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.
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Communio Faux bourdon Tone 8 à 3: Comedite_Exultate Deo | 2022
II Esdras 8:10; Psalm 80, 2-3, 5, 11, 17
Eat fat meats, and drink sweet wine, and send portions to them that have not prepared for themselves: because it is the holy day of the Lord, and be not sad: for the joy of the Lord is our strength.
1. Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.
2. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
3. For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.
4. For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth
wide, and I will fill it.
5. And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.