Alleluia. Ave Maria - Virga Jesse floruit (William Byrd)

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Editor: Rupert Preston Bell (added 2002-05-30).   Score information: A4, 7 pages   Copyright: Personal
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Editor: David Fraser (added 2002-12-30).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 138 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Revised January 2008

General Information

Title: Alleluia - Ave Maria
Composer: William Byrd
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SATTB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Gradualia I (1605), no.20.

Description: Alleluia for the Feast of the Annunciation during Paschal Time (which in fact hardly ever occurs). Replaced at other times by the tract Gaude Maria. Byrd also apparently intended the piece as the Alleluia for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin during Paschal Time, but here the order of the verses Ave Maria and Virga Jesse is reversed – a reversal which cannot be done with the piece as written.

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Original text and translations

Please see text pages for Ave Maria and Virga Jesse floruit.