Salve regina [036]

Noel Bauldeweyn

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SR036 Vita dulcedo 6 vv ; [2.p.] Ad te suspiramus 6 vv ; [3.p.] Et Jesum 6 vv ; [4.p.] O pia 6 vv

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[1] Vita dulcedo

Polyphonic ensemble SSTTBX

D I-G2; DII-G2; Ct-C2; T [I]-C3; T [II]-C4; B-F4. Entire range, G-g’’. Alternatim setting. “Vita” (“salve”) motto in breves introduces each of the five lower voices within an imitative texture; the remainder of pars 1 appears free of chant. “Et Jesum” motive (B) is relegated to B in 3.p. Chant (App. 4) serves as a cantus firmus (T II) in 4.p. A second unifying device involves the quotation of the Cantus of Ockeghem’s chanson J’en ay dueil[1] at pitch with rhythmic integrity throughout D I of Salve regina; the complete melody is stated for the first two partes, repeated for pars 3 with the first section of the Ockeghem’s rondeau for 4.p. Limited concern for text underlay. Final d (1.p., 2.p., 3.p.), a (4.p.)

1. Ockeghem’s rondeau is available in Ockeghem, Johannes, Collected Works, Vol. 3, edited by Richard Wexler with Dragan Plamenac, (Boston: E.C. Schirmer, 1929-94), No. 7.

Je n’ay dueil que je ne suis morte / I grieve that I am not dead.
Ne doye je pas vouloir morir / Should I not wish to die?
Dueil a mon cuer voulu saisir / Grief seeks to seize my heart
Qui de tous biens me desconforte. / Which saddens me most of all.

Ma douleur est plus que trop forte / My sorrow is most heavy,
Car sans avoir aucun plaisir / For without any single pleasure
Je n’ay dueil que je ne suis morte / I grieve that I am not dead.
Ne doye je pas vouloir morir. / Should I not wish to die?

Je n’ay rien qui plus me conforte / There is nothing that can comfort me.
D’oeil ne foy plus que desplaisir / Nothing could please me more than death.
Mort est le plus que mon desir / Death is what I desire most
Car quelque chouse qu’on m’aporte / Of all that is offered to me.

Je n’ay dueil que je ne suis morte etc. / I grieve that I am not dead…

Translation by Normand Rioux
[2] Ad te suspiramus

Polyphonic ensemble SSTTBX

[3] Et Jesum

Polyphonic ensemble SSTTBX

[4] O pia

Polyphonic ensemble SSTTBX

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CPDL 65535 [Choral Public Domain Library]

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Noel Bauldeweyn - Composer

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Salve, regina, mater misericordiae;

Vita, dulcedo et spes nostra, salve.

Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae.

Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte.

Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens,

O pia,

O dulcis virgo Maria.

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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