Revised: Ave Maria a 3 (Charles H. Giffen), SAB, SST, TTB

CHGiffen

In an earlier thread, I posted a 3-part setting of Ave Maria. This weekend, I finished revising this piece, making it (I think) a better work. The new SAB score has just been published at CPDL, but for convenience of readers of this forum, I am attaching the PDF score and a 112kb/s MP3 sound file of this motet (the MP3 at CPDL is recorded at 160kb/s).

Comparison with the original edition shows that: (1) the note values have been halved; (2) the text underlay has been significantly improved; (3) the Medius (Alto) part has two notes altered by a half-step (indicated as musica ficta in the score); and (4) the same part has two cadences that have been turned into 4-3 suspensions.

If anyone is interested, there are also available three MP3 sound files with individual parts emphasized, one each for the Soprano, Alto, and Bass parts.

I have also made two transpositions, one for SAT (up a minor third) and one for ATB (down a minor third), which I shall publish in due course.

Chuck Giffen

Ben

Dangit, Chuck. Now I have to relearn it. :)

Really though, this is the first polyphonic piece I learned, and I really enjoyed it, and I like your revision even more. Good work, as always. I think putting into 4/4 and 3/4 is a good idea for readability.

I would love the sound files, as I may use this in the future with others.

CHGiffen

Sorry about that, Ben, but I'm glad you do like the revision more. Thanks for the good words.

Since you asked, and I know of at least one more person that would like the part-emphasized sound files, I'm attaching them herewith.

Note: (2:00am CDT, April 23) ... I mistakenly uploaded part-emphasized sound files for the original setting. These have now been replaced by the correct sound files for the revised setting. Sorry for any inconvenience.