Salve festa dies (Christoph Dalitz, 2012)
- Disposition: three part mixed choir (SAT, ATB, SSA or TTB)
- Composer: Christoph Dalitz
- First publication: 2012
- Text: Venantius Fortunatus (ca. 600)
- License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
The hymn "Salve festa dies" is based on excerpts from Venantius Fortunatus' poem "Tempora florigero rutilant distincta sereno". Examples for medieval Easter and Ascension hymns gained from this poem can be found in (see pp. 79ff) Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi II (Leipzig, 1907), and examples for Whitsuntide can be found in (see pp. 29ff) Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi VII (Leipzig, 1903). An English translation of the Easter version can be found at CatholicCulture.org.
I have made a polyphonic setting only for the chorus, which should by sung in alternation with the monophonic stanzas. The written pitch corresponds to the church tone of the original chant and does not require any accidentals. For practical use with mixed voices, the piece should be transposed to the most convenient tessitura, e.g. a minor third up for SAT, a whole tone down for ATB, or a fifth up for SSA.
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- Version for Easter:
Edition for SAT, Edition for SSA, Edition for TTB, (PDF file, 2 A4 pages, 32kB) - Version for Ascension Day:
Edition for SAT, Edition for TTB (PDF file, 2 A4 pages, 32kB) - Version for Pentecoste:
Edition for SAT (PDF file, 2 A4 pages, 32kB)
Please drop me an email if you need a transposed edition for practizing purposes.