02-304 Crux fidelis sa:handbells.

Commissioned by the Seattle Girls' Choir Guild for
Dr. Jerome L. Wright, Founder and Artistic Director, in celebration of 20 years with the Seattle Girls' Choir
Crux fidelis
Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis:
Nulla silva talem profert, fronde, flore, germine:
Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulce pondus sustinet.
Faithful Cross, above all other, one and only noble tree:
None in foliage, none in blossom, none in fruit thy peer may be:
Sweetest wood, and sweetest iron; sweetest weight is hung on thee.
Jackson Berkey
Cape May and Hood Canal • 2002
6th C. Gallican chant
Tutti
Trebles
*Handbells
3 octaves



Canto scandire, movendo espressivo {q = ca. 138}
f

Crux


fi - de
-


 

ar - bor
3
Tutti
 


u
-



Nul - la
 
Tutti
 


fron -
5
de



Dul - ce
6
Tutti
 
dul -


ce




flo
-
li -
gnum,


no

dus
-


ter
om
-
nes



bi
-
lis:




pro


dul - ces

-

ta - lem
re,

-




in

na

pon





 
    





 
   
     



lis,
sil - va
4
Tutti


  
    

2
Tutti

ger -


su

-

mi




fert,




cla
-
vos,


-
ne:


div. a4 :
1-2-3 4
-

sti

-


net.
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


7 
I-II -III  

 

A


Dul - ce
meno f
IV
IV


9

Bells











C {q = q}

f

Tutti



 


dus

-
cla




su -
dus
cla

dul - ces

pon
 

Faith - ful
16



su -
sti
sti

-
  
  


  


cross,

a


-
-

-
D

 
no - ble
 
Tree,

div. a2

net.

-


  
Crux fi - de -

lis,







  
  
  

  





LV

LV



one and on - ly
Canto scandire, quasi primo
mf

net.
    
bove all oth - er,
vos,

vos,
    
    
     



A tempo, movendo espressivo { q = q }
f

13
Tutti



-

dul - ce
dul - ces

pon

gnum,


gnum,


dul - ce
B

li -



li -
Dul - ce
8
I-II -III  


3
  




in - ter om - nes
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Tutti
Bells
18
 


Tutti
Bells
Small
Group
Solo
Tutti
Bells


ar - bor
u
-
na





E

21



  
f
fi
-





 


and


ar - bor
  
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
on

u




lis,
in










-


  
o - mnes.

ter

no - ble
-

 
no - bi
 


ly


 
 








-
na
  


all oth - er.




 
a - bove
-

one

 

 
 
de




lis:








-



Crux

bi
Strettamente {q = q}


no -




Faith - ful
cross,
p e un poco pesante






19
Small
Group
Solo




tree,
-
 

end solo
div. a4 :
1-2 3-4

lis:



LV (fade)



F Canto, movendo quasi primo
23
 f
 
I-II  
 
Nul - la
f
III-IV
 


 


I-II
fron
III-IV
 

lem



va
ta -








-

sil -
accel.
24


de
flo
-
 
 



Dul - ce
mf
li -
gnum,







re,
ger


a tempo
mf
25
I-II
III-IV
III-IV

-

est


dul -


I-II  

III-IV
wood,
Bells

 
-
mi



-

ne:


ces
cla



and
sweet


molto allargando
 









Dul - ce
 

 

fert,




G
27
-

poco allargando
26 a tempo

I-II  


Sweet



allargando






pro



f



li -
gnum,





dul - ces








-


-



est
iron,


cla






ff

vos,







vos,







-
5





f



Crux fidelis SDG 02-304