The ongoing quest for an acceptable Palm Sunday entrance song continues.
This Cyprian Consiglio song is better than some of the hymns for this purpose I’ve used in the past but its only a maybe. The text is a bit clunky, “loudly did they sing” is English not as it spoken is. The verses go too high for an assembly and I suppose really are only for a cantor, and the F natural notes aren’t.
OCP sell the sheet music and they provide the text in their preview.
I couldn’t recreate the finger cymbal feel so I leaned in the Latin direction for my BIAB backing.
The original benefits from less instrumentation: