Soli Deo Gloria

Composer: BRYAN, Courtney
  • This work was commissioned by the guitar duo, Duo Noire,1 and the Diller-Quaile School of Music. The work is dedicated to Duo Noire.2
  • This work premiered in St. Louis, MI, in 2017.3
  • According to album notes for Duo Noire’s Night Triptych, this work is structured “in terms of Bryan’s relationship to the stages of prayer — Contemplative, Unsettled and Searching, Questioning and Hoping, a Prayer, Pursuing, Realization, Acceptance.”4
  • Listen for: subtle hints of jazz5

Sources

  1. “Works,” Courtney Bryan, accessed January 27, 2022, https://www.courtneybryan.com/works.
  2. “Soli Deo Gloria: Courtney Bryan – Subito Music Group,” J.W. Pepper, accessed January 27, 2022, https://www.jwpepper.com/Soli+Deo+Gloria/11194950.item#.YfMd0fiIY2w.
  3. “Works,” Courtney Bryan.
  4. D. Lippel, notes to Triptych, Duo Noire, New Focus Recordings FCR 210, CD, 2018.
  5. Ibid.

Cut IDs

31025