Alma redemptoris mater [104]

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AR104 Alma redemptoris mater 8 vv ; 2.p. Tu quae genuisti 8 vv

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Motet

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Catalogue of Polyphonic Marian Antiphons

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Alma redemptoris mater

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[1] Alma redemptoris mater

Polyphonic ensemble SSAATTBB

Two equal choirs. C-G2; A-C1; T-C3; B-F3. High clefs. Entire range, F-g’’. In several ways this setting is related to AR103 which may have been the model for AR104: use of identical initial motives for comparable textural phrases, cantus firmus treatment in C for “sumens illud ave,” similar rhythmic gestures for “virgo prius” all within a fourfold structure. The primary antiphonal technique involves alternation of identical textual and musical materials: “quae pervia coeli,” “porta manes,” “et stella maris,” “succurre cadenti” (3 statements), “tuum sanctum genitorum,” “ac posterius” and “peccatorum miserere” that accounts for more than 40 per cent of the setting. The 2.p. dramatically opens with antiphonal responses of “tu” followed by a tutti for “tu quae genuisti.” Victoria combines syllabic and melismatic styles in declamatory text setting. In V1435 (1600) an organ part was added to duplicate Choir I except for measures 34-36 where the organ carries the B of Choir II since the B in Choir I is silent.[1] Final F, b♭ signature.

1. Victoria “was the first polyphonic composer to use the organ” in his choral works; in eight works the organ was part of the original conception whereas in sixteen other works the organ was added when they were republished in 1600. The organ part always consisted of four parts. Eugene C. Cramer, “Some Elements of the Early Baroque in the Music of Victoria,” in De música hispana et aliis, 2 vols., edited by Emilio Casares and Carlos Villaneuva, (Santiago de Compostella: Universidade de Santiago de Compostella, 1990), Vol. 1, 501-38.

[2] Tu quae genuisti

Polyphonic ensemble SSAATTBB

Description

External link:
CPDL 06615 & 08186 [Choral Public Domain Library]

Associated people

Tomás Luis de Victoria - Composer

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Associated sources

[CENSUS LonBL 34000] GB-Lbl Add. MS 34000
[CENSUS LonBLM G.9-15] GB-Lbl Madrigal Society G. 9-15
[RISM A I, V-1422] Motecta quae partim, Gardano, 1583 [44]
[RISM A I, V-1423] Motecta quae partim, Tini, 1589 [44]
[RISM A I, V-1424] Cantiones sacrae Thomae Ludovici, Mayer, 1589 [44]
[RISM A I, V-1425] Motecta que partim quaternis, Gardano, 1603 [43]
[RISM A I, V-1430] Thomae Ludovici a Victoria Abulensisi cantica B, Zannetti, 1581 [18]
[RISM A I, V-1435] Thomae Ludovici de Victoria Abulensis Sacrae Caesareae, Flandre, 1600 [12]

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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

[Thomae Ludovici Victoria Abulensis]

Victoria, T. L. de, 1911, Thomae Ludovici Victoria Abulensis : opera omnia, Pedrell F. (éd.), Lipsiae.

(pp. 73-80)

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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