Vassilissa ergo gaude (Guillaume Dufay)

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Editor: Nancho Alvarez (submitted 2011-05-25).   Score information: A4, 4 pages   Copyright: Personal
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Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-04-18).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 177 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Vassilissa ergo gaude
Composer: Guillaume Dufay

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: AATT

Genre: SecularMotet

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.png 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

English.png English translation requested