Noe! Pastores

In a new setting of Bouzignac's Noe! Pastores, composer Paul Mack Somers drew up inspiration from composition styles of Bach and attention to venue from Gabrieli to pen this three part antiphonal motet. Written to emerge from various locations within the church it is being performed in, the narrator (SSTT) is in one transept balcony, and Gabriel (AABB) is in the opposite transept balcony. The shepherds below by the altar were, of course, SATB.