Salve virgo virginum (Jacquet de Mantua)

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• (Posted 2010-04-13)  CPDL #21435:        (Finale 2008)

Editor: Joachim Kelecom (submitted 2010-04-13).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 162 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: original key, more suitable for ATTB.

• (Posted 2010-04-13)  CPDL #21436:        (Finale 2008)

Editor: Joachim Kelecom (submitted 2010-04-13).   Score information: A4, 9 pages, 160 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: transposed up a fourth, more suitable for SATB.

General Information

Title: Salve virgo virginum
Composer: Jacquet de Mantua

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: ATTB or SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1539 in Motecta quatuor vocum liber primus, Edition 1, no. 9
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Original text and translations

Latin text Salve virgo virginum, salve lumen luminum, vale, dulce lilium. Salve, mater pauperum. Mater Christi, tu peperisti regem omnium: gaude pura spes futura deprecantium; tu in hora mortis nostrae ora Christum Dominum, ne damnemur in aeternum. Speciosa pretiosa lux errantium, generosa, gratiosa sis in hac valle te laudantium consolatrix et gaudium, apud Patrem et Filium.

English translation Hail, virgin of virgins, Hail, light of lights, hail, sweet lily, hail, mother of the poor. Mother of Christ, you bore the king of all. Rejoice, pure hope for the future of those who pray to you. At the hour of our death, pray Christ the Lord that we may not be eternally damned. Beautiful and precious one, light to those who seek, generous and gracious, in this vale of sorrows may you be the consoler and joy of those who praise you, before the Father and the Son. Mother of God, remember me. Amen.   Translation by Mick Swithinbank