Cypress Choral Music Merci mon Maitre - Belzile/Saindon - SSA

• Composer/Author: SAINDON, MARIE-CLAIRE
• Instrumentation: SSAA ACCOMP
• Model # CP1438

Lyrics: Albert Belzile
Music: Marie-Claire Saindon
Format: Choral Octavo
Voicing: SSA with piano accompaniment (string quartet accompaniment available separately)

Movement #3 from Meditations de la Vierge Marie.

The third movement, Merci mon Maitre (text by Albert Belzile), sets the speaker (in this case, one can easily imagine the Virgin Mary) talking directly to God, and trying to explain with how many ways one could express thanks for this Master that loves us unconditionally. The first part of the movement follows the text in its imagery: "Je veux te dire merci en psaumes, en langues, en fleurs sauvages, en meteores lointains, en meduses celestes ..." ("I would like to tell Thee [thank you] in psalms, tongues, wild flowers, distant meteores, celestial tendrils ..."). We then come to a halt when the Virgin Mary realizes that words are far too limited to express in detail how to thank the Lord. And so, she simply says thank you -- for loving us with an eternal love. There, the music opens up gradually to imitate this eternity, and finishes off simply with a last "Thank you".
Duration: 4:10