O beata infantia (Anonymous)
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- (Posted 2011-07-26) CPDL #23981: (MIDI) (XML)
- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-07-26). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 182 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MIDI and MusicXML files are zipped.
General Information
Title: O beata infantia
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Sacred, Antiphon
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Manuscript post 1445 in the Trent codices 89, no. 89-157
Manuscript post 1445 in the Trent codices 89, no. 89-158
Manuscript c.1497 in Cappella Sistina MS 15, no. 44
Description: A Christmas antiphon transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr89. The time signatures, notes' values, accidentals and colourings are as in the manuscript. The perfect notes and rests are dotted and a tie is used for a note whose value cannot be exactly represented. The coloured notes are in “proportio sesquialtera” (3 vs. 2). The notes' values within the "ligaturæ" are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed notes are breves - the right downstemmed note are longæ – the. The “musica ficta” suggestions are in the MIDI and MusicXML files.
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Original text and translations
Latin text
O beata infantia
per quam nostri generis
reparata est vita
O gratissimi delectabilesque vagitus
per quos æternos
ploratus evasimus
O felices panni
quibus peccatorum
sordes extersimus
O præsepe splendidum
in quo non solum jacuit
foenum animalium
sed cibus inventus est angelorum