Ave Regina Caelorum (2019)
from Four Marian Antiphons (2019-20)
Votive antiphon; Trope: ‘Funde, virgo’
SATB
Duration:
3′
First performance:
4 October 2019
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener, Cumnock Old Church, Cumnock, UK
French premiere:
30 July 2022
Caritas Chamber Choir, Benedict Preece, Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille Cathedral, Lille, France
American premiere:
18 February 2024
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church Choir, Brent te Velde, St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Score
Programme note
Ave Regina Caelorum is a simple setting of the well-known Marian Antiphon (though including a short section of the trope Funde, virgo). It carries on a current desire to write shorter, easier motets that are more accessible to a wider range of choirs, though still retaining the thumbprints of my mature style. The motet is in a simple ABA form, with a more expressive middle section bookended by contemplative, homophonic material and a sustained ‘Amen’.
PAC
