Ave Maria - Bruckner

Anton Bruckner's Ave Maria.
In 1861 this was Bruckner's first major composition after he finished 5 years of formal music study in Vienna.

Sung by the Choir of St. Bride's Church, London.


Score form cpdl.org

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• ave
• maria
• anton
• bruckner
• choral
• choir
• anthem

[ecp2014]

Gotta love the suspension at 0:37 !

[DasKindespiel]

bello, muy bello

[avemariaclark]

Beautiful! If you liked this, you should check out the American Boychoir singing the Ave Maria text in a plainchant setting by Richard Clark.

youtube.com/watch?v=ZOB7FuMA1N­U

[gerardbedecarter]

Beautiful!

[Iesuluxvitae]

Belíssimo. Minha música favorita.

[Ronnie2839]

@orvilleschmengy You're in music Theory huh?

[Ronnie2839]

@orvilleschmengy You're in music Theory huh?

[orvilleschmengy]

4th species counterpoint creates the "suspension" here. The notes cannot be tied because of the text. Even nicer is the Ab dim7 chord over the pedal C in the previous measure.

[ecp2014]

@ThaSchwab Harmony and counterpoint work together. Harmonically, you could claim that the first "chord" in the measure at 0:37 functions in C major as ii (or in a minor as iv). But here I think it's more important how Bruckner accomplishes this contrapuntally, carrying over the double suspension from the previous measure. We may "see" the harmony functioning in a certain tonal way, but we hear it as an old-school Renaissance suspension.

[ThaSchwab]

I'm mistaken; the progression I mentioned would be I-VI-I, not I-IV-I.

[ThaSchwab]

@ecp2014

I see the beginning of the bar as a different chord all together (like the downbeat of the second measure in the beginning). It could be a suspension, but I just don't see it. It would be more obvious if Bruckner included a bass note (ex., a bass note in the second measure of the beginning would make the chords go I-IV-I).

[ecp2014]

@ThaSchwab Why don't you think it is a suspension? The E and C in the tenor are held over from the previous bar while the bass moves to D and F. Is it because they aren't tied across the bar? (Suspensions do not have to be tied.)