Regina caeli laetare (Pierre de Manchicourt)
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- Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2019-03-16). Score information: A4, 12 pages Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Complete edition (with secunda pars), transposed a minor third higher (for SSATBarB), otherwise identical to CPDL #53598 below.
- Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2019-03-16). Score information: A4, 12 pages Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Complete edition (with secunda pars), at original pitch (for SATTBB). Original note values retained. Bassus Secundus (having a higher ambitus) notated above Bassus Primus. Superius parts swapped in 2.p., since the canon swaps from a fourth below to a fourth above.
- Editor: Allen Garvin (submitted 2018-11-22). Score information: Letter, 3 pages, 80 kB Copyright: CC BY NC
- Edition notes: Prima pars only.
General Information
Title: Regina caeli laetare (2.p. Resurrexit, sicut dixit)
Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt
Number of voices: 6vv Voicings: SSATBB and SATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Votive antiphon for the Office of Compline during Eastertide (from Holy Saturday to the Saturday after Pentecost)
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1539 in Motettorum, Book 14 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 2
Description: Manchicourt employs an ingenious canon in the two Superius parts: the direction in the source "Sans souspirer ne chantez poinctz" (lit. "without breathing, and don’t sing dots") requires the comes (or ‘follower’) voice to omit minim rests and remove the dot from any dotted notes, the result being that the comes starts four semibreves later but ends the prima pars three-and-a-half semibreves earlier than the dux (and in the secunda pars, five and four semibreves respectively).
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Original text and translations
Original text and translations may be found at Regina caeli.