Improperium Expectavit - SSAA, TTBB, or SATB
  • Drake
    Posts: 238
    With Lent just around the corner, I'd like to share my latest composition, a four part setting of Improperium Expectavit, with arrangements for SSAA, TTBB (accessible to baritones as well), and SATB. Free PDF and playback are available at the link below:

    Improperium Expectavit

    I hope it may be of use to some of your choirs.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 527
    really beautiful thanks so much. Not sure if we would have time to learn it this lent, but maybe for the Sacred Heart. Great Job.
    Thanked by 2Drake CHGiffen
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,277
    Just amazing! This really brings out the meaning of the text. Thank you for composing this and sharing it with us.
    Thanked by 1Drake
  • Xopheros
    Posts: 91
    As the text is neither of the commonly known Latin texts, may I suggest to add a translation in the edition and to give the source/author of the original Latin?
  • Drake
    Posts: 238
    Hi @Xopheros. Thank you for taking a look at my composition! I used the text at the following link on CPDL (with option A - consolantem - the Offertory for Palm Sunday from the 1962 missal):

    https://cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Improperium_expectavit

    It appears to be the same as the text set by Palestrina.
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