Enríquez de Valderrábano
O Gloriosa Dei genitrix [Gombert]
Silva de sirenas (1547), fol. 5v
va009
| Source title | Tercera en primro traste se señala la claue de cesolfaut, y la cifra colorada que se a de ca[n]tar es tenor. Segundo grado. |
|---|---|
| Title in contents | O Gloriosa dei genitrix e el segundo grado. Gombert |
| Text incipit | O gloriosa. |
Music
Category intabulation
Genre motet
Fantasia type
Mode 1
Voices 4
Length (compases) 143
Vihuela
Tuning A
Courses 6
Final V/0
Highest I/5
Lowest VI/0
Difficulty medium
Tempo medium
Song Text
Language LA
Vocal notation texted cifras rojas
Commentary
An intabulation of the prima pars only of Gombert’s four-voice motet “O Gloriosa Dei genitrix” that conforms closely to the model. Valderrábanos rubric indicates: “Thrid [course] on the first fret is the C clef, and the red ciphers correspond to the tenor.” The text is an antiphon used on the feast of the Assumption and not frequently set polyphonically in the sixteenth centurt. Valderrábano’s version is close to the Gombert original, but the small variants between version make it impossible to link Valderrábano’s version directly to any of them; he evidently worked from another source (Gil2017, 257ff)
See: Schmidt-Görg, Gombert, 365; Lewis, Antonio Gardano, 291; Schöner (1999), 206-207
Literature
Recordings
Song Text
O gloriosa Dei genitrix, virgo semper Maria,
quae dominum omnium meruisti portare
et regem angelorum sola virgo lactare,
nostri quaesumus pia memorare
et pro nobis Christum deprecare
ut tuis fulti patrociniis ad celestia regna,
mereamur pervenire.
[Quae est ista quae ascendit,
sicut aurora consurgens,
pulchra ut luna electa ut sol,
terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata.]
Glorious mother of God, Mary, for ever a virgin,
who was found worthy to bear the lord of all
and, alone among all people, to suckle the king of the angels,
we beg you kindly to remember us
and, on our behalf, to pray Christ
so that, through your intercession
we may be admitted to the heavenly realms.
[Who is she who rises like the dawn,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
terrible as an army arrayed for battle?]
Intabulations
Modern edition(s)
Gombert, Nicholas. Opera Omnia. Ed Joseph Schmidt-Görg. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, 6. 11 vols. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1951-75.
Attaingnant, Pierre. Treize livres de motets parus chez Pierre Attaingnant en 1534 et 1535. Ed. A. Smijers and A. Tillman Merritt. Paris : Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1934-1964.
Printed source(s)
Gombert, Nicholas. Musica quatuor vocum, (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), lyris maioribus, ac tibijs imparibus accomodata… liber primus. Venezia: Girolamo Scotto, 1539.
Gombert, Nicholas. Musica quatuor vocum, (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), lyris maioribus, ac tibijs imparibus accomodata… liber primus. Venezia: Girolamo Scotto, 1539.
Gombert, Nicholas. Gomberti Excellentissimi, et inventione in hac arte facile Principis, Chori Caroli Quinti Imperatoris Magistri, Music quatuor vocum (vulgo motecta nuncupatur), Additis etiam nonnullis Excellentissimi Morales Motectis summo ipsius studio concinnatis, opus nunquam alias typis excussum, ac nuper accuratißime in lucem aeditum. Liber primus quatuor vocum. Venice: Girolamo Scotto, 1541.
Attaingnant, Pierre (ed.). Liber primus quinque et viginti musicales quatuor vocum motetos complectur. Paris: P. Attaingnant, 1534.
Manuscripts
D-Mbs Mus. MS 19 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus. MS 19 [olim: H.C. 27; MaiM 43].