Vassilissa ergo gaude (Guillaume Dufay)
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General Information
Title: Vassilissa ergo gaude
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: AATT
Genre: Secular, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1420
Description: Transcribed from the Trent manuscript tr87. Composed for the marriage of Cleofe Malatesta with Theodore II Palaiologos. The Tenor is taken from the Psalm 45:11 (Catholic 44:11)
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Original text and translations
Latin text
Vasilissa, ergo gaude,
Quia es digna omni laude,
Cleophe, clara gestis
A tuis de Malatestis,
In Italia principibus
Magnis et nobilibus,
Ex tuo viro clarior,
Quia cunctis est nobilior:
Romeorum est despotus,
Quem colit mundus totus;
In porphyro est genitus,
A deo missus celitus
Iuvenili etate
polles et formositate
<Ingenio> multum fecunda
Et utraque lingua facunda
Ac clarior es virtutibus
Pre aliis hominibus.
Tenor
Concupivit rex decorem tuum
Quoniam ipse est dominus tuus