2 Choral Motets

Heyo! Here are the first two choral pieces I’ve finished enough for feedback. I would love to hear what you enjoy about the pieces, then give any tips about what you think is high quality and how to fix anything that’s lower quality. My main desires are for feedback on the overall feel of the pieces, like the fittingness of the choral parts or the piano. I’ve never written for either before professionally, and these are kind of the test to see if I have potential to create choral music directors would actually purchase. Are these close to professional quality? If not, what could I change?

The goal was to write semi-simple pieces that your average or slightly above average church choir could sing as a Motet or “Anthem” or a choir-only piece during a service. I enjoy purer, diatonic harmonies more, as well as an epic feel at times, so hopefully those come through.

Thanks in advance for any comments you’re willing to give:)

The Assumption:
https://youtu.be/u_uR3quvWiA
Come Holy Spirit Pt. 1:
https://youtu.be/CTrRiL_wY_Q

The 1080 resolution is still not enough for me to be able to see your score clearly with my middle aged eyeballs.  I'd recommend making your videos with fewer bars visible at once so the notes and text are bigger for people viewing on a laptop screen instead of a large desktop monitor if you want them to use the videos as a promotional tool to encourage purchase of your sheet music.  Certainly sounds nice, but I'm too blind to see it to give more detailed feedback!  You can also post a pdf of the score and a sound file for people to use here to review your work. 🙂

I like your "Holy Spirit" but I think the explanatory note at the beginning is a bit too much.  You ask about professional looking scores?  To look professional, assume professionalism on the part of your musicians.  You might write easy parts that can be put together without a lot of rehearsal time, but any choir should understand a simple "stagger breaths throughout" without further explanation on your part.  The conductor/director can explain what that means if any choir members are very new to singing.  

I'm not sure about the direction to take this piece out of time like Gregorian chant.  The accompaniment is very metrical, except for the first few bars, and as such will impose a strict rhythm on the singers.  Did you just mean for that instruction to apply to the first few bars?  If so, then indicate where strict tempo resumes.  If you meant for the whole piece to be a bit loose-y goose-y then a direction for "rubato" here and there may better achieve what you are looking for while keeping accompanist, conductor, and choir together.  Cheers!  Sounds nice!