Alma redemptoris mater [004]

Gregor Aichinger

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AR004 Alma redemptoris mater 4 vv

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Alma redemptoris mater

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C-G2; A-C1; T-C3; B-F4. “Alma” intonation (B) differs slightly from App. 1. Chant in B for “redemptoris mater,” “surgere…populo” and “virgo…miserere” primarily in semibreves; only in the latter two textual phrases does chant permeate the texture. The motet exhibits a variety of textures and rhythmic gestures; for the final textual phrase “ave…miserere” Aichinger includes semiminums, fusae and semifusae in the upper voices supported by the cantus firmus in the B . Declamatory text setting prevails with appropriate melismas for “maris,” “ave” and “miserere.” Final F, bb signature.

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- CPDL 27896 & 54313 [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. 464-7)

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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