'Stabat Mater II', an oratorio of sorrow

An introduction to analysis of the use of musical forms as an architectonic technique in the work of Normand Chaurette, this article begins with a his torical presentation of the theme of the Stabat Mater, the image of the suf fering mother in the Christian tradition. Musical works composed on this th eme by Palestrina, Pergolesi, Schubert and Part are then analysed to demons trate the kinship between their composition techniques and those used by Ch aurette in his Stabat Mater II.