Simple Motets or Organum for Tenor/Bass
  • philip_1515
    Posts: 12
    We have a small men's schola who are looking primarily for some simple Latin Marian music for two voices to sing as motets. I am trying to find something simple like the attached Tota pulchra es Maria. Would anyone have any suggestions?

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  • PhilipPowell
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    Check out Lassus’ two-voice motets, a couple of which are Marian.

    https://cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Orlando_di_Lasso
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  • irishtenoririshtenor
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    Have you used Fr. Rossini's Canticum Novum collection yet?
    https://archive.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/15/08/26/20-18-33_0.pdf
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  • Jeffrey Quick
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    With accompaniment, or not?
    It'd hard to find things as homorhythmic as this. With beginners, it's hard to get their heads around people singing words at different times. In some ways it's even harder than the more-than-one-note problem.
    Unaccompanied: O Maria virgo pia (anon 14th c.). Pretty homophonic, plus each line repeats, so more redundancy. Chief difficulties are the triplets, and the voices crossing all the time. It's mode V with te (F major) so you'll start it on D or so like chant.
    Accompanied: Perosi Ave maris stella is particularly easy, though all the things from Melodie Sacre (by Perosi and his school) are very doable: https://imslp.org/wiki/Melodie_sacre_(Perosi%2C_Lorenzo) The Ave Maris is in vol. 1
    Once people get contrapuntal independence, the world is your oyster. Renaissance bicinia (Rhau's book), continuo motets, French 19th c. duets, the whole 2-equal and organ repertoire.
    O Maria virgo pia D - Score.pdf
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  • AgnusDei1989
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    Anything from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat — there are definitely selections on CPDL, and probably IMSLP as well. Stella Splendens is simple and a lot of fun, as is Mariam Matrem Virginem. Cuncti Simus Concanentes is delightful, though maybe a bit too lively for doing at Mass (maybe as a recessional, though! It tells the story of the Annunciation, so it would be great for that feast.)
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    My largely canonic 2-part Ave Maria is appropriate.

    Giffen-Ave Maria a 2-TB.pdf
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    Giffen-Ave Maria a 2-TB-112kbs.mp3
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  • Heath
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    Jeffrey, that piece is pretty cool! Any more things like that ready to go? :)
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