Missa Rex Virginum (Anonymous (Carver Choirbook)) - Anonymous (Carver Choirbook)

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"This Missa Rex Virginum is stylistically closer to 15th century continental music than to British music, though it contains a troped Kyrie, which might suggest a British composer. Each movement quite rigidly follows the same overall plan, but fortunately the composer shows some ingenuity in the polyphony, despite a certain sameness throughout the different movements."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Masses

♯ Key C minor

⁄ Time Signature 3/2

♬ Voicing → ATTB

◆ Difficulty

Elementary

↕ Range F2 – B-4

¶ Language → Latin

Measures 133

Texture mixed texture

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 42

CPDL # 87803

Editor Bert Schreuder

Posted 2025-12-17

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

A (C2)

G3 – B-4

T1 (C4)

C3 – E-4

T2 (C4)

C3 – F4

B (F4)

F2 – A-3

¶Lyrics / Text

Rex virginum, amator Deus, Mariae decus, eleison, Kyrie eleison. Qui de stirpe regia claram producis Mariam, eleison, Kyrie eleison. Preces ejus suscipe, dignas pro mundo fusas, eleison, Kyrie eleison. Christe, Deus de patre, homo natus Maria matre, eleison, Christe eleison. Quem ventre beato Maria edidit mundo, eleison. Sume laudes nostras Mariae almae dicatas, eleison. O paraclite obumbrans corpus Mariae, eleison. Kyrie eleison. Qui dignum facis thalamum pectus Mariae, eleison. Qui super caelos spiritum levas Mariae, eleison. Fac nos post ipsam scandere tua virtute. Spiritus, alme eleison. Kyrie eleison.