Salve regina [020]

Benedictus Appenzeller

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SR020 1.p. Vita dulcedo 5 vv ; [2.p.] Ad te suspiramus 5 vv ; [3.p.] Et Jesum 5 vv ; [4.p.] O pia/O dulcis virgo Maria 5 vv

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[1] Vita dulcedo

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D I-C1; [D II]-C1; [A]-C3; [T]-C4; [B]-F4. Entire range, D-c’’. Range of B, D-b♭. Alternatim setting. Initial pitches of chant (App. 4) introduce appropriate textual phrases where they permeate a dense imitative texture: 1.p., “vita,” mm. 1-7 and “et spes nostra,” mm. 14-7; 2.p. “ad te,” mm. 31-6 and “in hac lacrimarum,” mm. 55-63. “Et Jesum” motive appears in D I complemented by breves in all voices. A more prominent unifying device involves a cantus firmus derived from the first textual phrase of the Dutch liedeken, Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen;[1] nine statements include the following pitches in a variety of long note values concluding with a turning figure of semiminums that encircles pitches g and f: (a, b♭, a, g, b♭, a, (g, f), e, d.

ParsTextVoicePitchMeasures
1vita dulcedoTa5-14
1et spes nostra salveTa19-30
2ad te suspiramusTa38-46
3Et JesumTa77-81
3benedictumAd82-94
3benedictumD Ia92-100
3fructum ventris tuiD Ia100-11
3exilium ostendeD Ia116-35
4O piaD Ia141-7

Cantus firmus statements in pars 3 suggest canon at the upper fifth and distance of eleven breves. Cadential points are emphasized through pedal points that extend for 6 (1.p., D II and T, d), 7 (2.p., D I and T, d) and 9 measures (3.p., D I, d) surrounded by motives imitated in remaining voices. In these passages the B explores the low range, D-G (mm. 26-30 and 130-5). Final g (1.p., 2.p., 3.p.) a (4.p.), b♭ signature.

1. Tielman Susato, Musyck Boexken, Books 1 and 2, Dutch Songs for Four Voices [RISM 1551|18 and 1551|19], Edited by Timothy McTaggart, RRMR 108 (Madison, A-R Editions, Inc., 1997); Susato’s Book 1 contains a setting of Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen by Susato, No. 9, and another by Swillart [Carolus Souliaert?], No. 12. SR333 includes borrowed material from the same liedeken.

Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen / My darling’s brown eyes
En haren lachende mont, / And her smiling lips,
Die doen my pyn en dooghen / Cause me pain and anguish
In alder stont. / At every hour.
Dat ic se sien noch spreken en mach, / That I cannot see her nor speak to her.
Dat claeg ick God en mynen ooghen: / For that I complain to God and to my eyes:
Ick ben bedroghen. / I have been betrayed.
[2] Ad te suspiramus

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[3] Et Jesum

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[4] O pia/O dulcis virgo Maria

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Benedictus Appenzeller - Composer

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Salve, regina, mater misericordiae;

Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae.

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.

Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens,

O pia,

O dulcis virgo Maria.

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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