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Use: General, Communion
Required Resources: 3-part choir
Language: Latin
Composer Colin Brumby has set two very useful texts for TBB voices [seminaries and scholas, note!].
Ave verum corpus is a Eucharistic text, particularly appropriate during Lent and Holy Week.
Stabat Mater is a Marian Lenten text, often sung during Stations of the Cross.
The writing is wonderful — the voice parts almost sing themselves.
It is also very practical, with the range of each voice approximately within an octave:
- Ave verum corpus
- Tenor: G to G
- Baritone: D to B
- Bass: G to G
- Stabat Mater
- Tenor: D to Eb
- Baritone: D to Bb
- Bass: G to G
Ave verum sets the full text as a concise motet of 21 measures.
The six verses chosen from the 20 in the full Stabat Mater are:
- 1. Stabat Mater dolorosa…
- 2. Cujus animam…
- 4. Quae moerebat…
- 7. Pro peccatis…
- 8. Vidit suum…
- 20. Quando corpus…
These are set to the same music, completed by an 'Amen'.
These motets may be performed a cappella, although an optional organ accompaniment [slightly different than the voice parts] is provided.
They can be sung by TBB or SSA voices.
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