Fratres mei (Jean Maillard)

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• (Posted 2025-02-06)  CPDL #83769:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2025-02-06).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 69 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third.

General Information

Title: Fratres mei
Composer: Jean Maillard
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSTTTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1553
    2nd published: 1555 in Moteta quatuor, quinque, et sex vocum liber primus (Le Roy & Ballard, Paris), no. 20
    Manuscript 1563 in Cappella Sistina MS 38, no. 37
Description: Published by Ballard & Le Roy, Paris, 1553. Contains a puzzle canon: 'Me oportet minui. Illum autem crescere.' There was no congruence mark in the source to indicate where the following voice should enter, nor was its pitch indicated (evidently required to be at the unison, however). In the canonic part, the note values had to be halved in the dux but doubled in the comes - and the same applied to the rests before these parts entered.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Fratres mei elongaverunt se a me
et noti mei quasi alieni recesserunt a me.
Dereliquerunt me proximi mei
et qui me noverunt quasi alieni recesserunt a me.