Alma redemptoris mater [095]

Annibale Stabile

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AR095 Alma redemptoris mater 5 vv

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Alma redemptoris mater

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C-G2; A-C2; T-C3; Q-C4; B-F3. High clefs. Entire range, B♭-g’’. Textual phrases are distinguished through presence of chant and contrasts of texture and mensuration. Chant (App. 1), associated with “redemptor mater,” serves as cantus firmus (T) within an introduction (“Alma redemptoris mater,” mm. 1-7); no reference to “alma” melisma. Plainsong articulates textual phrases within an imitative texture: “quae pervia caeli,” mm. 8-13; “natura mirante,” mm. 42-7; “Gabriel,” mm. 60-3; and “peccatorum,” mm. 73-80. Triple mensuration coupled with homophonic/homorhythmic texture characterizes “surgere qui curat populo” (mm. 28-37). Passages in consecutive 10ths set apart “tu quae genuisti” (A/B, mm. 37-8) and “sumens,” (A/B and C/T, mm. 68-71). Final F, b♭signature.

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Annibale Stabile - 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

[Lightbourne 1994]

Lightbourne, R. E., 1994, Annibale Stabile, a Man of No Little Repute among the Masters of Music : The Sacred Music, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à , 1994 https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/doctoral/Annibale-Stabile-a-man-of-no/9926479913001891 (consulté le 13 novembre 2025).
(pp. 58-64)

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Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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