Welcome to the comment side of the forum. Thank you for the contribution of Three Latin Christmas Motets. (Contributing thusly isn't a requirement, by the way.)

You name two of the motets by their incipits. Is there a reason you didn't do that for the third?

Your setting of Hodie Christus est Natus is wonderful! (They all are, and thank you for posting recordings of real voices!)

Thanks for the feedback. Already I am learning. Never having had any formal musical training in either theory or performance, I have to confess I had to research "incipit" and "enharmonic". I see multiple errors I've made regarding enharmonic (assuming I correctly understand that term). I can't really blame the software for that. I try to keep accidentals (other than naturals) the same as the key (i.e., if the key signature has flats, accidentals should also be flats). Even so, I failed miserably in that regard and appreciate you pointing that out. It's rather embarrassing and I will fix it. I also may have not done Latin syllables (maybe even spelling?) correctly. Indeed, I mixed up "prophesy" and "prophecy". Now that's REALLY embarrassing. I hate spell check. "Coded message from Missile Command sir: we are go for lunch." I'm not sure about "incipits", but I may not correctly understand that term. All three are named after the opening words of the texts. Anyway, I REALLY appreciate everyone taking the time to QA the work and point out errors. I have about 100 things self-published on my own website and I'm going to go back and review them all to make sure I've not made similar errors. Since this is the only Latin I've done, at least I know I haven't repeated all the linguistic errors. Thanks again.

Fascinatinger and fascinatinger.

"Incipit" is Latin for "he begins", roughly. Musically speaking, it refers to the practice of having a few of the first notes of a chant sung by a single voice, called a cantor. In the context I've used the word, I mean "the first words". "The Purpose" is the name of the 3rd motet, but not the first words of the text you've set. What I'm curious about is why you followed this practice only once out of the three motets.

Serviam,

Yahoogled?

M.R. Taylor,

Presbyopia.
Oh well!

Serviam (James), thank-you for your comments on YouTube. But better than the comments, I then had the chance to view material on your channel and your website. I REALLY like your composition style. Frankly, I didn't find anything I didn't like. I share your goal of writing material that is approachable by church musicians of modest skills. These motets were just one of two instances where I strayed into more complex waters. Generally, my stuff is dirt simple (as I'm sure you noticed) and probably would be viewed with a certain degree of disdain by more accomplished musicians. There is so much on your website that I think may usable at my church. I found your "Meditation on Thaxted" captivating. I'll be passing this along to our organist and choir director. Thanks again.

Mark, there is nothing wrong with writing ‘simple’ music! In fact, there is a genuine need for high-quality simple music out there; there’s a flood of poor-quality music floating around, but “simple” and “low-quality” are hardly synonyms. Don’t undersell yourself! Your approachable style of music that is relatively ‘contemporary’ (I use this term with trepidation) but still rings clearly as appropriate for church choirs, fills a real need. I think I may put both of those works I commented on in front of my choir. And thank you for your very kind words regarding my channel too. I ran out of time to go through more of your stuff but plan on reviewing more.