Salve regina [083]

Pedro de Escobar

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SR083 Salve regina 4 vv ; [2.p.] Ad te suspiramus 4 vv ; [3.p.] illos miserecordes 4 vv ; [4.p.] Et Jesum 4 vv ; [5.p.] O clemens 4 vv ; [6.p.] O dulcis virgo semper Maria 5 vv

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Motet

Scores

[1] Salve regina

Polyphonic ensemble SATB

TpI-C2; A-C4; T-C4; B-F4. Alternatim setting differs from the usual division of text consisting of four plainsong segments and four polyphonic versets by Spanish composers. In addition to plainsong for “nobis post hoc exilium ostende,” the concluding text of verset 6, Escobar divides verse 5 into three segments: the initial “eia…nostra” and concluding words “oculos…converte” in plainsong surround a polyphonic verset of two words (“illos misericordes”) comprising twelve sections. A Spanish chant version[1] in breves and semibreves permeates the imitative texture (e.g., “vita,” “in hac lacrimarum,” “illos” and “O clemens”). The final polyphonic verset “O dulcis virgo semper Maria” includes canon at the upper octave (Tp I and Tp II) based on appropriate chant at the distance of two breves. Alternation between pitches d and A in B with the concurrent chords d and a in harmonic rhythm of one chord change per measure consumes the final nineteen measures (219-37). Final d, G (3.p.), a (5.p.).

1. Breve Instrucción de canto llano ordenada por Luys de Villafranca, (Seville: Sebastián Trujillo, 1565). For transcription of Salve regina chant, see MRM 9, pp. 70-2.
[2] Ad te suspiramus

Polyphonic ensemble SATB

[3] Illos miserecordes

Polyphonic ensemble SATB

Bernadette Nelson notes an analogous procedure in an anonymous Salve regina (SR286) in CoimU 7. See “From Anchieta to Guerrero: The Salve Regina in Portuguese Sources and an Unknown Early Spanish Alternatim Setting.” Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia nova série v/1 (2019): 113-56.
[4] Et Jesum

Polyphonic ensemble SATB

[5] O clemens

Polyphonic ensemble

[6] O dulcis virgo semper Maria

Polyphonic ensemble SATB

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Pedro de Escobar - 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.

Bibliography

Modern editions

[Cristóbal de Morales and the Spanish motet in the first half of the sixteenth century]

Freis, W., 1992, Cristóbal de Morales and the Spanish motet in the first half of the sixteenth century : an analytical study of selected motets by Morales and competitive settings in SEV-BC 1 and TARAZ-C 2-3 /, Thèse de doctorat soutenue à , 1992.
(pp. 489-97)

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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