Sicut cervus was the winner of the Millennium Composition Competition held by Buckfast Abbey in 2018 to celebrate 1000 years since its foundation. Setting the first two verses of Psalm 42(41), the piece focuses on the theme of yearning in the psalm, creating harmonic progressions resulting in dissonances that only partially resolve; even at the end, there is still a sense of the desire for closure and certainty. Sicut cervus also pays homage to the setting by Palestrina, with a polyphonic middle section to contrast with the homophonic texture of the rest of the work. The first verse of Psalm 42(41), ‘Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God’, is the motto of Buckfast Abbey, which is located at the centre of a picturesque valley on the edge of the River Dart in Devon, England.

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