Alleluia Per te Dei genitrix (Christopher Tye)

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• (Posted 2022-07-08)  CPDL #69914:       

Editor: Jason Smart (submitted 2022-07-08).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 119 kB   Copyright: CC BY NC ND

Edition notes: Edited from the Gyffard Partbooks. Transposed down a fifth to compensate for the high clefs. Original note values retained. Plainsong added from a fifteenth-century Sarum gradual.

• (Posted 2014-02-26)  CPDL #31377:        (Finale 2012)

Editor: Ross Jallo (submitted 2014-02-26).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 127 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Transposed down a fourth; note values halved. Editorial accidentals and slurs added.

General Information

Title: Alleluia Per te Dei genitrix
Composer: Christopher Tye

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Alleluia verse

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript 1572 (c. 1575) in British Library, Add. MS 17802-5 (Gyffard Partbooks), no. 12
Description: A polyphonic setting of the Alleluia for the Lady Mass 'Salve sancta parens' on Mondays, along with the plainsong verse.

Original text and translations

Latin text Alleluia. Per te Dei genitrix, nobis est vita perdita data: quae de caelo suscepisti prolem et mundo genuisti salvatorem.

English translation Alleluia. Lost life was given to us through you, mother of God: who did receive a child from heaven and bear a Savior for the world.