I doubt very much that I'm the only one who runs into the situation of having plenty of women in the choir but very few men. (Here at the College, we have a fair number of men who come to practice, but they may not show up at the early Sunday morning High Mass!) It is often difficult to do an SATB motet because neither the few tenors nor the few basses are able to pull off their part, and as the director I feel torn between helping the one group or the other. So, my solution has very often been to teach the choir well-written SAB motets. The results are often just as satisfying.

I thought it would be helpful to other choir directors out there if I share my favorite SAB motets. Nearly all of these were originally written for 3 equal voices (SSA or TTB) and have been arranged for S-A-Baritone.

You will find pieces here for Advent/Christmas, Lent, and Easter, as well as Marian and general texts. First I'll attach the PDFs, and in a separate post, MIDI files for all.