Alma redemptoris mater [003]

Gregor Aichinger

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AR003 Alma redemptoris mater 4 vv

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Alma redemptoris mater

Polyphonic ensemble SSABX

C I-C1; C II-C1; A-C3; B-F4; Bc-F4. The Bc is basically a basso seguente and not essential to the performance of the music. No evidence of chant. Structure is defined by contrasting motivic material, texture and mensuration. Motivic material for textual phrases is usually introduced by imitation (e.g.,“alma...mater,” “et stella…” and “tu…genuisti”). With a dramatic gesture “tu que genuisti” begins with a semibreve, followed by a semiminum rest and three semiminums that acquires intensity through repetition but resolves into a contrasting passage in triple mensuration and homorhythmic style (“natura…genitorem”). Declamatory text setting prevails. Final g, b♭ signature and inclusion of e♭ and f♯ where appropriate.

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External link:
CPDL 27934 [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.

Bibliography

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. 506-9)

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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