Ave Maria

mmeladirectress

at this time we sing the following Ave Marias:
* Arcadelt *(SATB)
* Gregorian
* de Groote (SA)

I would like to add two more - or even three - need pieces that are a cappella & within the reach of a mixed choir, 9 adults.
The previously-ascribed-to-de-Victoria will be one, and am wondering which ones you all use.
thanks!

Incardination

Cottone has a very nice Ave. Have you considered using one of the Propers as an additional Ave Maria? It's a nice way to introduce the choir to the Common of our Lady if they are not otherwise familiar... just a thought.

Kathy

Franck

CHGiffen

You might give my rather easy and accessible SATB setting a try. It's posted here in this thread at the forum, as well as at CPDL.

StimsonInRehab

Dom Lorenzo Perosi has a nice SATB setting. (Not to be confused with the 2-voice)
Fr. Franz Xavier Witt has one for TTBB.
Refice - SATB
Cosetti - SATB, very easy
Canniciari - SATB
Casali, SATB
Ravanello - SSA
Sr. Bocard - SSA

You can find all of these on cpdl, except the last one; I've attached the file for you.

tomjaw

We sing the Parsons it is beautiful but not easy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20111212203931/https://www.millertheatre.com/parsons/latinpdf/AveMaria.pdf

francis

Not exactly to your specifications, but heh... maybe an alternative to Schubert? (can be sung in any key... I have Sibelius... how low can you go????) [i might even have this on my computer as satb]

francis

satb...

mmeladirectress

Schubert?! never.....
Gounod?! never...

thanks all, keep 'em coming?
I looked at the Byrd, which is not the entire Ave Maria, very nice! https://open.spotify.com/track/4wQQ5sdCrb5a6srHqkUmhP?si=ADVl5ZUaQs6tq1wY6Shk9Q

melofluent

Stravinsky. Seriously. Stravinsky.
https://youtu.be/RkWrQVeWg4s
Dale Warland, edited version

StimsonInRehab

"Never say never whatever you do . . ."

Royce Nickel

Here is a fairly easy SATB setting from several years ago.

Richard Mix

Ours, in order of adding:
Josquin (…Virgo serena)
Stravinsky (Latin version with the Amen the composer likened to a "patio" added to a classical temple; the Slavonic has a different alto part as well)
Rachmaninoff (All Night Vigil)
Bruckner (7 vv)

We've also sung the 3/4-by-Arcadelt tune not to the original French text but to the New Church Anthem Book's "O Lord my God to Thee".

The pseudo-Victoria with the plainchant paraphrase is now attributed to Handl, no slouch in his own right; another very worthwhile setting employing the Gregorian tune is Fogliano's, useful as a solo with organ as well. Of course you must know about the CPDL text page already.

melofluent

I had flirted with nominating the Rachmaninoff as well, but as I understand it, the original text, of course, varies from the Roman. There are fully serviceable Latin arrangements.

Rach-story, I was in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) serving as grad assist for a 1988 collegiate tour of USSR/Sweden/Poland. The group of kids I was overseeing ended up in St. Isaac's. They wanted to sing the Rach (in Latin) and I didn't discourage them. About when we'd gotten to "gratia plena" we were surrounded by "museum" guards, thus quaffing our little display of respect.
Remind me to retell the story of being yanked off a train at the Czech/Polish border at midnight for a visa irregularity, and my encounter I laughingly remember as "Communist Deliverance."

mmeladirectress

In the Colloquium 2010 handout (pp196-197)
I find a lovely Ave Maria by Taverner - not yet in CPDL.
Thank you Dr Mahrt!

M. Jackson Osborn

Alas! Taverner's is one of the saddest tales in the annals of Catholic music. His music is sublime and almost without peer. He was definitely one of the Bruckners of the late mediaeval epoch. And yet, he joined the Protestant movement and lamented that he had ever written 'popish ditties'. We, though, may be thankful that he had!

mmeladirectress

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Unless they compose good music. :-)

StimsonInRehab

"Communist Deliverance."

So instead of playing Dueling Banjos they played Dueling Balalaikas?

Jeffrey Quick

Alas, all the Aves that my small group uses are accompanied, including Perosi a2 and an intabulation of the Fogliano Ave for voice and organ.

There's a nice Ave by the unjustly-neglected Polish-American composer Walkiewicz here, but alas with organ.

But an unaccompanied SATB by an only somewhat neglected American composer here.

And of course, if you're looking for Ave Marias in general, this is the place to go.

Cantus67

Taverner Ave Maria. Yep, got that.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4L7cTmcIRVERXQ1em8wVUEwdUU/view?usp=sharing

We also have a couple of other good 5 parts but they may be a little tough for amateur singers. However there are MIDI 'helps' in each of the file folders where these are kept.

Here's the Palestrina
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Wo0VIul2bwuBYrS82ZLZgxnPwCuRBI9/view?usp=sharing

and decent recordings https://youtu.be/uWN-2b6ErgI

And the Parsons
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4L7cTmcIRVEQzZMWFJTTGpINXM/view?usp=sharing

https://youtu.be/v3pDIz9RLfg with a ridiculously old (and bad) version of my score.

Blessings.

jefe

Great post. Voces Angelorum uses a lot of Aves, Salves, and Os in the anthem slot at Compline. We can use quite a few of these. Thanks for posting. Since our Compline Choirs are bi-sectional, men in one; women in another, I don't have a lot for SATB. Below are links to both the mostly male Compline Aves and a file with Aves written or transposed for women. Beware that we have a row of female tenors, so the bottom part may need a male or two if you don't have the lady basses.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5nr1lk2dlv45g3x/AACHicLD-jzN1aluH_wr0Epha?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9kyek4u6rn90rsz/AACb6OWWwSEsT39yLBJI8yXva?dl=0
jefe

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