Ubi Caritas chant-Looking for SATB harmonization
  • Heath
    Posts: 966
    I seem to recall coming across a beautiful SATB harmonization of the Ubi Caritas chant awhile back, but I'm coming up empty . . . what are my options, dear colleagues?

    Not looking to do the Durufle this year . . . minimal forces, as Holy Week coincides with Spring Break.
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
    Posts: 6,473
    not...Durufle... minimal forces


    I have, with some success, used just the antiphon from the Durufle harm, with plainchant verses.

    Just a thought.
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  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,212
    There is a pleasant version by Ola Gjeilo, though it's not based on the chant:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp3IHBSyZKY
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  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,462
    I hear a setting of the Latin by Morten Lauridsen on youtube, don't know how that would do with reduced forces.
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  • SalieriSalieri
    Posts: 3,177
    If you have the Adoremus Hymnal, there's a good harmonization for the antiphon there (I think from the Summit Choirbook); I have used it before.
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  • nun_34nun_34
    Posts: 67
    Fr. James Moore, OP, put together this setting for TTBB at the Dominican House of Studies which could probably be reorganized for SATB. I'm presuming on his permission to post it now, as he sent it me freely upon request (a couple years ago). You can find a recording on the friars' CD "In Medio Ecclesiae".
    Ubi Caritas - Moore (2012 version).pdf
    27K
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  • lmassery
    Posts: 422
    The Gjeilo is wonderful, but not that easy. It took my choir 4 months to learn
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  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    CPDL has numerous harmonizations: start here. If somebody (nudge, hint) were to annotate the list it would be even more useful.
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  • Steve CollinsSteve Collins
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    I've always liked DOM Gregory Murray's "God Is Love" as an alternate translation of "Ubi caritas". It works quite well as a SATB hymn. I think I have the tune paired with the original Latin text in my computer at work? Anyone interested?
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  • Aristotle EsguerraAristotle Esguerra
    Posts: 1,186
    There's one in the Lent collection I put together here. (English only, I think.)
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  • Steve CollinsSteve Collins
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    Here it is. We usually sing it with the congregation in C, but I noticed that goes pretty low if you basses are not so "profundo"! So here it is in Eb as well.
    UbiCaritas-AGM-h-Latin.pdf
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    UbiCaritas-AGM-h-Latin-Eb.pdf
    22K
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  • Richard R.
    Posts: 776
    Here is mine, which you are welcome to use. Happy Holy Week.

    Richard Rice
    RRice_UbiCaritas_SATB.pdf
    80K
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  • GerardH
    Posts: 459
    Could this be the one you're after? Unfortunately I don't know who composed it or where these people got their score from.
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