Angelus ad pastores ait - Raphaella Aleotti - Harmonium Choral Society Chamber Singers

Goodness and Light - December 2021
Under the direction of Dr. Anne J. Matlack
Harmonium Choral Society Chamber Singers
The Presbyterian Church at Morristown

Angelus ad pastores ait is a sprightly five-part motet with a challenging syncopated “Alleluia”
section.

Raphaella Aleotti (c. 1570-after 1646) was an Italian organist, prioress, and composer.
She was born in Argenta, Ferrara, and lived for much of her life in the Augustinian Convent of San Vito, which was famed for its music. She began to play the organ in 1593 and went on to become director of vocal and instrumental ensembles and ultimately prioress. Contemporary accounts of musical performances in the convent under her supervision are full of praise and adulation. Under her direction the nuns of San Vito performed for Pope Clement VIII and Margaret of Austria. Her madrigals and motets were widely celebrated, although most are now lost. She also wrote for much of her life under the pseudonym ‘Rafaele’ Aleotti, a deliberate use of the masculine equivalent of her own name. --Henry Websdale and Eleanor Burke, Multitude of Voyces, Vol. 1.
https://www.multitudeofvoyces.co.uk/

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