Stephane cum totum volitet tua fama per orbem - de Villiers, Pierre

"Published by Moderne, Lyon, 1542. There are seven voice parts throughout, but in the first section this includes two tenor parts whereas in the second it is the sopranos who are divided instead. Despite the words of the cantus firmus – ‘St Stephen, pray for us’ – the text sung by the other six voices makes it clear that this is an occasional motet in praise of an unidentified ‘Stephen’ associated with Augsburg (although the composer himself was associated primarily with Lyon, the place of publication). The author of the poem is anonymous, but was presumably not the composer. In Moderne’s edition, the punctuation is unreliable, which in itself was not uncommon in 16th-century partbooks, in this case however with the text of nearly every musical phrase concluding with a full stop, although this is contrary to the sentence structure. The cpdl edition, and particularly the punctuation used in it, is based on advice received by the editor. The composer seems not to have understood the text in detail, especially because he finishes the motet with repetitions of the final two words, which as a compositional procedure may be thought unexceptional, but for the fact that, with the application of corrected punctuation, those words apparently do not even belong to the same sentence."

⌛ Epoche → Renaissance

◈ Genre / Form Motetten

♯ Tonart G minor

⁄ Taktart 2/1

♬ Besetzung → SSAATTB

◆ Difficulty

Unterstufe

↕ Tonumfang F – g''

¶ Sprache → Latein

Takte 166

Textur mixed texture

Stimmen 7

Instrumente SSAATTB

Seiten 17

CPDL Nr. 83305

Bearbeiter Mick Swithinbank

Veröffentlicht 2025-01-07

Lizenz CPDL-Lizenz

♫Tonumfänge

Superius (G2)

d' – g''

Altus (C2)/ Sec. Superius (G2)

g – f''

Secundus Altus (C3)/ Altus

F – a'

Tenor (C4)/ Sec. Altus

d – a'

Secundus Tenor (C4)/ Tenor

d – f'

Secundus Bassus (F4)

F – B-3

Bassus (F4)

F – B-3

Schlagwörter

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Stephane, cum totum volitet tua fama per orbem, virtute, officio, religione, fide, cum tua sit cunctis pietas spes ampla beatis civibus Augustae gloria Vindelice, nescimus quales tibi decernamus honores, omnia sunt meritis inferiora tuis. At, cum nulla tuas industria dicere laudes, Stephane, te digna conditione queat, unus erit nobis, qui te super ethera tollet: Villierus studiis carminibusque suis. Hic te immortalem reddet mortalis et omni maiorem laudis posteritate. Vale!

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