Miserere mei, Deus: new concise motet a 3 for Lent
  • Xopheros
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    For an upcoming service for which our family was asked to sing, I needed something short and simple for three voices. As it might be useful for others, too, I have attached the piece and also posted it on the web.

    The text is taken from the gradual of Ash Wednesday, but it fits for the entire Lent period. It is in an early baroque style with different affects for the two verses, and the organ is optional. When we quickly tried it out today with our family, the others were reminded at some points of Lasso's Prophetiae Sibyllarum, but I find the chromaticisms less enforced.
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  • smt
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    Thank you very much. Is there a possibility to get an impression of the piece, a recording or a midi?
  • Xopheros
    Posts: 85
    @smt Hopefully, we will make a recording in the future (SAT with theorbo), but this will presumably not be before May. For the meantime, I have attached a horribly sounding computer generated audio file, so you can at least get a rough idea. The continuo line is just the bass line and no figures realised, and there is neither text nor any musical expression, of course.
    miserere-generated.mp3
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