M101 O admirabile commercium

Standardised text incipit: 
O admirabile commercium
Standardised composer: 
Compère, Loyset
Attribution notes: 
"Loyset" (I-Mfd 1)
In cycle(s): 
C29 O admirabile commercium (with Sanctus)
Reference source: 
I-Mfd [4], ff. 65v-66r
Number of voices: 
4
Mensuration: 


Length: 
85
Signature: 
b
Clefs: 
g2c2c3c4
Final: 
G
Music incipit: 
ggfgabab
ddegfgfd
gbabcddb
ggdgcgdg
Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 

The incipit of the antiphon Germinavit radix Jesse (Cantus ID 002941) quoted in C and T (opening of the passage "Germinavit radix Jesse.."):

1--d---ef---g---g----4

"Germinavit" (http://cantusindex.org/id/002941)

Modern editions: 
CMM 15.4 (edition after concordance in I-Mfd 1); AMMM 13, 151-156
GCO Catalogue: 
[I.111]
[IV.28]
Literature: 
FINSCHER 1964
Discography: 

Medieval Christmas - Noël médiévaux: Tenth- to Sixteenth-Century secular & liturgical music for Feasts days, Orlando consort, Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7418

Further notes: 

The concordance in I-Mfd 1 is not part of a cycle, but it does contain the ascription.

The transcription in AMMM 13 contains an error in the last chord; it gives a d instead of a g in the contratenor bassus.

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
To/about Jesus
About Christmas
Standardised text incipit: 
O admirabile commercium
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Octave of Christmas (RR)
Annunciation of the BVM (AR)
Little Office of the BVM (RR; during Christmastide)
Full text: 

O admirabile commercium, creator generis humani animatum corpus sumens de virgine nasci dignatus est et procedens homo sine semine largitus est nobis suam deitatem.

Germinavit radix Iesse, orta est stella ex Iacob, virgo peperit salvatorem, te laudamus deus noster.

 

 

English translation: 

O admirable exchange: the creator of the humankind, taking on a living body deemed worthy to be born of a virgin, and, coming forth without seed as a man, gave us his deity.

The root of Jesse germinated, a star arose from Jacob, a virgin gave birth to the saviour. We praise you, our God.

 

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

O admirabile ... deitatem = Antiphon at Lauds for the Octave of Christmas (also used in the Little Office of the BVM during Christmastide), Cantus ID 003985

Germinavit ... noster = Antiphon for the Octave of Christmas, Cantus ID 002941

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

I-Mfd 1, ff. 178v-179r, O admirabile commercium (L. Compère) (=M066, T066)

I-Mfd 3, ff. 168v-169r, O admirabile commercium (anon., a 4) (=M085, T085)

Related texts in other sources: 

Ambrosian rite: psallenda de annunciatione BMV, PM 6, 45

T101 O admirabile commercium

Music incipit (MEI): 
File M101OAdmirabileCommercium.xml

Sources with this motet

Displaying 1 - 2 of 2
Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd 1
151v-152r 		O admirabile commercium
ID: M101 		Loyset
Compère, Loyset 		-
T101 O admirabile commercium
I-Mfd [4]
065v-066r 		O admirabile commercium
ID: M101 		-
Compère, Loyset 		- C29 O admirabile commercium (with Sanctus)
T101 O admirabile commercium