There Is No Rose

from Three English Carols

SATB a cappella
Duration: 2.5 Minutes
Text: Anonymous, 15th century
Year: 2002

Premiered by: EAMA Summer Program Choir, Mark Shapiro, director, Eglise Saint-Séverin, Paris, France

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  • There is no rose of such virtue
    As is the rose that bare Jesu.
    Alleluia.

    For in this rose contained was
    Heaven and earth in little space.
    Res miranda.

    By that rose we may well see
    There be one God in Persons Three.
    Pares forma.

    The angels sung the shepherds to,
    “Gloria in excelsis Deo.”
    Gaudeamus.

    Then leave we all this worldly mirth
    And follow we this joyous birth.
    Transeamus.

  • There is no rose was premiered at Eglise Saint-Severin in Paris, France during the summer of 2002. The performing choir was made up of students from the Schola Cantorum and European American Musical Alliance Summer Program, and was directed by Mark Shapiro.

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    “This anonymous 15th-century text is variously set with the Latin response reiterated after each of the five verses–the last with a descant. There is some divisi. It would be ravishing with a good choir.”

    The American Organist, October 2004