDF format from NewMusicJukebox here.

On Mode Records: Centre Bridge.