Vidi speciosam - de Manchicourt, Pierre

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"This is one of seven settings of text from the Song of Songs (Canticum Canticorum) among Manchicourt's output of more than seventy motets, and his only surviving eight-part motet. It is the opening work of two printed collections — Attaingnant's 1545 reissue of his 1539 volume of Manchicourt motets, and the first volume of Berg & Neuber's ''Thesaurus musicus''. It also appears in three hand-copied manuscripts — two from Bavaria and one from the Kassel court of Philip of Hesse. Also appearing in the same volume of ''Thesaurus musicus'' is a ''contrafactum'' of this motet, ''Salva nos Christe Salvator'', attributed dubiously to Jacobus Clemens non Papa."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre → Responsories ♬ Voicing → SSAATTBB, SSTTTTBB ¶ Language → Latin

Parts 8

Instruments A cappella

Pages 16

CPDL # 56591

Editor Andrew Fysh

Posted 2020-01-09

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¶Lyrics / Text

Vidi speciósam sicut colúmbam, ascendéntem désuper rivos aquárum, cujus odor vestimentórum erat sicut flores rosárum et lília convállium. Quae est ista, qua procéssit quasi auróra consúrgens, pulchra ut luna, elécta ut sol, terríbilis ut castrórum ácies ordináta? Allelúia.