O Virgo prudentissima (Josquin des Prez)

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• (Posted 2016-03-08)  CPDL #38817:       

Editor: Francis Jiashen Tian (submitted 2016-03-08).   Score information: A4, 15 pages, 133.85 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: O Virgo prudentissima
Composer: Josquin des Prez
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SATTTB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1520 in Liber selectarum cantionum (Grimm & Wirsung), no. 4, p. 38
    2nd published: 1538 in Novum et insigne opus musicum (Ott and Formschneider), Volume 2, no. 2
    Manuscript 1545 in Cappella Sistina MS 24, no. 4
    3rd published: 1558 in Novum et insigne opus musicum (Berg and Neuber), Volume 1, no. 7
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Original text and translations

Latin text

O Virgo prudentissima,
quam coelo missus Gabriel
superni regis nunctius
plena testatur gratia.

Te sponsam factor omnium,
te matrem Dei Filius,
te vocat habitaculum
suum beatus Spiritus.

Tu sella maris diceris;
semper nos inter scopulos
inter obscuros turbines
portum salutis indicas.

Per te de tetro carcere
antique patres exeunt;
per te nobis astrifere
panduntur aulae lumina.

Audi virgo puerpera,
tu sola mater integra,
audi praecantes quaesumus
tuos Maria famulos.

Beata mater et innupta virgo,
repelle mentis tenebras,
disrumpe cordis glaciem,
gloriosa regina mundi,
nos sub tuum presidium confugimus,
intercede pro nobis ad Dominum.
Alleluia.

Cantus firmus:
Beata mater et innupta virgo,
gloriosa regina mundi,
intercede pro nobis ad Dominum.