Help Identifying an Ave Maris Stella
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
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    One of the students in my chant group requested that we do the following alternating version of the Ave Maris Stella:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TacNIbmDZ4s

    More than happy to oblige her; however, neither she nor myself have any idea who composed this version, or can locate sheet music for it. Is it familiar to anyone here?
  • ClergetKubiszClergetKubisz
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    The comments seem to suggest that the polyphony is by Guillaume DuFay, but that doesn't match the polyphony at the beginning.
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
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    ClergetKubisz

    Thank you for pointing us to Dufay's Ave Maris Stella, but it isn't (manifestly) the same piece as the one on the recording.
  • IanWIanW
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    If all else fails, it shouldn't be too difficult to transcribe.
  • StimsonInRehabStimsonInRehab
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    Yeah, my student said she would do that if all else fails. :)
  • IanWIanW
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    :-)
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    It's not DuFay.
    It sounds like a metered SATB hymn tune.
    Nice, too; but I've never heard it before now.
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