Gaude flore virginali (Richard Davy)
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- (Posted 2022-09-02) CPDL #70662: Edition withdrawn per editor's request
- Editor: Dr Russell Blacker (submitted 2022-09-02). Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 613 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: You have permission to copy, print, and perform this work so long as the attribution (Russell Blacker) and the copyright permission (Stainer & Bell) is retained. You do not have permission to alter the reconstructed parts (in red).
General Information
Title: Gaude Flore VIrginali
Composer: Richard Davy
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6/7vv Voicing: TrMMTTCtB
Genre: Sacred, Votive antiphon
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Manuscript c. 1500 – 1520 in Eton Choirbook (fragmentary), no. 4
First published: 2022 – Russell Blacker reconstruction
Description: This piece survives incomplete in the Eton Choirbook, lacking both the entire opening section and the left choirbook page of the section beginning with "Te benignam et felicem…" containing the Treble, Tenor 1, and Countertenor voices. CPDL #70662 has reconstructed these in red, employing two cantus firmi: - Virgo flagellatur in Tenor2 and O Lux beata Trinitas in the Countertenor part.
Original text and translations
Latin text
[Gaude flore virginali…]
…Te benignam et felicem
Jesu dignam genitricem
Veneratur in gloria.
Gaude nexu voluntatis
Et amplexu caritatis
Juncta sic altissimo,
Ut ad votum consequaris
Quicquid virgo postularis
A Jesu dulcissimo.
Gaude mater miserorum
Quia pater saeculorum
Dabit te colentibus
Congruentem hic mercedem
Et felicem poli sedem
Regnis in celestibus.
Gaude virgo mater Christi
Quia sola meruisti,
O virgo piissima,
Esse tantae dignitatis
Quod sis sanctae trinitatis
Sessioni proxima.
Gaude virgo mater pura
Certa manens et secura
Quod haec septem gaudia
Non cessabunt, nec decrescent,
Sed durabunt, et florescent
Per aeterna secula. Amen.