Flos virginum (Johannes Martini)
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- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-06-07). Score information: A4, 1 page, 64 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Flos virginum
Composer: Johannes Martini
Lyricist: Francesco Petrarca
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SAAT
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
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Description: This motet is a contrafactum on a fragment of the Gloria of the Missa "Coda di pavon", transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr91. The time signatures, notes' values, accidentals and colourings are as in the manuscript. The coloured sections are in "proportio sesquialtera" (3 vs. 2). The values within the "ligaturæ" are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed notes are breves.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Flos virginum,
celi ac terræ decus,
sacra et ineffabilis Virgo Maria,
Salvatoris nostri mater,
a qua quicquid postulaveris
impetraturam esse confidimus