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"Vulpius has gone beyond the not unusual German practice of macaronic word-setting, in which phrases from both Latin and the vernacular are employed in alternating statements, to the far rarer inextricable interlarding of Latin and German text (in this case, verses from three chorales). His implied realisation is to treat all voices with equal weight, primus inter pares. But this seems unsatisfactory, rendering the text liturgically incomprehensible. In performance therefore one should decide either to offer the Latin to the fore, with a subliminal commentary in the demotic argot, or alternatively to present a German offering served on a warm bed of Latin verbiage."

⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre → Motets ♬ Voicing → SSSAATTBB|SAT.SSATBB ¶ Language → Latin

Parts 9

Instruments A cappella

Pages 11

CPDL # 53144

Editor Christopher Shaw

Posted 2019-02-03

License Personal

¶Lyrics / Text

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