The Terrors of the Night
for five voices (SSATB)
2015
5’
commissioned and premiered by Ping Vocal Ensemble
“As touching the terrors of the night, they are as many as our sins. The night is the devil’s black book, wherein he recordeth all our transgressions…”
This madrigal sets the text of Thomas Nashe’s 1594 pamphlet The Terrors of the Night, in which he examines the causes of dreams and nightmares.
