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Originally written for the Arizona State University Men's choir, this TTBB arrangement of 'Gaudete' has been performed by the Phoenix Chorale, Solis Camerata, and the Orpheus Male Chorus of Phoenix. This version is a vivacious and robust version of the carol, for male chorus.

In 1582, a collection of sacred and secular songs and chants from around northern Europe was published in Finland/Sweden. The full name, Piae Cantiones Ecclesiasticae et Scholasticae Veterum Episcoporum (Devout Ecclesiastical and School Songs of the Old Bishops), is known in short as Piæ Cantiones. This collection includes seventy-four Latin songs from Scandinavia and Central Europe, intended for instruction in Finnish Cathedral schools. Carols could be on any subject, but often they exhibited themes about the Virgin Mary or the Saints of Christmas. "Gaudete" follows a standard pattern of that period: Four-line stanzas, each preceded by two-line refrain. The original polyphony displayed a three-voiced setting drawing upon one principle of improvisation known as fauxbourdon.

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