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Wednesday 8 February 2023

Anonymous: Beata es virgo Maria / Salve regina / Ave Maria (SSATTB)

Beata es virgo Maria / Salve regina / Ave Maria is an amazing six-voice motet copied in a manuscript choirbook (Ms. 8) in the Tarazona Cathedral (Spain). It has three different texts and two cantus firmus ostinato: while four voices sing the text Beata es virgo Maria Dei genitrix, the Supranus 1 sings the first notes of the Salve regina (Salve regina misericordiae) and the Tenor 2 the beginning of the Ave Maria plainchant (Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum).

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Tuesday 26 January 2021

Anonymous: Missa Absalon fili mi (SATB) (ca. 1527)

Absalon fili mi by Josquin (or Pierre de la Rue) is one of the most extraordinary works of the Renaissance. This anonymous Mass is the only extant work based on that motet. Although it is a short Mass (it lacks the Hosanna, Benedictus or a second Agnus Dei) it reflects the "modulation" from the original motet (what Lowinsky called "Secret Chromatic Art") on three occasions, (the Kyrie, Gloria and Credo).

This previously unpublished Mass is an extraordinary work, and we want to thank Alessandra Chiarelli and Armando Tomesani from the Archivio Musicale di S. Petronio for their help with the access to the original source.

MIDI (Kyrie)


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