Videte miraculum (Thomas Tallis)

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• (Posted 2025-02-01)  CPDL #83663:     

Editor: Simon Biazeck (submitted 2025-02-01).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 206 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original pitch and note-values retained, and plainsong added by the editor. The Tenor part missing from the Baldwin partbooks is here reconstructed editorially.

• (Posted 2022-01-25)  CPDL #67749:     

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2022-01-25).   Score information: A4, 11 pages, 219 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the surviving Tudor manuscript sources (as detailed in the commentary appended to the score) with plainsong incipit and verses added from the 1519 printed Sarum antiphonal. Original pitch and note values retained.

• (Posted 2019-12-19)  CPDL #56357:     

Editor: Simon MacHale (submitted 2019-12-19).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 235 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Original pitch and note values retained. Tenor voice has been reconstructed based on Salzinnes, CDN-Hsmu M2149.L4. Plainchant included at end of score. Musica ficta suggested.

• (Posted 2008-11-12)  CPDL #18286:       

Editor: Diana Thompson (submitted 2008-11-12).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 85 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed up a minor third for trebles and means.

• (Posted 2003-11-15)  CPDL #06034:        (Finale 2002)

Editor: Paul R. Marchesano (submitted 2003-11-15).   Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 220 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: See discussion page for alternative interpretations (not necessarily errors).

General Information

Title: Videte miraculum
Composer: Thomas Tallis

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicings: SSAATB or SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Responsory for Candlemas

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript ca. 1575 in The Baldwin Partbooks, no. 147
Description: A cantus firmus setting of a responsory for Vespers and Matins on the feast of the Purification.

Original text and translations

Latin text Respond at 1st Vespers, Purification of the BVM Videte miraculum matris Domini: concepit virgo virilis ignara consortii, stans onerata nobili onere Maria; et matrem se laetam cognoscit, quae se nescit uxorem. Haec speciosum forma prae filiis hominum castis concepit visceribus, et benedicta in aeternum Deum nobis protulit et hominem. Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.

English translation Translation by Mick Swithinbank Behold the miracle of the mother of the Lord: a virgin has conceived though she knows not a man, Mary, who stands laden with her noble burden; knowing not that she is a wife, she rejoices to be a mother. She has conceived in her chaste womb one who is beautiful beyond the sons of men, and blessed for ever, she has brought forth God and man for us. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.