Salve regina [317]

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SR317 Vita dulcedo 5 vv ; [2.p.] Ad te suspiramus 5 vv ; [3.p.] Et Jesum 5 vv ; [4.p.] O pia 5 vv

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[1] Vita dulcedo

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C[1]-G2; A-C2; T-C3; Q-C3; B-F3. High clefs. Entire range, G-g’’. Alternatim setting. Chant (App. 4) serves as a cantus firmus in breves in pars 4 (“O pia,” mm. 141-60), introduces pars 2, as well as specific textual phrases all within an imitative, polyphonic texture: “et spes…salve,” mm. 15-24; “gementes et flentes,” mm. 45-48; “benedictum,” mm. 83-88; “fructum ventris,” mm. 96-106; and “nobis,” mm. 104-20. Although T and B allude to “Et Jesum” motive (mm. 71-3), the motive is quoted in A as semibreves and breves (mm. 78-81) in what is essentially an introduction to pars 3. Development of motivic material is characteristic of the antiphon; however, pars 3 comprised of 67 mm. best exemplifies the procedure. Motives also unify the antiphon. Two countersubjects in pars 1 correspond with motives in subsequent versets.
A motive in mm. 2-4 of A (g1, e♭1, c1, g1, d1) returns in all voices of pars 4; a second motive in mm. 2-4 of Q (g, b♭, c1, d1, g) accords with plainchant motive associated with “Ad te” (beginning of pars 2). A full voice texture prevails with the exception of imitative passages, and a segment alternating between 2, 3, and 4 voice statements of the text “post hoc exilium ostende” (mm. 120-30). Final g, b♭signature.

1. Cantus for partes 1 and 2 unavailable for transcription.
[2] Ad te suspiramus

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[3] Et Jesum

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[4] O pia

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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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Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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