Ave Maria or Salve Regina -- Two Part??

EGrimm

I have taught the standard chant versions of Ave Maria and Salve Regina to my 8th Graders. I am wondering if anyone knows of an arrangement of either of these that is two part (SA), simple and possibly even based on, or could incorporate the chant.

At my parish they sing a chant/polyphonic combo of the Kyrie (using the Hassler Kyrie mixed with chant). I think this would be so beautiful with the Ave or Salve.

Thanks

canadash

I looked around for an SA or SS version of this, but could not find anything. I did find this: http://www.avemariasongs.org/aves/0-gregorian/images/ave.hy64.gif

You could take the accompaniment and turn it into an alto or descant for your choir.

Ben

Chuck Giffen has a great one. The schola I sing in used this as an introductory piece into multi-part music, so I certainly think you could possibly use it with your group. It doesn't incorporate the chant melody, but it's very beautiful all the same.

Ave Maria à 2

matthewj

It's not based on the chant, but a personal favorite of mine is the Saint-Saëns.

Sheet Music: http://www3.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Ave_Maria_(Camille_Saint-Saëns)

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9hEF_c9tfw

EGrimm

Thank you! I'm going to "pound" these out on the piano and see if they'll work for my students.

Hilary Cesare

I have one public domain Ave Maria so far on my site: http://sacredmusicfortreblevoices.wordpress.com/

The Arcadelt Ave Maria would be pretty with just soprano and alto too. I just scanned in the score, but now I can't get it off of this other computer...I will add it to my site as soon as I can (it is an SSA version).

CHGiffen

My own SA Ave Maria à 2 setting is available at CPDL.

PDF score

MP3 sound

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