Sanctus - O sapientia - 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 some of the known ''motetti musicali'' cycles, the ''Sanctus'' is the one regular mass movement which remains, and it is followed (as here) by a simple homophonic piece, to be performed at the Elevation. In its two sources, this piece is grouped with other motets from this conjectural cycle: In Librone 2, it includes ''O sapientia'' and there is a clear indication that it should be followed by the next piece, ''Ave virgo gloriosa (Loyset Compère)'', which provides the final resolution; in the fire-damaged Librone 4, it omits ''O sapientia'', and appears between ''O admirabile commercium - Germinavit radix Jesse (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. In the source, ''O sapientia'' is notated in breves, all marked with a fermata."

⌛ Period → Renaissance

◈ Genre / Form Mass fragments

♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → Latin

Parts 4

Instruments A cappella

Pages 4

CPDL # 67475

Editor Adrian Wall

Posted 2022-01-09

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus dominus deus sabaoth. Pleni sunt caeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis. O sapientia, quae ex ore altissimi prodisti, veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae.

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