Ave Dulcissima Maria

This beautiful variant of the standard Ave Maria text has been only occasionally set to music throughout history most notably by the Renaissance composer Gesualdo. My setting is for men's chorus (with three brief solopassages to be sung by members of the choir) and one set of finger cymbals to be played by a chorister. Finger cymbals often formed part of the performance ritual of early music calling the singers and listeners to worship bysong.--Morten Lauridsen

Baritone/Bass 47 Songs-47 songs. Contents: Bring Me My Bride (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) · C'est Moi (Camelot) · Colorado My Home (The Unsinkable Molly Brown) · Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful? (Cinderella) · Dulcinea (Man of La Mancha) · Epiphany (Sweeney Todd) · Everybody Says Don't (Anyone Can Whistle) · Fear No More (The Frogs) · Gonna Be Another Hot Day (110 in the Shade) · The Highest Judge of All (Carousel) · I Rise Again (On the Twentieth Century) · I'll Never Say No (The Unsinkable Molly Brown) · I've Come to Wive It Wealthily in Padua (Kiss Me Kate) · I've Heard It All Before (Shenandoah) · If Ever I Would Leave You (Camelot) · If I Loved You (Carousel) · TheImpossible Dream (Man of La Mancha) · In Praise of Women (A Little Night Music) · Is This What You Call Love (Passion) · Joey Joey Joey (The Most Happy Fella) · Lonely Room (Oklahoma!) · Lost in the Stars (Lost in the Stars) · The Man of La Mancha (I Don Quixote) (Man of La Mancha) · Me (Beauty and the Beast) · Meditation I (Shenandoah) · Meditation II (Shenandoah) · The Music of The Night (The Phantom of the Opera) · No One Has Ever Loved Me (Passion) · Oh What a Beautiful Mornin' (Oklahoma!) · Ol' Man River (Show Boat) · Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd) · A Quiet Girl (Wonderful Town) · The Road You Didn't Take (Follies) · September Song (Knickerbocker Holiday) · Soliloquy (Carousel) · Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific) · Sorry-Grateful (Company) · The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Oklahoma!) · They Call the Wind Maria (Paint Your Wagon) · This is the Life (Love Life) · This Nearly Was Mine (South Pacific) · Thousands of Miles (Lost in the Stars) · Try to Remember (The Fantasticks) · Were Thine That Special Face (Kiss Me Kate) · Where Is the Life That Late I Led (Kiss Me Kate) · With So Little to Be Sure Of (Anyone Can Whistle) · You Must Meet My Wife (A Little Night Music).