Simple SAB pieces for Offertory/Communio
  • theCebuano_Child03
    Posts: 17
    I have just been appointed as the new Music Ministry Head in our University and I hope to introduce polyphony with a mix of homophony to our university. Sadly, I lack the online resources and am having difficulty finding easy SAB pieces. I'm only familiar with Jesu Rex (Palestrina) and Dalitz's Mass for Three Voices. Other than that, I'm not aware of others.

    Please feel free to comment down below your suggestions. They are greatly appreciated :)
  • AdteBeateJoseph3
    Posts: 46
    Kevin Allen’s collections available at CCwatershed. The Motecta Trium Vocum is a good starter; he has two other collections called the Stowe Missal Motets and Matri Divinae Gratiae. You’re looking at about 15 or so useful motets for all year round use!
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  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,366
    There's a collection of accompanied SAB pieces called "Oremus" by Fr Carlo Rossini. It's (mostly?) arrangements of other pieces found in his other books. Message me if you want me to send you a PDF.
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  • davido
    Posts: 1,069
    Search for “SAB motets Kwasniewski” on this forum, and you should find a thread with some useful music you can download
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  • rich_enough
    Posts: 1,063
    Here are some links to past posts on the Forum that may help:
    SAB(aritone) Pieces?
    A Cornucopia of SAB Motets

    I've found these SAB motets particularly useful and beautiful:
    Muelas - Vox calmantis in deserto (attached)
    Morales - Puer natus est
    Asola - O vos omnes (attached)
    Lassus - Cor meum conturbatum est (links to more 3-voice pieces by Lassus here)

    And two gems by Palestrina I've paired together (attached):
    Palestrina – Pars mea / Bonus est Dominus
    Palestrina - Pars mea - Bonus est Dominus - SAT.pdf
    71K
    Muelas - Vox clamantis in deserto - SAB (ed Schmitt).pdf
    49K
    Asola - O Vos Omnes - SABar (in D).pdf
    85K
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  • Quaerens
    Posts: 17
    I posted some of these yesterday in another thread...

    Jesu Salvator mundi - Menegali (very easy and beautiful, we repeat it 3x)
    Christus factus est - Yon
    Te Joseph celebrent & Pascha nostrum - Ravanello (a lot of Ravanello seems to be 3v)
    Ave Maria - Franck
    O esca viatorum - JM Haydn
    Adoro te o panis caelice - JM Haydn - is actually SATB + organ, but incredibly simple, and you don't have to have the organ, though it's nice
    Panis angelicus - Casciolini
    O gloriosa virginum - attr. Palestrina, have seen both 3v and 4v versions
    Magnificat a 3 - Dalitz
    Praeclara custos - Besnier
    Non nobis Domine - canon - sometimes attr. Byrd
    Stabat Mater - Tartini (a bit more challenging than the the other pieces listed)



  • Xopheros
    Posts: 41
    As you have mentioned one of my mass settings, you might be interested that you can find many more in the index by number of voices on my website. Apart from two other masses for three voices (one in the style of Mozart (in E major) and one in Renaissance counterpoint (over the solemn Salve Regina tone)) there are also motets like "Ascendit Deus", "Tollite portas" and some Latin hymns (Salve festa dies, O filii et filiae, Veni redemptor, Vexilla regis, Christe qui lux es et dies) and also a three part motet for Pentecoste (Venu Sankta Spirito).

    And if you have not yet noticed it, you can do a multi-category search on CPDL, which, however, will yield tons of results in which you must dig out what might be useful.
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