Byrd’s Ave Verum in A Minor
  • StPatrick
    Posts: 31
    Hi, does anyone have a PDF of Byrd’s Ave Verum in A minor? This key will work much better for our choir, but our alto has perfect pitch and I’d like to make it easier for her to read as she is relatively new to this type of singing. Thank you!!
  • m_r_taylor
    Posts: 377
    https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Ave_verum_corpus_(William_Byrd)

    Down the page, a version marked as being in A minor by Mark Donnelly.

    The link doesn't display properly, but copy and paste the complete URL into a browser and it should take you there.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,616
    eww, no, that edition is not great.

    I would suggest taking the score file for Allen Garvin's edition (he does them in Lilypond but the musicxml file is not so bad to work with) and transposing it. You might have to clean up the score a little bit, but it won't require too much work compared to some of the other editions.
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,306
    Ave verum corpus (William Byrd)

    The above link to the Byrd at CPDL was obtained by using the following code:

    <a href="https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Ave_verum_corpus_(William_Byrd)">Ave verum corpus (William Byrd)</a>
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