Virgo Dei mater - Jhan, Maistre

"Source: Manuscript Capp. Sist. 19. (The manuscript is partially illegible.) A pleasantly sombre, fairly brief, Marian motet. Part of the cantus firmus text makes it appropriate for the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary."

⌛ Period → Renaissance ◈ Genre / Form → Motets

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 2/1

♬ Voicing → ATTBB

◆ Difficulty

Beginner

↕ Range E2 – C5

¶ Language → Latin

Measures 129

Texture mixed texture

Parts 7

Instruments A cappella

Pages 8

CPDL # 70725

Editor Mick Swithinbank

Posted 2022-09-08

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

C4 – C5

(C2)

E3 – B4

(C4)

D3 – D4

(F3)

D3 – C4

(F4)

B2 – E4

E2 – A3

¶Lyrics / Text

Virgo Dei mater, virgo sanctissima, salve, quae sola et merito nomen utrumque tenens. Tu sponsa es nati, vasti tu gloria mundi, unica spes miseris, refugiumque reis, affer opem mundo, iamque tendite ad ima, a lapsu et nostros retrahe virgo pedes. Pulchra es et decora, filia Jerusualem; terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata. Ad caelum gressus vitae tu dirige nostrae ut purus tandem spiritus astra colat nosque tibi et nato proprias decernimus aras sacraque perpetuis reddere temporibus.

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