O Virgo prudentissima (Robert Wylkynson)
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- Editor: Dr Russell Blacker (submitted 2022-09-02). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 445 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: You have permission to copy, print, and perform this work so long as the attribution (Russell Blacker) and the copyright permission (Stainer & Bell) is retained. You do not have permission to alter the reconstructed parts (in red).
General Information
Title: O Virgo Prudentissima
Composer: Robert Wylkynson
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Number of voices: 6vv Voicing: TrMCtTTB
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 2022
Description: This piece from the Eton Choirbook is incomplete lacking, as it does, the Mean, first Tenor, and Bass parts which are here reconstructed (here in red). The second half of the piece is also missing. Wylkynson probably employed two cantus firmi as the one that survives (identified by Catherine Hocking as 'Angelus Autem') has been transposed up a 4th. After much searching I found that the chant 'Nesciens Mater' (here in Tenor 1) fits the harmonic constraints - and the theme of the work. The text is unusual being a poem by the Italian humanist Poliziano; it is possible that it was commissioned by King Henry VII for a visit - to Windsor in 1497 - by two Italian ambassadors - Raimondo da Soncino and Andrea Trevisano. This is a revised and finalised version.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at O Virgo prudentissima (Josquin des Prez).