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Support I'm not a specialist in Gregorian chant, but I enjoyed hearing this. The ambience is lovely, and I have no issue with the vocal qualities. This melody is much used, for example in a sublime setting by Victoria, beautifully performed here. (Click track 1; then get that CD, or download the MP3; light a candle in the dark, and wind up the ...
Ave Maria is a 1964 motet by Franz Biebl, composed for double choir, a large four-part choir and a three-part choir which can be performed by soloists.It is a setting of part of the Latin liturgical Angelus prayer, which contains the Ave Maria (Hail Mary) as a refrain.
The Hail Mary (Latin: Ave Maria) or Angelical salutation [1] [2] is a traditional Catholic prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke : the Angel Gabriel 's visit to Mary (the Annunciation ) and Mary's subsequent visit to Elisabeth , the mother of John the Baptist ...
Ave, cujus nativitas, Nostra fuit solemnitas, Ut lucifer lux oriens, Verum solem praeveniens. Ave, pia humilitas, Sine viro fecunditas, Cuius annunciatio, Nostra fuit salvatio. Ave, vera virginitas, Immaculata castitas, Cuius purificatio Nostra fuit purgatio. Ave praeclara omnibus, Angelicis virtutibus, Cujus fuit assumptio Nostra glorificatio ...
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
Throughout the centuries Marian music has grown and progressed, and witnessed a resurgence along with the Renaissance, e.g. with the composition of the Ave Maria motet by Josquin des Prez. The tradition continued with a number of great composers up to the late 19th century, e.g. with Giuseppe Verdi 's Ave Maria in 1880 followed by his Laudi ...
Ave Maria (Hail Mary), [1] WAB 6, is a sacred motet by Anton Bruckner, a setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria. He composed it in Linz in 1861 and scored the short work in F major for seven unaccompanied voices. The piece, sometimes named an Offertorium, was published in Vienna in 1867.
Ave Maria was the last of the three pieces to have survived during this period, the other two being Otche Nash (1926) and Credo (1932). [1] The original manuscript by Stravinsky was then kept by fellow musician Nadia Boulanger, who later claimed Ave Maria was one of her favorite pieces to conduct, possibly because of its accessibility. She kept ...