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Gaudeamusby David W. Barber SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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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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