Name: Gaudeamus by David W. Barber SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: David W. Barber
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Gaudeamus
by David W. Barber SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Gaudeamus

Artist David W. Barber

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer David W. Barber

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 25

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher David W. Barber

Level 4

Product ID 1433945

Genre Jazz A Cappella Christian Early Music Medieval

Instruments Choir

Product Description

I wrote this piece in 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary

of the Toronto Chamber Choir, a fine early music choir I have sung with since 1998.

Using the opening of the well-known Gregorian chant Gaudeamus omnes (and changing

the text to "let us rejoice in music," Gaudeamus is a five- minute musical history tour

through the various time periods the TCC sings. It begins with plainchant, then two-voice

organum of the 11th-century Notre Dame school of Leonin and Perotin, followed by

three-voice hocket of a slightly later period. Then a nod to the 15th-century Dufay motet

Nuper rosarum flores (which the TCC has performed.) Next comes some 16th-century

Tudor music -- Byrd, say -- including some false relations and a typical English cadence.

Then comes an allusion to Purcell, specifically the pleasing dissonance of the voice of the

Turtle from My Beloved Spake. Then comes a little Bach-like fugue (or fughetta) based on

the Gaudeamus motif. Since the TCC rarely performs Classic/Romantic repertoire, we

jump immediately to a jazzy ending in compound meter -- imagine Byrd meets Brubeck,

based on one of my own earlier pieces for solo piano, but with elements of the Gaudeamus

melody. And all that in five minutes. Phew!

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