Memento Homo: Ash Wednesday
  • AATB setting of the text for the distribution of the ashes.

    My conception of the piece is that it should operate like similar texts for the distribution of palms or candles, or perhaps like the antiphon for the Invitatory Psalm at Matins. (The "altera" would begin with the tenor part "Et in pulverem" in measure 23.) Which psalm seems most appropriate for a Mode 4 chanting between iterations of this music, on Ash Wednesday?

    Comments welcome.
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  • rollingrj
    Posts: 351
    I think the obvious answer is Psalm 50/51--"Miserere".
  • RollingRJ,

    Yes, that's certainly one, and high on the list of obvious choices.
    I had also "Domine, probasti me", or "In exitu Israel", in mind, for different reasons.
  • bumping for the season
  • Does anyone happen to have the Miserere in mode 4?
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,460
    No, but if I wanted one I could use Ben Bloomfield's Psalm Tone Tool to write it out for me.