These look superb. My printer needs a new cartridge or I'd have pounded them out on the piano already, but I can still see that these are lovely harmonies and phrases. (Lots of suspensions in the alto line, too, which always makes me very happy.)

@Salieri: I never imagined you to be SOOOOOOOO young! So many more years to compose.

A question for the Latin scholars, as I'm not sure about the Latin "subtitles" on your scores. Shouldn't they both read motectum cum quattuor vocibus? Quattuor is an indeclinable adjective. And a prepositional phrase with cum seems to me to be what is called for, instead of putting "four voices" in the genitive.

Vocibus is in the ablative plural (third declension). Cum as a preposition takes the ablative.

Yes, I did have the Allen title in mind as well, and from the first time I saw that title I questioned whether it is correct Latin.

These are stunning, Salieri. Such sensitivity and movement. Thank you so much for sharing these. I think you're going to give Palestrina and Victoria a run for their money, esp. since you've got many years before you, God willing!

By the way, I don't know what the correct usage is for the title. I've seen three different ways to do it online. Maybe they're all correct?

Motectum cum quattuor vocibus (with four voices, the ablative case)

Motectum quattuor vocibus (for four voices, the dative case)

Motectum quattuor vocum (of four voices, the genitive case)

Also, quattuor may be spelled with two t's or one.

Latin, a few(!) years out of date, can be tricky. I've run into many variant spellings, for instance "Ave Regina Caelorum". At first I panicked because I used "Coelorum", with a soft C, then realized both are used ... I've also heard recordings of music where the composer spelled "Caelorum" and singers use "Chelorum".

two very minor things: the bar numbers are too low and hard to read, they clash with the brackets; and where a single syllable or ending syllable has multiple notes, often one uses an underbar syllable extender. I still don't like the tieing together of "..-nus" to "beatus" (which nicely comes at the golden ratio point) but I guess you feel it is right.

As to the syllable extender, here is Gardner Read: "

When a word or syllable is to be so extended, a straight, unbroken line called an extender is drawn from the end of the one word (or syllable) to a position under the last note on which is is sung."

And later, "The hyphen "... [between syllables] ... " and the extender must be clearly differentiated in level: the hyphen centered, the extender drawn on a level with the bottom of the word it follows.

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