Il ciclo di mottetti 'In honorem Sancti Spiritus' di Gaspar van Weerbeke: Un'ipotesi sulla sua origine

TitleIl ciclo di mottetti 'In honorem Sancti Spiritus' di Gaspar van Weerbeke: Un'ipotesi sulla sua origine
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsPavanello, Agnese
JournalMusica disciplina
Volume54
Pagination147-180
Short TitleIl ciclo di mottetti "In honorem sancti spiritus" di Gaspar van Weerbeke
CiteKey: 
PAVANELLO 2009
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Cycle details

Reference source: 
I-Mfd [4], ff. 120v-125r
Cycle rubric: 
-
Identified as a cycle based on: 
(see Further notes)
Number of voices: 
4
Signature: 
-
Clefs: 
c1c3c4f4
Final: 
G
Devotional / liturgical association: 
Holy Spirit
Pentecost
Modern editions: 
CMM 106.3
Further notes: 

WARD 1986, 507-508 proposes the reconstruction of a “virtual” seven-motet cycle combining motets from the present cycle and C37b.

LINDMAYR-BRANDL 1992 and PAVANELLO 2009 have proposed to discard M140 (whose attribution to Gaspar is doubtful) from the cycle on textual and stylistic grounds.

See also information on this cycle as part of the Gaspar van Weerbeke Project.

Content (motets): 
M136 M137 M138 M139 M140

C37a Spiritus domini replevit orbem (I-Mfd [4])

Weerbeke, Gaspar van

Cycle details

Reference source: 
MotettiLQ, ff. 29v-30v (S) 92v-94r (A) 60r-61v (T) 124v-126r (B)
Cycle rubric: 
"in honorem sancti spiritus" (MotettiLQ, index)
Number of voices: 
4
Signature: 
-
Clefs: 
c1c3c4f4
Final: 
G
Devotional / liturgical association: 
Holy Spirit
Pentecost
Modern editions: 
CMM 106.3
Further notes: 

Attribution reproduced in CMM 106.3, Plate 5; see also the historical register.

WARD 1986, 507-508 proposes the reconstruction of a “virtual” seven-motet cycle combining motets from the present cycle and C37a.

See also information on this cycle as part of the Gaspar van Weerbeke Project.

Content (motets): 
M136 M137 M138 M139 M238 M239

C37b Spiritus domini replevit orbem (MotettiLQ)

Weerbeke, Gaspar van

Motet details

In cycle(s): 
C37a Spiritus domini replevit orbem (I-Mfd [4])
Reference source: 
I-Mfd [4], ff. 124v-125r
Mensuration: 

Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 

The first verse of the hymn Veni creator spiritus (Cantus ID 008407) quoted in T and partially in C (passage "Veni creator" until end):

1---g--h--gf---g--h--k--l--k----k--g---h--k--lk--l--m--l---

"Veni creator spiritus / mentes tuorum visita /

1---k--lm---kj--hg---jkl---g--h--k---jk--h--gf---h--hkh---g---fg---g----

imple superna gratia / quae tu creasti pectora" (http://cantusindex.org/id/008407)

Number of voices: 
4
Length: 
60
Signature: 
-
Clefs: 
c1c3c4f4
Final: 
G
Music incipit: 
cacbagag
gegfedcd
cabbccaa
cfedc.fe
Modern editions: 
CMM 106.3
Further notes: 

This motet is transmitted as a fragment.

Not a concordance for M096.

This motet has been proposed as part of C37a by WARD 1986, and as such attributed to Weerbeke (see the record of C37a for further information). LINDMAYR-BRANDL 1992 and PAVANELLO 2009 have instead discarded it from the cycle on textual and stylistic grounds.

The Gaspar van Weerbeke Project lists it among the doubtful works.

Text reference: 
T140 Sancti spiritus adsit

M140 Sancti spiritus adsit

[Weerbeke, Gaspar van (?)]

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about the Holy Spirit
Standardised text incipit: 
Spiritus domini replevit
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Pentecost
Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit
Full text: 

Spiritus domini replevit orbem terrarum alleluia et hoc quod continet omnia, scientiam habet vocis alleluia.

