Commissioned by Dennis Keene and Voices of Ascension

Quem pastores laudavere

Traditional JAMES BASSI
trans. Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott
Largo sostenuto q = 44

 
p legato

                       
     
  
SOPRANO
ALTO
  

                     
oo oo oo

   
           
TENOR
BASS

p legato

   
Poco più mosso q = 48
 
          
5 cantabile e legato

   
mf
 
      
mp

(oo) oo Quem pas -

Shep - herds

                 
         
  mp

   
9

       
      
       

- to - res lau - da - ve - re, Qui - bus an - ge - li di -

   
sang their prais - es o'er him, Called by an - gels to a -

           
 
       

    
12

               
    
  
- xe - re, Ab - sit vo - bis iam ti - me - re, Na - tus
- dore__ him: "Have no fear, but come be - fore him: __ Born is

           
     
 
Words: Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott from "The New Oxford Book of Carols." Copyright © 1992, Oxford University Press.
Used by Permission. All rights reserved.
Music: Copyright © 2007, Oxford University Press, Inc. Printed in the USA
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 198 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10016
Photocopying this copyright material is ILLEGAL
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  
S.      

15 Flowing q = 56
  
  
est rex glo - ri - ae.


now your glor - ious King!"

A.      
    
 
est rex glo - ri - ae.


now your glor - ious King!"

     
**(FULL SECTIONS, SMALL GROUP, or QUARTET)

  
mp sempre legato

        
 
T.

est rex glo - ri - ae. Ad quem ma - gi am - bu -

now ____ your glor - ious King!" East - ern sa - ges came to

 
    

  
    

mf sempre legato

B.       
mp
est rex glo - ri - ae. Ad quem ma - gi am - bu -
now your glor - ious King!" East - ern sa - ges came to

  Flowing q = 56

         
            

* mp
  

       
        


                 
18

T. 1   
 - la - bant, Au - rum thus myrr - ham por - ta - bant, Im - mo -
view him, Ju - dah's con - qu'ring Li - on knew him, Gold and

      
mf
      
   

T. 2
- la - bant, Au- rum thus

  mp 
myrr- ham por - ta - bant, Im - mo -


view him, Ju- dah's con - qu'ring Li - on knew him, Gold and

           
Bar.  
- la - bant, Au- rum thus myrr- ham por - ta - bant, Im - mo -


 
view him, Ju- dah's con - qu'ring Li - on knew him, Gold and

B.
             
- la - bant, Au- rum thus myrr- ham por - ta - bant, Im - mo -
view him, Ju - dah's con - qu'ring Li - on knew him, Gold and

         
        
      
               
        
* Keyboard reduction for rehearsal only.
** Mm.16–25 may be voiced either TTBB or ATBB, with the altos singing the Tenor 1 part in the tenor range.