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The Sounds of Sacred Music

Below are sound selections to aid our understanding of the different styles of sacred music directly referenced in Church documents:

Gregorian Chant:

Qui manducat (an ad libitum Communion antiphon that can be sung at any Mass)
https://video.link/w/GfhAd

Missa de Angelis: Kyrie
https://video.link/w/fghAd

Pascha Nostrum (Communion antiphon for Easter Sunday)
https://video.link/w/nmhAd

Rorate caeli (Introit for the 4th Sunday of Advent)
https://video.link/w/23iAd

Veni Creator Spiritus (Vespers hymn for Pentecost)
https://video.link/w/c7iAd

Ave Maris Stella
https://video.link/w/BAiAd

 

Polyphony:

Sicut Cervus by Palestrina (by the Cambridge Singers)
https://video.link/w/CmhAd
Translation: As the deer longs for running streams, so my soul longs for thee, O God.

If Ye Love Me by Thomas Tallis
https://video.link/w/FnhAd

Exsultate Justi by Viadana
https://video.link/w/7ohAd

Vernacular Chant:

Reina del cielo (Regina caeli in Spanish)
https://video.link/w/tBiAd

Dios te salve, Maria (Ave Maria chant in Spanish)
https://video.link/w/FBiAd

May eternal light (Lux aeterna in English)
https://video.link/w/eCiAd

O Lord, our Governor (Communion antiphon for the 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
https://video.link/w/ICiAd

 

Organ music based on chant:

Rorate caeli Jeanne Demessieux
https://video.link/w/64iAd

Ave maris stella Marcel Dupre
https://video.link/w/49iAd