Ave Maria! O Maiden, O Mother -- looking for accompaniment
  • irishtenoririshtenor
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    This hymn is in the old St. Gregory Hymnal -- does anyone have an accompaniment that they'd be willing to share? Or is there one posted online? I haven't been able to find one. Thanks!!
  • chonakchonak
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    I have it in the SATB edition of the St. Gregory Hymnal: #74, right?
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  • irishtenoririshtenor
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    Thank you!!
  • dannyboi0513
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    I love this hymn.
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
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    R. R. Terry's tune is Edwardian hot house, and not very easy to sing, but lovely to hear.
    The tune appeared in the 1912 and 1939 WESTMINSTER HYMNAL, a melody by Laurence or Lawrence Ampleforth, which is a pseudonym used by Richard R. Terry (1865-1938).

    https://youtu.be/E6i0hQe1GLQ?si=biUVk6nai7i9ZrLt
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  • dannyboi0513
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    The tune in the St. Gregory is different
  • AgnusDei1989
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    There's also a gorgeous minor version in Marier's St Pius X Hymnal... possibly my favorite setting because it's a little less "gooey", to use my sister's technical term. ;) I don't have the PDF on hand right now but will add it later.
  • dannyboi0513
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    @AgnudDei1989
    You mean, Ave Maria THOU Virgin and Mother?
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
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    The tune in Pius X is good, but for a congregation would greatly benefit it were transposed down to f minor.
    Dannyboi... In St. Gregory the title/first line is Ave Maria! O Maiden, O Mother. St. Gregory has a Slovakian tune, as indicated above.
    This tune by Tozer was probably the most familiar and most widely used...
    https://hymnary.org/text/ave_maria_thou_virgin_and_mother
    I was told that the people in the pews were given the text only version of St. Gregory and the organist and choir used the popular (sometimes blacklisted) tunes.
    Tozer's tune has a rather charming and carol like naivety about it.
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  • AgnusDei1989
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    I do like the Tozer setting — that was the first one I learned for this hymn, and it is, as you say, rather carol-like, or perhaps folk-songlike, in the best sense. And yes, @dannyboi0513, I think you're right about the slight difference in text, which applies only to the first line — the rest of the hymn is exactly the same from what I can tell.
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