Beautiful Choral Piece Needed for Corpus Christi
  • deo27
    Posts: 10
    Hello all:

    I am looking for a nice SAB choral piece for Corpus Christi. I'm hopeful that someone has a suggestion that is in the baritone range for the men. Thanks for any help you can provide.

    -deo27
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,325
    There's a SAB Ave Verum Corpus by Carlo Rossini in his "50 Motets for the Liturgical Year." I have made a Finale file of it if you'd be interested.
  • deo27
    Posts: 10
    That sounds great. Thanks!
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    I have a Jesu Dulcis Memoria, one verse only, for SAB. The 5-verse version is SATB.

  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 1,023
    Casciolini. Panis Angelicus. Can easily be done SAB.
  • SacredMusicLibrary
    Posts: 113
    One way to do this is to take an SATB piece and have an instrument play the tenor part.

    Organ, Bassoon, sensitive Cello, Viola - even a violin if it does not go below G.

    This is the traditional approach - on Youtube someplace there is a double choir piece by Gabrieli with the second choir played by brass except for an Alto.
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  • CGM
    Posts: 700
    Peter Kwasniewski released a slew of SAB pieces a couple years back. Attached are his editions of
    - Gustate et videte, Asola
    - O sacrum convivium, Remondi


    Gustate et videte ASOLA.pdf
    36K
    O sacrum convivium REMONDI.pdf
    24K
  • canadashcanadash
    Posts: 1,501
    @Sacred... we did this with Biebl's Ave Maria. I had a string trio play the upper part and it worked well. I never thought to fill in the tenor with an instrument. Good idea.
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,193
    While 'Gustate et videte' may be jumping the gun by a few weeks, it's not inappropriate for Corpus Christi, I suppose. Here is an SAB setting that I composed a few years ago that might work well. It's a 3-part canon, with verses in harmonized Mode III chant (could be optional, if sung as a motet), the final repeat of the antiphon is somewhat altered from the strict canon at the final cadence. Enjoy!!
    Giffen-Gustate et videte SAB.pdf
    99K
    Giffen-Gustate et videte SAB-192kbps.mp3
    4M
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • liampmcdonough
    Posts: 297
    This is only SB, but would be very easy to learn

    http://conquest.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7d/IMSLP46779-PMLP99673-MS04.02_-_Perosi,_Lorenzo_-_Ecce_Panis_a_due_voci_dispari_ed_organo.pdf
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,801
    A CPDL multi category search for 3vv & Eucharistic songs gets 64 hits (Corpus Christi only 10). I've used the Buxtehude Lauda Sion myself, though it is more SSB; Charpentier's Ave verum is right in the SAbar sweet spot.
  • ghmus7
    Posts: 1,483
    Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart was written,for the feast and incorporates one of the proper texts.
  • PolskaPiano
    Posts: 255
    Holy Moly, CGM, that Sacrum Convivium looks like an SAT piece.
  • ViolaViola
    Posts: 411
    I'm not sure how relevant this is to those of you in the USA, but the UK Catholic publisher Kevin Mayhew has produced several volumes of church music for SAMen, including Anthems Old and New for SAMen (2 volumes), Short Anthems for SAMen, and some Christmas material.
    We have the first of these and have found it useful.

  • francis
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    http://myopus.com/oSacrumConvivium.html
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,325
    Here's the Rossini arrangement of Perosi's Ave Verum Corpus
    Perosi-Rossini Ave Verum Corpus.pdf
    166K
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,193
    Here is my SABar arrangement of the Mozart Ave verum corpus. It's also downloadable from CPDL.
    Mozart-Ave_verum-SAB.pdf
    97K
    Mozart-Ave verum-SAB.mp3
    3M
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