Quem terra (Anonymous)
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CPDL #23630: Other, Unknown
- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-06-01). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 73 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The source (MusicXML) file is zipped
General Information
Title: Quem terra
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATT
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description: A Blessed Virgin Mary hymn by Venantius Fortunatus (530-609) transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr88. The notes' values, accidentals and colourings are as in the manuscript. The coloured notes are in "proportio sesquialtera" (3 vs. 2). 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. Only the text incipit.
External websites: http://www1.trentinocultura.net/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=22652&mode=2
Original text and translations
Latin text
Quem terra, pontus, æthera
colunt, adorant, prædicant,
trinam regentem machinam
claustrum Mariæ baiulat.
Cui Luna, Sol, et omnia
deserviunt per tempora,
perfusa cæli gratia,
gestant Puellæ viscera.
Beata Mater, munere,
cuius supernus Artifex,
mundum pugillo continens,
ventris sub arca clausus est.
Beata cæli nuntio,
fecunda Sancto Spiritu,
desideratus Gentibus,
cuius per alvum fusus est.
Iesu, Tibi sit gloria,
qui natus es de Virgine,
cum Patre, et almo Spiritu,
in sempiterna sæcula.
Amen.