Alma redemptoris mater [002]

Gregor Aichinger

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AR002 Alma redemptoris mater 3 vv

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Alma redemptoris mater

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C I-G2; C II-C1; T-C3. “Alma” intonation (C I) differs slightly from App. 3. Chant is relegated to C I and presented in semibreves for “redemptoris…caeli; thereafter, chant is paraphrased in C I within an imitative contrapuntal texture. Prevailing declamatory text setting with occasional melismas. Cross relation, e’ and e♭’, respectively, in C I and T results in adjacent triads, C major/c minor, to emphasize “peccatorum miserere.” Final F, b♭ signature.

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CPDL 27904 [Choral Public Domain Library]

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Gregor Aichinger - Composer

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Alma redemptoris mater, quae pervia caeli porta manes
Et stella maris, succurre cadenti surgere qui curat populo:
Tu quae genuisti, natura mirante, tuum sanctum genitorem:
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud, Ave, peccatorum miserere.

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Modern editions

[Musica divina, sive Thesaurus concentuum selectissimarum omni cultui divino totius anni, juxta ritum sanctae ecclesiae catholicae inservientium]

Proske, C. (éd.), 1853, Musica divina, sive Thesaurus concentuum selectissimarum omni cultui divino totius      anni, juxta ritum sanctae ecclesiae catholicae inservientium, Ratisbonne.
(pp. 483-5)

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Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work


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