Claudio Monteverdi
O Domine Jesu Christe
for SSA unaccompanied
Claudio Monteverdi
O Domine Jesu Christe
for SSA unaccompanied
- Instrumentation Women's Choir (SSA)
- Composer Claudio Monteverdi
- Editor Mark Keane
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Choral Score
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Order no. 9780193554375
Description:
This motet in two parts is devotional in character, with each section opening with homophonic writing before elaborating on close imitative polyphonic lines. The motet demonstrates a mature writing style that would be expected of a composer years beyond the age of the young Monteverdi. The text is based on the first two stanzas of a prayer attributed to Pope Gregory I that contemplates the Passion of Our Lord. Offprinted from The Oxford Book of Upper-Voice Polyphony.