I teach at a seminary and have acquired quite a library of equal voices music over the years. Much of it is from Annie Bank in Holland. Is there anything you are looking for in particular?

Paul F. Ford, Ph.D.
Professor of Theology and Liturgy
St. John Seminary
5012 Seminary Road
Camarillo, CA 93012-2598
E-mail: paulfford@stjohnsem.edu
Website: http://www.paulfford.com/

Dear Prof. Ford
I am looking for mostly general music for liturgy (Laudate Dominum, Tantum Ergo, ... ) on the one hand, on the other hand masses. We sing each sunday so it is a challenge to sing the right music and alternate it enough !
Dirk Maes

Dear Paul, I got the mass from Flor Peeters ! I even sang with him at the organ, when I was a treble at Antwerp Cathedral Choir, I sang his Missa Festiva with him playing the organ ... I would love to see the Lotti masses, didn't know he had a 2part one.
Thanks,
Dirk

Dr. Ford,

Might you have the equal voices (or ssaa) version of the Annie Banks arrangement of Palestrina's Pueri Hebraeorum? I also sent you an email with this question. Many thanks.

Voces, check out Kevin Allen's Motecta Trium Vocum (excellent collection!) and also this:

http://musicasacra.com/pdf/secunda.pdf

And here's a TTBB transposition of my Non vos relinquam orphanos ("I will not leave you comfortless"), together with MP3 sound file.

Hi Tomboy,

I don't know Who Annie Banks is, but maybe you'll find this transposition usable.

>Might you have the equal voices (or ssaa) version of the Annie Banks arrangement of Palestrina's Pueri Hebraeorum?

Dear Charles, many thanks, we will sing your non vos at Ascension Day !
DIrk

There is also this TTB Mass Setting by Kevin Allen.

Dirk,
Listen to Giffen. He is a great resource and a knowledgeable Roman. Yesterday, I posted a link here to our Compline Choir site which now has a free download of music for Compline Choir. The voicing is mostly ATBarB or ATTB, but there are a couple dozen tunes in there for TTBB. Of course all the realizations of Latin chant music will work with men. If you have some baritones that can sing falsetto, you might try it with our ATBarB voicing. I have almost everything published for TTBB, and there are some very good pieces there and a lot of junk. I need to make a list of them all with annotations.
regards, as always, jefe
In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum
"Life is short. Compline is shorter. You can do both."

There is also the Antologia Vocalis by Oreste Ravanello, to be downloaded from Musica Sacra.

Ravanello's Ave Maria

Who publishes Flor Peeters, "Missa in Honorem Regina Pacis"?

http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/13700/locus-iste-a-deo-factus-est#Item_14

http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/6194/is-there-an-on-line-directory-for-who-might-hold-the-copyrights-for-defunct-publishers/p1

Hilary,
It's only been 4 years since you posted the link. Thanks for the link to SSA and SSAA liturgical tunes, which are short enough to be service music and Preces. Voces Angelorum can use many of these in their Compline. When was the original printing of these. They LOOK old enough to be out of copyright, but it's hard to tell when the collection was printed since I see no title page. My guess is circa 1905.

I do sell for just 1 euro each copy the following Requiem Mass for ATTB

Requiem Mass by Pedro de Escobar (ca. 1465 – post 1535)
(ATTB) original. (Also contains preliminary study)
Available in digital edition PDF files Price: 1 euro per copy*

Pedro Escobar composed this Requiem for the funeral of Isabel the Catholic and it was later performed at the funerals of Ferdinand the Catholic and Cardinal Cisneros.
It is the first Mass of polyphonic Requiem composed in the Iberian Peninsula and whose manuscript is housed by the Cathedral of Tarazona.
Pedro de Escobar from Portugal was one of the most important composers of the Iberian Peninsula in the generation of Josquin Desprez. His work includes the composition of several Masses, a collection of motets and hymns, carols and a number of particularly the Requiem Mass as a whole recorded only once and never published until now. The importance of the Requiem for 4 male voices is that of Pablo Escobar is the oldest known of any composer of the Iberian Peninsula and one of the first in Europe. The work includes the complete works, a biography of the author and the corresponding notes to the edition.

To order copies send us an email and we will indicate method of payment.
* We only send copies according to the approximate number of members of the choir.you might need. If you just one copy to check it out, we send you a sampler pdf of the first part for free.

concursofidelio@gmail.com


With best wishes.
Antonio Ruiz Asumendi (Director of Fidelio)

Pierre de la Rue almost exclusively composed for lower sonorities and his music, although more challenging than the usual Renaissance fare, is incredibly rewarding.

@Richard Excellent, thanks for that we can sing his O Salutaris on the nearest Sunday!

I would love to have a look at it ! Planning our concert tour to Salzburg and Vienna and I always try to bring 'new' music.

Dear Michael, it is lovely music. Would you mind me putting other words to it? The Tota pulchra text is hard to use at mass, and I love to piece that much, I would like to set 'alleluia' to it f.e. so I could use it more often.

VocesCapituli, thank you so much for the compliment. I am so honored that you like my composition and want to sing the piece often.

It is difficult for me to think of the piece with different words because I started with the text and added the music as a restatement of the text. As such, the music feels inseparable from those particular words in my mind. For this reason, I’d rather not have a variation with different lyrics. Perhaps that limits its use to just the Marian feasts of the year or to those days where a Marian hymn would be appropriate during Mass.

If your group sings any of my compositions, I would love to hear a recording, and I would be happy to link to you from my website as well.