Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Christmas Motets
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9780193437043
- Composers: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), Michael Praetorius (1571-1621), Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), César Cui (1835-1918), William Byrd (1539-1623), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), Mateo Flecha (1481-1553), Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654), Richard Dering (1580-1630), Jean Mouton (1459-1522), Jacob (Handl) Gallus (1550-1591), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Peter Philips (1560-1628), Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)
- Editor: John Rutter (1945-)
- 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.
Works:
- Bruckner: Virga Jesse, WAB 52
- Byrd: O magnum mysterium
- Byrd: Beata virgo
- Cui: Magnificat
- Dering: Quem vidistis, 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
