Crux triumphans
Sheet Music

SATB choir a cappella

SKU: PE.NDC002

Composed by Loyset Compere. Edited by Ralph W. Buxton. Liturgical Use: Veneration of the Cross. Text: Latin. Choral. Vocal Score. Duration ca. 6 minutes. Notre Dame Choir Editions #NDC002. Published by Notre Dame Choir Editions (PE.NDC002).

Latin.

The music of this expressive motet of veneration and supplication is molded directly from the non-liturgical devotional prayer that is its text. Each phrase of the prayer is given separate and distinct musical treatment, alternating simple chordal declamation with a variety of polyphonic textures, contrasting voice groupings and imitative techniques Ð all used to render the text with the maximum dramatic impact and an almost madrigalian immediacy. Indeed, the work is distinctly "modern" in its directness of expression and in the sensitivity of its word setting.