There Is No Rose Of Such VirtueScoring: AATBarBarB (a cappella) [also available as SATB a cappella]
Written: Dartington, UK (2012) Duration: Publisher: Edition Peters Cost: £14.95 (anthology; not available as separate sheet) Jim came across this text when singing Britten's Ceremony of Carols as a chorister at Rochester Cathedral and has since sung many and varied settings; this is his interpretation of words that have lasted over five hundred years, in a setting for men's voices. |
There is no rose of such virtue - anon. (mediæval)
There is no rose of such virtue
As is the rose that bare Jesu; Alleluia. By that rose we may well see There be one God in persons three; Pari forma. Leave we all this worldly mirth, And follow we this joyful birth; Transeamus. |
For in this rose contained was
Heaven and earth in little space; Res miranda. The angels sungen, the shepherds too, "Gloria in excelsis deo"; Gaudeamus. Alleluia, res miranda, Pares forma, gaudeamus, Transeamus. |