Four Motets

SKU: HL.48180116

Composed by Marcel Dupre, Laudate is the last of the Four Motets. Written for a mixed SATB and two organs, the lyrics are in Latin and the volume includes all the scores: female soprano and alto, male tenor and bass and the two organ scores. The piece is introduced by the two organs and the male voices are the first to start singing (tenor, followed quickly by the bass). The full SATB then sings together, sometimes alternated by the organs and the organ parts include an outstanding toccata. Laudate is an amazing way to finish this series with a triumphant and glorious celebration of God. The organ scores require some upper intermediate skills, with the knowledge of pedals and the vocal parts, quite demanding, evolve in polyphony and polyrhythm. Marcel Dupre is a French composer and virtuoso organist who won the Prix de Rome in 1914. He became famous when he played the works of Bach in its totality from memory in 1920. He later became the professor of many renowned students at the Paris Conservatoire such as Olivier Messiaen, Jean Langlais and Pierre Cochereau amongst others.

SKU: BR.CHB-5217-02

ISBN 9790004411384. 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

The preparation was like putting together an exciting puzzle: Rudolf Ewerhart had to piece together the parts (printed in Venice in 1620) from various libraries. Since the continuo almost always follows the lowest vocal part, it is also possible to perform the four motets a cappella.

SKU: CA.204140

ISBN 9790007095628.

The fourth volume of Johann Adam Hiller's editions of motets and arias continues where the previous volumes left off, with further motets by Graun, Hiller, Homilius and Rolle. Once again the motets of Theodor Christlieb Reinhold are represented. Reinhold was Kantor at the Dresden Kreuzkirche during the time Bach was Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This volume concludes with four senstive choral arias by the early Bach admirer Christian Friedrich Penzel after psalm texts which appeared at that time as poetic translations by Johann Andreas Cramer.

SKU: CA.2330700

ISBN 9790007009120.

Heinrich von Herzogenberg's interest in the motet form based on a cantus firmus can be traced back to the middle years of his tenure in Leipzig (1875-1885). For three of the four chorale motets (Nos. 1, 3, 4) he chose hymns which were also known as traditional melodies outside a liturgical context and, in two cases (Nos. 3 and 4), were sung by both faiths. Each of the four chorale motets are concerned with suffering and death. With regard to the size of the choir, Herzogenberg envisioned a large mixed choir. Therefore, larger choirs can also sing the motets a cappella.

SKU: BR.DV-7929-02

The seven motets found in the Yale University Music Library in 1994 are believed to have been written by Telemann in his early years, possibly in the decade between 1712 and 1721, when Telemann was Church Music Director in Frankfurt/Main.

ISBN 9790200411348. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.

The seven motets found in the Yale University Music Library in 1994 are believed to have been written by Telemann in his early years, possibly in the decade between 1712 and 1721, when Telemann was Church Music Director in Frankfurt/Main. The collection consists of four chorale motets and three works in which the texts are set section by section. The division in two books (DV 7929/30) reflects their orientation on the church year.

SKU: BR.DV-7930-02

The seven motets found in the Yale University Music Library in 1994 are believed to have been written by Telemann in his early years.

ISBN 9790200471540. 7.5 x 10.5 inches. German.

The seven motets found in the Yale University Music Library in 1994 are believed to have been written by Telemann in his early years, possibly in the decade between 1712 and 1721, when Telemann was Church Music Director in Frankfurt/Main. The collection consists of four chorale motets and three works in which the texts are set section by section. The division in two books (DV 7929/30) reflects their orientation on the church year.

SKU: CY.CC3122

ISBN 9790530110928. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

Jeff Reynolds has arranged four exquisite sacred motets by Renaissance composer Heinrich Isaac titled: 1. Christ ist erstanden (Christ has risen) 2. Ecce Virgo concepiet (Behold, a virgin shall conceive) 3. Esto mihi in Deum protectorem (Be Thou unto me a God, a Protector) 4. Fili quid feristi nobis sic?(Son, why hast thou done so to us?) Arranged for Trombone quartet, they can be performed with a larger group also. They are polyphonic in style and appropriate for moderately advanced performers.

SKU: CA.204160

ISBN 9790007096090.

The final part from 1791 took on a new direction, as was reflected in the formulation of the title: Four-part Latin and German choral settings for use by choirs in churches and schools. The first part, or the motet collection, part VI, from Johann Adam Hiller, Ducal Music Director of Kurland, Cantor of St. Thomas School and Music Director of both of the main churches in Leipzig. (additional parts were not published). The volume precedes a foreword, in which Hiller relates why he composed and published the present pieces. Of special interest is the great amount of information about church music and liturgical practice of this time, which he in part could shape, but in the face of whose traditions he also sometimes felt powerless. So this foreword belongs among the most important documents on the living practice of Protestant church music in the last years of the 18th century.

SKU: CA.2102405

ISBN 9790007170455.

Score available separately - see item CA.2102400.