This is part of an ongoing series of equal-voice fauxbourdons designed to accompany antiphons and psalmody for both the Mass and the Divine Office.
These are easily adaptable for a schola of any size. Sing a few verses with the Gloria Patri or all the verses depending on the time needed for the distribution of communion and its procession. The antiphonal nature along with the mix of plainchant and polyphony are sure to make any liturgy all the more solemn and prayerful.
Need this set to a different Communio text or for SSA or ATB? Contact me and we'll make it happen.
n.b. The recording below uses a different text but the music is the same.
Tone 8 (TTB) Communio fauxbourdon: Domine memorabor_In te Domine | 2022
Ps. 70
O Lord, I will be mindful of thy justice alone. Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: And unto old age and grey hairs: O God, forsake me not.
1. In thee, O Lord, I have hoped, let me never be put to confusion: deliver me in thy justice, and rescue me.
2. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a place of strength: that thou mayst make me safe.
3. For thou art my patience, O Lord: my hope, O Lord, from my youth.
4. By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother’s womb thou art my protector.
5. Cast me not off in the time of old age: when my strength shall fail, do not thou forsake me.