Hassler's Ave Maris Stella
  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    I just found this on CPDL and wondered if anyone has done this with their choir. I've never heard it before. We sing the Victoria setting, but I daresay I like this even better which is almost blasphemous since Victoria is my favorite composer. : ) My schola loves doing these chant/chorus things.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6vOhh8UaAM
    www.muenster-musik.de_files_Ha_AvPa.pdf
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  • R J StoveR J Stove
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    It's new to me also.
  • gregpgregp
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    I love the Dufay version, partly because it's in 3 voices.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-25R_SaDao

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  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    Thanks for this evocative video, gregp. I have never heard this setting either. The intervals are so otherworldly and unusual.
  • tomjaw
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    Julie

    I printed copies of the music you kindly posted above. I left them on the table during our choir practice, and when I came back, our director had finished with the polyphony for Sunday (Ave Maria, Parsons and Dixit Maria, Hassler) and they were singing the Ave Maris Stella...

    If everything works out, we may sing it at Vespers on Sunday or perhaps Saturday. But more likely we will sing it for the Feast of Candlemass next year!
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  • JulieCollJulieColl
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    That's a great story, Tom! Wish I could just leave copies of polyphonic motets lying around and have people learn them on sight. It takes our tenor (my 21 y/o son) a fair amount of sweat and tears to learn his part, but his sight-reading is improving some.

    We had to learn the O Quam Gloriosum last month and I must have played his part on the piano about 50 times (I'm not kidding) with a metronome before he got it, but then he was solid as a rock.
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