Ave Jesu Christe alta stirps (Orlando di Lasso)

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• (Posted 2021-12-26)  CPDL #67232: 

• Original key (high chiavette):        

• Transposed down a fourth:      

Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2021-12-26).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 93 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from 1579 print. Original note-values.

General Information

Title: Ave Jesu Christe alta stirps
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1579 in Altera pars selectissimarum cantionum, no. 54
Description: In the 1579 edition this motet bears the inscription Ave Maria. In Magnum Opus Musicum the name Jesu Christe is replaced by Maria. Ave Maria may be the original version, because if we substitute Jesu Christe by Maria, we have a regular verse pattern of alternating 8 and 7 syllable lines in the first half of the poem.

Original text and translations

Latin text

Ave Jesu Christe alta stirps
filius castitatis,
Ave profunda viola
vallis humilitatis.
Ave lata rosa campi
divinae caritatis.

Ave abyssalis fons
omnis gratiae et misericordiae,
coeli ros, fructifer omnis
divinae suavitatis
et devotionis.
Amen.