I thought I'd share this with everyone. The original idea came when my choir was practicing Jesu Dulcis Memoria a few years ago, and alternating with Palestrina's, "Jesu Rex Admirabilis". One of the tenors of our group, not wanting to leave any group/section out, suggested I write in a fourth voice to the existing three voices...I do not touch or change art as it is, so instead I wrote in a supplemental section for that. Maybe in the near future I can write everything into one script so as to avoid jumping around from multiple papers while singing.
Got around to adding everything together. Should make for easier flow. Let me know what you think if you have time to look it over, I'm actually pretty happy with how the "Amen" turned out.
Jesu Dulcis Memoria (online-audio-converter.com).mp3
I notice that you credit 'Bernard Clairveux' with the text. That 'e' in the last syllable should be an 'a'. 'Clairvaux' is the correct spelling. This is probably just a typo on your part.
For what it's worth, though Bernard of Clairvaux has for a very long time (only since the XIIIth century or so) been credited by many with authorship of the lengthy Jesu dulcis memoria, centos of which have become hymns in their own right which are proper to vespers, matins, and lauds, current scholarship credits an anonymous English Cistercian with this hymn. The earliest manuscripts are from England, from where the hymn spread throughout Europe.
I generally favor the SST version, like in the rendition by the Monteverdi Choir. https://youtu.be/BXQuOQccCWA This is more what I had in mind for voicing, but yes, SSA, TTB will also work.
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