Maurice durufle composer, arranger short biography. Maurice durufle ubi caritas welcome to the daily download, a handpicked, free, downloadable piece. The following links, videos, and audio files are for choral repertoire and some congregational hymns for holy week at all saints 2019. The link above contains the full musicliturgy plans for these liturgies. As with maurice durufles beautiful ubi caritas from 1960, this setting also. Aug 25, 2009 maurice durufle s ubi caritas et amor.
Its chant based construction makes is it very akin to the music of the requiem. This lovely setting of ubi caritas, which combines the latin text with english, starts simply with the melody in the soprano section, moving into a lovely duet between the treble parts. Colors of love eros norman dello joio come to me, my love 192008 ludus benjamin britten fancie 191976 agape maurice durufle quatre motets sur des themes 19021986 gregoriens i. Maurice durufle choral composer biography cd recordings.
The lutheran church of honolulu was first introduced to maurice durufles ubi caritas at the crosiers wedding on july 15, 1977, when it was sung by the compline choir directed by mcneil robinson. Ubi caritas european masters series composed by maurice durufle. Here is a clickable table of the available midi files for this work. This is my transcription of maurice durufle s ubi caritas in a primitive tablature format that i create in microsoft excel. Though outside the realm of sacred music organ music, in particular he is virtually unknown, marcel dupre 18861971. Original text and translations may be found at ubi caritas.
Find the best clips, watch programmes, catch up on the news, and read the latest maurice durufle interviews. The text of ubi caritas where charity and love are, there is god is an antiphon usually sung on maundy thursday during the washing of the feet. Music is included from palm sunday, holy thursday, good friday, easter vigil, and easter sunday liturgies. Maurice durufle 19021986 was an introspective and highly selfcritical musician. Music notes for score and parts sheet music by maurice durufle 19021986. The french composer, organist, and pedagogue, maurice durufle, became in 1912 chorister at the rouen cathedral choir school, where he studied piano and organ with jules haelling. The meditative text is set so that the freely flowing motion of. The tenors are subdivided into two voice parts in order to maintain fourpart chordal harmony. Ubi caritas has been one of my most performed and popular pieces since it was written in 2001, and i am thrilled that the work is now available for american choirs through walton music. Ubi caritas ubi caritas bob moore gia publications this lovely setting of ubi caritas, which combines the latin text with english, starts simply with the melody in the soprano section, moving into a lovely duet between the treble parts. Maurice durufle composer 19021986 play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. Ubi caritas, an antiphon taken from the mass for maundy thursday, begins and ends with only the darker choral sound of the altos, tenors and basses.
Maurice durufle, westminster cathedral choir, simon. Emmanuel music is a bostonbased ensemble of singers and instrumentalists founded in 1970 by craig smith to perform the complete sacred cantatas of j. Ubi caritas storge eric whitacre the seal lullaby b. Choral sheet music book by maurice durufle 19021986 and maurice durufle 19021986. Durufles enduring work from four motets on gregorian themes shows. Ubi caritas maurice durufle ubi caritas et amor, deus ibi est. Ubi caritas antiphon for maundy thursday ubi caritas where charity is is the final canticle sung during the washing of the feet ceremony on maundy thursday. This is a complete transcription of the piece not just the main theme or an excerpt. The gregorian melody is said to have been composed sometime between the fourth and tenth centuries. Durufles four motets on gregorian themes for satb a cappella chorus, composed in 1960 and beloved by choruses around the world, appears in a fresh new edition with new music engraving and with historical introduction in english and english translation of the latin texts. He became a chorister at the rouen cathedral choir school from 1912 to 1918, where he studied piano and organ with jules haelling, a pupil of alexandre guilmant. Ubi caritas maurice durufle 19021986 armonicos y resonancia. Maurice durufle s four motets on gregorian themes is for mixed voice choir a cappella. Ubi caritas by maurice durufle 19021986 digital sheet.
Each phrase of the text is repeated and the altos alternate singing them in two separate choirs. June 16, 1986 louveciennes, near paris, france life. The hystogmam below is the result of such an analysis perfoemed on ubi caritas bass durufle. As a result, he only published fourteen works in his lifetime. Given a piece of music, it is interesting to count how many times each of the individual twelve musical notes is played, and understand their relative weight, or importance, in the piece. Lent and holy week resources all saints music ministry. Ubi caritas maurice durufle guitar tablature in pdf. Maurice durufle ubi caritas album artnaxos 2min 34sec. Emmanuel music continues to perform cycles of largescale and chamber works by bach, handel, mozart, schubert, brahms, debussy, haydn, schoenberg, weill, wolf, medelssohn, and schumann under artistic director ryan turner. January 11, 1902 louviers, eure hautenormandie, france died. This is the most famous of the motets, and an example of durufle s style at its best.
These files were originally submitted by daphnis on 5, 12, 26, 26 april 2011 respectively. A cappella durufles enduring work from four motets on gregorian themes shows the composers unsurpassed mastery of lyrical expression, melodic line, and harmonic color. Maurice durufle based this famous motet on an ancient plainchant melody. In the new moon john rutter a choral fanfare 1989 ii. Although he was born in 1902 and died in 1986, maurice durufle is not a typical 20thcentury musician. Ubi caritas, composed in 1960, is based on the gregorian chant of the same name. This is my transcription of maurice durufles ubi caritas in a primitive tablature format that i create in microsoft excel.