Opus 645
Ab Ortu Solis (2005)
for Organ
Erik Simmons, organ
Duration: 3 min.
Dedication: for Denis Bédard and Rachel Alflatt
Recorded on Wild Sunrises: Organ Music of Carson Cooman (2011)
Recorded on Zephyr: Music for Organ by Carson Cooman (2018)Publisher: Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc. in "Carson Cooman: Organ Music, Vol. 5"
Performance materials available from the publisher.
Ab Ortu Solis (2005) for organ is dedicated to Denis Bédard and Rachel Alflatt. The title is an extract in Latin from Psalm 113: “From the rising of the Sun unto the going down of the same the Lord’s name is to be praised.”
The basic melodic material is presented at the opening in a harmonization and then developed throughout the rest of the work.