Salve regina [092]

Hernando Franco

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SR092 Vita dulcedo 4 vv ; [2.p.] Ad te suspiramus 4 vv ; [3.p.] Et Jesum 3 vv ; [4.p.] O dulcis virgo semper Maria 4 vv

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[1] Vita dulcedo

Polyphonic ensemble SATT

[Tp]-C1; [A]-C3; [T I]-C4; [T II]-C4. Alternatim setting. A Spanish version[1] of Salve regina supplies motivic material and serves as cantus firmus. Chant motives in overlapping points of imitation define the first two partes: 1.p., “vita dulcedo” (mm. 1-10); “spes nostra” (mm. 9-38); 2.p. “ad te” (mm. 39-47); “suspiramus” (mm. 47-54); “ in hac” (mm. 60-65); and “lacrimarum valle” (mm. 65-75). Franco makes use of a cantus firmus in the final two partes and includes chant motives in 3.p. and newly composed motivic material in 4.p. Except for “Et Jesum,” a contained imitative passage (mm. 76-85), the remainder of 3.p. comprises overlapping phrases based in chant (“benedictum,” “fructum ventris” and “nobis post hoc”) supported by a cantus firmus in T II with text “fructum ventris tui” (mm. 91-4) and “nobis post hoc exsilium ostende” (mm. 97-107); the word “ostende” initiates a final imitative passage (mm. 106-16). For 4.p. Franco assigns the cantus firmus (primarily in semibreves) to the Tp: “O dulcis” (mm. 117-23) in homorhythmic style and three statements of “virgo semper Maria (mm. 126-32 at pitch, mm. 134-41, upper fifth, and mm. 143-9, at pitch) supported by an imitative, contrapuntal fabric constructed from a newly-composed motive. A declamatory text setting prevails. Final d.

1. Franco most likely used the Psalterium, An[t]iphonarium Sanctorale (Mexico City: Pedro Ochate, 1584) or a closely related source; however, chant associated with “virgo semper Maria” reflects a Spanish chant version in Passionarium Toletanum (Alcalà de Henares: Arnoldo Guillén de Brocar, 1515). On the other hand, chant concurrent with textual phrases “gementes et flentes” and “O dulcis” may reflect a local practice. For transcription of Salve regina chant, see MRM 9, pp. 70-2.
[2] Ad te suspiramus

Polyphonic ensemble SATT

[3] Et Jesum

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[4] O dulcis virgo semper Maria

Polyphonic ensemble SATT

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Hernando Franco - 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

[Monuments of Renaissance music 9]

Snow, R. J., 1996, A New-world collection of polyphony for holy week and the salve service, Chicago & London http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39972996f.
(n° 37)

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Contributors

Harry Elzinga - Project manager ; Scientific editor

Ailin Arjmand - Collaborative work

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