English translation: 

The spirit of the Lord filled the world, alleluia, and that which contains all things has knowledge of the voice alleluia.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Introit for Pentecost Sunday, Cantus ID g01090. This text is also used in other chants of both mass and offices on or around the feast of Pentecost.

Related texts in other sources: 

Introit for Pentecost with psalm "omnium est enim artifex" and introit for the votive mass De Spiritu Sancto with psalm Exurgat deus, in:  Zarotto 1474, ff. 98v and 165v.

T136 Spiritus domini replevit

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about the Holy Spirit
Standardised text incipit: 
Veni sancte spiritus
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Pentecost
Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit
Full text: 

Veni sancte spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. Qui per diversitatem linguarum cunctarum gentes in unitate fidei congregasti alleluia alleluia.

English translation: 

Come Holy spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful people and ignite a fire of love for you in them: you who gathered the people in the unity of faith across the diversity of all the tongues. Alleluia, alleluia.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Antiphon for Pentecost Sunday, Cantus ID 005327
unitate] unitatem

Related texts in other sources: 

2nd verse to the gradual for the votive mass of the Holy Spirit, in: Zarotto 1474.

T137 Veni sancte spiritus

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about the Holy Spirit
Standardised text incipit: 
Beata gens
Liturgical/devotional association: 
17th Sunday after Pentecost
Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit
Full text: 

Beata gens cuius est dominus deus eorum populus quem elegit in hereditatem sibi. Verbo domini caeli firmati sunt et spiritu oris eius omnis virtus eorum.

 

English translation: 

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and by the breath of his mouth their whole virtue.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Gradual for the 17th Sunday after Pentecost, Cantus ID g01217

Related texts in other sources: 

Gradual of the votive mass De Spiritu Sancto, in Zarotto 1474, f. 166r

T138 Beata gens

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about the Holy Spirit
Standardised text incipit: 
Confirma hoc deus
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Pentecost
Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit
Full text: 

Confirma hoc, deus, quod operatus es in nobis. A templo sancto tuo quod est in Ierusalem tibi offerent reges munera alleluia.

English translation: 

Strengthen that, God, which you have done in us. From your sacred temple which is in Jerusalem kings will offer gifts to you. Alleluia.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Text used in various chants of mass and offices on and around the feast of Pentecost; for textual variants see Cantus ID g01094.

Related texts in other sources: 

Offertory of the votive mass De Spiritu Sancto, in Zarotto 1474, f. 166r.

T139 Confirma hoc deus

Text details

Tags: 
Verse
Composite text
To/about the Holy Spirit
Standardised text incipit: 
Sancti spiritus adsit
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Pentecost
Full text: 

Sancti spiritus adsit nobis gratia
quae corda nostra sibi faciat habitacula.
Spiritus alme illustrator cordium
horridas nostrae mentis purga tenebras.

Veni creator spiritus,
mentes tuorum visita.
imple superna gratia
quae tu creasti pectora.

 

English translation: 

The holy spirit's favour be among us,
That he makes himself our hearts his home.
Nourishing spirit, illumination of the hearts,
Purge the horrid darkness of our mind.

Come creator spirit visit your children's thoughts, fill with celestial grace the hearts that you created.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Sancti...habitacula = Sequence for Pentecost, ascribed to Notker, AH 53, No. 70, pp. 119-122, st. 1-2
adsit] assit
habitacula] habitaculum

Spiritus...tenebras = Sequence for Pentecost, ascribed to Notker, AH 53, No. 70, pp. 119-122, st. 4-5
cordium] hominum

Veni creator ... pectora = Hymn for Pentecost, ascr. to Pope Innocens III, AH 54, No. 153, pp. 234-239, st. 1

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

I-Mfd [4], ff. 60v-61r, Sancti Spiritus adsit (anon. a 4) (= M096, T096)

I-TRbc MS 1378 [91] (“Trent 91”), ff. 174v-177r Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia (anon.)

D-Mbs 3154, ff. 359v-362r Sancti Spiritus assit nobis gratia (anon. a 5)

Related texts in other sources: 

Sequence for Pentecost, in Zarotto 1474, ff. 95v-96.

T140 Sancti spiritus adsit