Adoramus te Christe : Virgo mitis

Source: 
Folio(s): 
131v-132r
Motet rubric: 
Ad elevationem
Attributed to: 
-

Cycle details

Reference source: 
I-Mfd 3, ff. 125v-135r
Cycle rubric: 
"Galeazescha" (I-Mfd 3)
Identified as a cycle based on: 
presence of a cycle rubric and of "loco" rubrics; consensus in the "motetti missales" literature
Number of voices: 
5
Signature: 
-
Clefs: 
c1c4c4c4f4
Final: 
D
Devotional / liturgical association: 
BVM
Modern editions: 
AMMM 13, 75-112; CMM 15.2; MCE 3
Discography: 

Compère: Missa Galeazescha: Music for the Duke of Milan. Odhecaton, Paolo Da Col, Arcana-Outhere, 2017.

Further notes: 

See also the cognate shorter cycle C14a.

GASSER 2001, 304-305, considers the cycle to consist of seven motets, instead of eight: see the notes to M075 and M076.

The version of M074 in I-Mfd 3 is longer than the one in I-Mfd 1.

Content (motets): 
M071 M072 M073 M074 M075 M076 M077 M078

Motet details

Reference source: 
I-Mfd 3, ff. 131v-132r
Mensuration: 


 

Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 

1st phrase of verse 1 of the sequence Mane prima sabbati (Cantus ID ah54143) quoted in T2 (passage "ave virgo virginum"):

1--d--d--c--d--e--f--g---4

"Mane prima sabbati" (http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00035323/images/index.html?id=00035323&groesser=&fip=93.1.38.235&no=3&seite=504)

2nd phrase of verse 1 of the sequence Mane prima sabbati (Cantus ID ah54143) quoted in T1 (passage "ave lumen luminum"):

1--f--d--f--c--f--e--d--4

"surgens dei filius" (ibid.)

3rd phrase of verse 1 of the sequence Mane prima sabbati (Cantus ID ah54143) quoted in T2 (passage "ave stella praevia"):

1--f--g--h--g--f--e--d--4

"nostra spes et gloria" (ibid.)

1st phrase of verse 2a of the sequence Mane prima sabbati (Cantus ID ah54143) quoted in T1 (passage "castitatis lilium"):

1--h--g--f-e--d--g--g--a---4

"Victo rege sceleris" (ibid.)

2nd phrase of verse 2a of the sequence Mane prima sabbati (Cantus ID ah54143) quoted in T2 (passage "consolatrix omnium"):

1--h--g--fe--de--f--e--c---4

"rediit ab inferis" (ibid.)

3rd phrase of verse 2a of the sequence Mane prima sabbati (Cantus ID ah54143) quoted in T1 (passage "peccatorum venia"):

1--e--f--d--e--c--d--d----4

"cum summa victoria" (ibid.)

Number of voices: 
5
Length: 
53
Signature: 
-
Clefs: 
c1c4c4c4f4
Final: 
D/D
Music incipit: 
fegfgfff
fgddcdda
acbagaaf
acbagaa.
dcgdeddd
Modern editions: 
AMMM 13, 98-103; CMM 15.2; MCE 3.6
Further notes: 

Cycle C14a, whose three component motets (M071, M072 and M074) are concordant with motets in C14b, is attributed to "Loyset" in I-Mfd 1, index (see the record for fuller details). The present motet has been unanimously attributed to Compère as part of C14b: see for instance FINSCHER 1964, 92.

At the end of the bass part in the previous motet (M075) there is a "verte folium" rubric pointing to the present motet; moreover, M075 ends with breves, whereas all the other motets in the cycle end with longae: GASSER 2001, 310 therefore considers M075 and M076 as one motet for the Sanctus-ad elevationem-post elevationem complex.

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