Congaudent angelorum II (Anonymous)

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• CPDL #24804:  MusicXML

Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-10-25).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 163 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MusicXML file is zipped. Original note values, no barlines.

General Information

Title: Congaudent angelorum II (not to be confused with Congaudent angelorum III (Anonymous) in the same codex)
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Notker Balbulus

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: SAA

Genre: Sacred, Sequence hymn for the Assumption of the BVM

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Trent 93, compiled 1450's

Description: A “sequentia” for the Assumption of the Virgin Mary transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr93. The notes' values, accidentals and colourings are as in the manuscript. The time signature is missing in all the voices, the “tempus perfectum” has been assumed from the context. The coloured notes are in "hemiolæ". In the 1st, 2nd and 6th sections the Contra melody is derived from the Superius following the “faulx bourdon” technique. The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th sections are polytextual (the Contra sings the Superius’ verse when in “faulx bourdon”, otherwise it sings the Tenor’s). The notes' values within the ligaturæ are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed notes are breves - the right downstemmed notes are longæ. The "musica ficta" suggestions are in the MIDI and MusicXML files.

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Congaudent angelorum chori gloriosæ virgini.
Quæ sine virili commixtione genuit.
Filium qui suo mundum cruore medicat.
Nam ipsa lætatur quod cæli iam conspicatur principem.
In terris cui quondam sugendas virgo mamillas præbuit.
Quam celebris angelis Maria Iesu mater creditur.
Qui filii illius debitos se cognoscunt famulos
Qua gloria in cælis ista virgo colitur quæ Domino cæli præbuit hospitium sui sanctissimi corporis.
Quam splendida polo stella maris rutilat quæ omnium lumen astrorum et hominum atque spirituum genuit.
Te cæli regina hæc plebecula piis concelebrat mentibus.
Te cantu melodo super æthera una cum angelis elevat.
Te libri virgo concinunt prophetarum chorus iubilat sacerdotum apostoli Christique martyres prædicant.
(Te plebis sexus sequitur utriusque vitam diligensvirginalem cælicolas in castimonia emulans.)
Ecclesia ergo cuncta te cordibus teque carminibus venerans.
(Tibi suam manifestat devotionem peccatu te supplici implorans Maria.)
Ut sibi auxilium circa Christum dominum esse digneris per ævum.