Ave regina caelorum [090]

Juan Navarro

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AC090 Ave regina coelorum 5 vv

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Ave regina coelorum

Polyphonic ensemble SAATB

C-C1; A I-C3; A II-C3; T-C4; B-F4. A likely chant source for Navarro’s setting is the Heronymite Processional of 1569;[1] the chant is primarily relegated to the C and T in semibreves and breves with occasional influence upon other voices within an imitative, contrapuntal texture; freely composed material also plays significant role. Additionally, the setting seems to have influenced Juan Esquivel, reputedly Navarro’s student, whose Ave regina coelorum (AC041) shares the same chant source; specific passages reveal marked similarities between the two 5 vv settings (“ave regina coelorum,” “salve radix” and “vale”).[2] Whereas Esquivel used the Tridentine text, Navarro’s syllabic setting is of the Pre-Tridentine version. Final F, b♭ signature.

1. Processionarium, Secundum Consuetudinem fratrem ordinis sancti Hieronymi (Alcalá de Henares: Andrea de Angulo, 1569), f. 33v.

2. Michael Brian O’Connor, “The Polyphonic Compositions on Marian Texts by Juan de Esquivel Barahona: A Study of Institutional Marian Devotion in Late Renaissance Spain,” Ph.D diss. Florida State University, 2006, pp. 71-6.

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Ave regina coelorum published in Morales’s Opera Omnia is by Navarro.

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Juan Navarro - Composer

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Ave, regina caelorum,
Ave, domina angelorum:
Salve, radix, salve, porta,
Ex qua mundo lux est orta:

Gaude, virgo gloriosa,
Super omnes speciosa,
Vale, o valde decora,
Et pro nobis Christum exora.

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Pre-Tridentine version:

Ave regina coelorum,
Ave, domina angelorum,
Salve radix sancta
Ex qua mundo lux est orta:

Gaude gloriosa,
Super omnes speciosa:
Vale, valde decora,
Et pro nobis semper Christum exora.
Et pro nobis Christum exora.

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Tridentine version:

Ave regina coelorum
Ave, domina angelorum,
Salve radix, salve porta
Ex qua mundo lux est orta:

Gaude virgo gloriosa,
Super omnes speciosa:
Vale, o valde decora,
Et pro nobis Christum exora.

Bibliography

Modern editions

[Monumentos de la música española 13]

Morales, C. de, 1984, Opera omnia, Anglès H. (éd.), Roma.
(n° 18)

[Navarro, 1978]

Navarro, J., 1978, Psalmi, Hymni, ac Magnificat, Rubio S. (éd.), Escorial.
(pp. 351-8)

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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