Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Christmas Motets
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- Composers: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Michael Praetorius, Tomás Luis de Victoria, César Cui, William Byrd, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Mateo Flecha, Anton Bruckner, Samuel Scheidt, Richard Dering, Jean Mouton, Jacob (Handl) Gallus, Felix Mendelssohn, Peter Philips, Hieronymus Praetorius
- Editor: John Rutter
- Instrumentation: SATB Choir
- Work Languages: English, German, Latin, Russian
- ISBN:
- Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
- Pages: 128
Description
Gathered in this volume are some of the finest motets and related pieces for the season of Christmas. Christmas Motets provides a superb choice of pieces for all choirs looking for something new. John Rutter has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-century works, going back to the earliest and most reliable manuscript or printed sources. There are new English singing translations, and playable keyboard reductions in every case.
Pieces
- Bruckner: Virga Jesse, WAB 52
- Byrd: O magnum mysterium
- Byrd: Beata virgo
- Cui: Magnificat
- Dering: Quemvidistis, pastores?
- Flecha: Riu, riu, chiu
- Gallus: Omnes de Saba venient
- Gallus: Resonet in laudibus
- Mendelssohn: Frohlocket, ihr Völker auf Erden, MWV B 42, Op. 79, No. 1
- Mouton: Nesciens mater
- Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est
- P. Philips: O beatum et sacrosanctum diem
- H. Praetorius: In dulci jubilo
- M. Praetorius: Quem pastores laudavere
- Scheidt: In dulci jubilo
- Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
- T.L. Victoria: O magnum mysterium and Beata virgo
