Virgo prudentissima (Jhan Billon)
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- Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2022-08-26). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 74 kB Copyright: CPDL
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General Information
Title: Virgo prudentissima
Composer: Jhan Billon
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Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: STTTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1539 in Quartus liber mottetorum ad quinque et sex voces (Jacques Moderne, Lyon), no. 3
2nd published: 1539 in Fior de mottetti secundus liber cum quinque vocibus (Antonio Gardano, Venice), no. 21
Description: Sources: Quartus liber mottetorum ad 5 et 6 voces, Jacques Moderne, Lyon, 1539 and Secundus liber cum 5 vocibus, Gardane, Venice, 1539. An agreeably sombre setting of this well-known text. At the end, the composer indulges in the regularly encountered practice of setting the words 'ut sol' ('like the sun') mostly to the notes C and G.
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Virgo prudentissima.