| Source title | La e[n]tonacio[n] es segu[n]da e[n] tercero traste. Segu[n]do grado. |
|---|---|
| Title in contents | Motete O quam suavis en el segundo grado |
| Text incipit | O quam suavis est |
Music
Category intabulation
Genre motet
Fantasia type
Mode 6
Voices 5
Length (compases) 141
Vihuela
Tuning G
Courses 6
Final IV/0
Highest I/5
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty medium
Tempo not specified
Song Text
Language LA
Vocal notation texted staff notation
Commentary
Valderrábano’s intablulation of an unattributed five-voiced motet of unknown provenancev in imitative style. The superius is notated in mensural notation on a separate staff. It has been classified here as mode 6 because of the prominence given to A as a cadential tone and the range of the tenor and soprano parts. The text is biblical from the book of Wisdom 12:1 and 16:21, sung as the Antiphon to the Magnificat at Vespers on Corpus Christi
Recordings
Song Text
O quam suavis est, Domine, spiritus tuus,
qui ut dulcedinem tuam in filios demonstrare
pane suavissimo de caelo praestito,
esurientes reples bonis,
fastidiosos divites dimittens inanes.
O how sweet is thy spirit, Lord,
thou who, in order to demonstrate thy sweetness to thy children,
send down from heaven the sweetest bread unsurpassed,
filling the hungry with good things,
sending away empty the disdainful rich!