Alleluia. Ave Maria - Virga Jesse floruit (William Byrd)

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• CPDL #4434:

Editor: David Fraser (submitted 2002-12-30).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 138 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Revised January 2008

• CPDL #3649:

Editor: Rupert Preston Bell (submitted 2002-05-30).   Score information: A4, 7 pages   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Alleluia - Ave Maria
Composer: William Byrd

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gradualia I (1605), no.20.

Description: Alleluia for the Feast of the Annunciation during Paschal Time (which in fact hardly ever occurs). Replaced at other times by the tract Gaude Maria. Byrd also apparently intended the piece as the Alleluia for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin during Paschal Time, but here the order of the verses Ave Maria and Virga Jesse is reversed – a reversal which cannot be done with the piece as written.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Ave Maria and Virga Jesse floruit.