Description
David Ashley White has set this classic text in a brief, expressive, and largely homophonic setting for SATB voices (no divisi) that would be especially suitable as an introit (or a Lessons & Carols offering) during the Advent/Christmas season.
Anthem text
There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu:
Alleluia.
There is no rose of such virtue
as is the rose that bare Jesu:
Alleluia.
For in this rose contained was
heaven and earth in little space:
Res miranda.
By that rose we may see
that he is God in person three:
Pari forma.
The angels sung the shepherds to:
“Gloria in excelsis deo”:
Gaudeamus.
Leave we all in this worldly mirth
and follow we this joyful birth:
Transeamus.
–English traditional, ca. 1420
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