John Joubert

Pro Pace Motets

The second motet, which was composed last, is a 10th century Latin lament for the day on which man first invented weapons for use against his own kind, and a protest against such use.

The final motet, the longest and most elaborate of the set, traces the Passion story from its sombre and tragic beginnings to its hopeful and triumphant end. It is a setting of a Latin poem by Peter Abelard, and its function in the triptych is to equate the victory of Christ's Passion with the eventual victory of non-violence.