Downloads and suggestions for simple Motets and Plainchant to cover the church year.

Each can be sung in unison or with harmonies ad lib., and the keys of some of the works have been revised to allow these to be more accessible to the average church choir. Where suggestions link to external music resources (grey boxes), the choristers may benefit from some of these works being transposed down when sung in unison. Links are content that is made available for free, or to where it may be purchased if in copyright.

The page is organised:

• General
• Blessed Sacrament
• Blessed Virgin Mary
• Liturgical year (Advent to Trinity)
• Remembrance (November, pro Defunctis)
• Masses

Also see Useful Music Resources for more links, books and general recommendations, and the Useful Resources section in Using Plainchant Parishes for items of more chant-specific interest.

Where items are not in copyright but are listed as being on other sites, please feel free to be in touch via matt@opendiapason.org.uk as there may be resources that can be shared to place these into a singable key/provide accompaniment, if needed.

General

For more general use throughout the year:

Christus Vincit (Plainchant) U

Cantate Domino (Pitoni) SATB

Deliver Us, O Lord (Batten) U

How Shall I Sing That Majesty (Tallis) SATB

Jerusalem et Sion Filiae (d’Haudimont) U+SATB

Inclina Ad Me (Himmel) U

Jesu Dulcis Memoria (Vittoria) U/SATB

Jesu Rex Admirabilis (Palestrina) SAB

Lead Me, Lord (Wesley) U

O Bone Jesu (Palestrina) SATB

O Praise the Lord (Batten) U

O the Beautiful Treasures (Traditional) U

Teach Me, O Lord (Attwood) U

Tollite Hostias (Saint-Saens) SATB

Available on other sites:
Benedic Anima Mea Domino (Malcolm) SAB
Cantabo Domino (Grandi) U
Come To Me (Rizza) U
Come My Way 'The Call' (Vaughan Williams) U
Day By Day (Warren) SATB
Deep Peace 'Gaelic Blessing' (Rutter) U
Desiderium Animae (Malcolm) SAB
Fill Your Hearts With Joy and Gladness (Quartel) U+D
God Be In My Head (Howells) SATB
God Be In My Head (Wilby) U/SATB
God To Enfold Me (Vann) SATB
I Will Sing to the Lord (Clarke) SATB+Org
Jubilate Deo (arr Bullard) 2-4 voices
Laudate Dominum (Pitoni) SATB
Let all the world in every corner sing (Vaughan Williams) U
May God Support Us (Walker) U/SATB
Misericordes Sicut Pater (Inwood) U/SATB 
May the Lord Show His Mercy 'Celtic Blessing' (Rutter) U
Nunc Dimittis in Cm (Dyson) U
O Come Ye Servants of the Lord (Tye) SATB
Peace I Leave With You (Mendelssohn arr. Hopson) SATB
Te Lucis Ante Terminum (Plainchant) U
Teach Me, O God (Walker) U/SATB
The Lord's My Shepherd (Chilcott) U/SATB
The Lord Bless Thee (Rose) U

Blessed Sacrament

For Communion or Adoration:

Adoro Te Devote (de Zulueta) U

Ave Verum Corpus (Guilmant) SATB

Ave Verum Corpus (Chopin) U

Cibavit Illos (Tye) SATB

Ecce Panis Angelorum (Portuguese) SATB

He Fed Them with Finest Wheat (Tye) SATB

O Sacrum Convivium (Farrant) U

O Salutaris Hostia (Barclay Jones) U

Panis Angelicus (Casciolini) SAB

Tantum Ergo (Barclay Jones) U

Tantum Ergo (Vierne) U

Verily, Verily, I Say Unto You (Tallis) U

Available on other sites:
Adoro Te Devote (Plainchant) U
Author of Life Divine (MacDowall) SA
Anima Christi (Frisina) SATB
Ave Verum Corpus (Elgar) SATB
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart) SATB
Ave Verum Corpus (Plainchant) U
Ave Verum Corpus (Stopford) SATB
O Sacrum Convivium (Barry) U/SATB
O Sacrum Convivium (Remondi) SATB
O Salutaris Hostia (de Arriaga arr. Bullard) SAB
Panis Angelicus (Franck) SA
Panis Angelicus (Lambillotte) SATB
Tantum Ergo - Spanish (Plainchant) U
Tantum Ergo (Laloux) SATB+D
Tantum Ergo (Terry) SATB
True and Living Bread (Blackwell) SAB+D

Blessed Virgin Mary

For Marian feast, devotions, and the months of May and October:

Ave Maria (Arcadelt) SATB

Ave Maris Stella (Grieg) SA+Org

Regina Caeli (Lotti) SATB

Sub Tuum Praesidium (Trad. Slavonic) SAB

Available on other sites:
Ave Maria (Lizst) U/SAB 
Ave Maris Stella (Plainchant) U
Magnificat in Cm (Dyson) U
Mother of God (Tavener) SATB 
Salve Mater (Plainchant) U
Tota Pulchra Es Maria (Corsican) SA

Advent

God of Mystery (Johnson) SA/TB+D

Matin Responsory (Plainchant Tone) U

Available on other sites:
Creator Alme Siderum (Plainchant) U
Lo, How A Rose (arr. Praetorius) SATB
Rorate Caeli (Plainchant) U

Pentecost and Trinity

Veni Sancte Spiritus (Vogler) SATB

Available on other sites:
Come, Spirit of Our God (Rees) SA
Like the Murmur of the Dove's Song (Smith) SA
Spirit of God, Descend (Ogden) SATB
Veni Creator Spiritus (Plainchant) U
Veni Sancte Spiritus (Plainchant) U
Other suggestions for Trinity:
Christ Be With Me (Pachelbel arr. Rawsthorne) SA+Org
Praise to the Trinity (von Bingen arr. Elloway) U

Remembrance

For November and seasons of remembrance

Justorum Animae (Terry) U

Available on other sites:
Beati Mundo Corde (Plainchant) U
Here, O My Lord (Viner) SATB
O Rest In the Lord (Mendelssohn) U
They Shall Grow Not Old (Terry) SATB
Pie Jesu (Faure) U

Masses

For the Mass Ordinary, Several Masses are available to download on the Mass Settings page.

Tenbury Mass (Johnson) U +2-part choir

Please also see the resources listed in the Using Plainchant in Parishes page. Suggestions include::

Mass I – Lux et origo (Eastertide)
Mass VIII – de Angelis (Feasts)
Mass IX – Cum jubilo (Marian)
Mass XI – Orbis factor (Ordinary)
Mass XVII – for Lent and Advent
Mass XVIII – Deus Genitor (Simple)

Full congregational masses available on other sites:
Belmont Mass (Walker) U
St. Anne's Mass (MacMillan) SATB