SAB or STB Motets for 4th Sunday of Lent (Extraordinary Form)

JacobFlaherty

Any ideas? I have a last-minute group of people able to come and assist me tomorrow morning - all are excellent readers.

Hugh

Victoria set the hymn 'Ad preces nostras deitatis aures' (for Sundays in Lent) and there's a 3 part setting of V. 6 within that that's about 40 bars and integral. (There are nine vv, and all the even vv are polyphonic.) So I'd sing v. 1 (chant), v. 6 and then the doxology, v. 9.

http://www.uma.es/victoria/pdf/Ad_Preces_Nostras_Deitatis_Aures.pdf

Be aware that the chant is quite high - tenor or sop.

Chrism

I can't speak for these musically, but they are scored for either SAB or STB and are liturgically somewhat appropriate.

Lent:
Attende Domine (Tyler Rusco)
Domine, non secundum (Cesar Franck)
Ave Regina coelorum (Guillaume Dufay)

Penance:
De Profundis (Jeffrey Quick)

Passion:
O vos omnes (Loyset Compère)
Adoramus Te (Orlando di Lasso)

ChoralWiki categories I scanned:
http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Lent_IV
http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Lent
http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:SAB
http://www0.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Category:STB

You should also look at Marian and Eucharistic motets, as these are always appropriate for Mass. Lastly, you might consider discussing with the pastor the possibility of a devotion after Mass, for the Conclave.

Jeffrey Quick

Thanks for the shout-out, Chrism! Since you brought it up, my piece was just (2PM) broadcast on WAOB from Pittsburgh (rebroadcast is at 11 EDT and is Net-available.) Or go to my page off clevelandcomposers.org.

JennyH

I wish more composers would write in SAB ...

Chrism

Likewise for STB and ATB.

irishtenor

I just wrote a simple SAB piece for my choir on Friday. Might not be great art, but it's not terrible either! Very useful for church choirs of limited ability! PM me if you want a copy. It's a setting of the Hoc corpus / Holy Thursday Communion proper text in English translation.

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