O admirabile commercium - Germinavit radix Jesse - Compère, Loyset

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"Lynn Halpern Ward (The "Motetti Missales" Repertory Reconsidered, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 39, No. 3 - Autumn 1986) has suggested that this piece may be part of a O admirabile commercium (motet cycle) (Loyset Compère): a Milanese practice of substituting the movements of a mass with motets. In its two sources, it is grouped with the other extant motets of this conjectural cycle: In Librone 1, it follows ''Ave virgo gloriosa (Loyset Compère)'' and ''Ave Regina caelorum (Loyset Compère)''; in the fire-damaged Librone 4, it is followed by ''Sanctus - O sapientia (Loyset Compère)'' and ''Suscipe verbum virgo Maria (Loyset Compère)''. Whether or not all the components of Ward's proposed cycle were ever performed as a unit, it seems likely that they were used in the groupings in which they appear in the Libroni. See ''O admirabile commercium - Tu lumen (Loyset Compère)'' for another setting by Compère of a similar text."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Motets ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → Latin

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 67474

Editor Adrian Wall

Posted 2022-01-09

License Personal

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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 Jesse, orta est stella ex Jacob, virgo peperit salvatorem, te laudamus deus noster.