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==General Information== | |||
'''Title:''' ''Officium stellae'', The Play of the Three Kings<br> | |||
{{Composer|Gregorian chant}} | |||
{{Voicing|1|unison}} (4 characters are specified in addition to the cantor)<br> | |||
{{Genre|Sacred|Liturgical dramas}} for {{Cat|Epiphany}} | |||
{{Language|Latin}} | |||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | |||
'''Published:''' Late 13c Ms. from Bigot library, BN 904 ''fonds latin, fol. 11 verso'' ([https://archive.org/details/DramesLiturgiquesDuMoyenAge Coussemacher] pp. 242-246) also known as the ''Graduale Rotomagense'' or Rouen Gradual. (See external links below.) | |||
'''Description:''' A related source from Rouen, a 14c Ordinal with expanded rubrics but no music, is translated in Adams: ''The Chief Pre-Elizabethean Dramas'' (1924, copyright renewed 1951 but [http://www.copyright.gov/records/ apparently not for 2nd term in 1978,] which would expire the end of 2019). It adds a processional antiphon "if needed" and directions for the lighting of an elaborate chandelier. | |||
'''External websites:''' | |||
*[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84324657.r=904 BNF digitalization of ''Graduale Rotomagense''] (see fol 28v) | |||
*[http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/~scores/006646974 Vol. 1 French translation and commentary] and [http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/11136005?n=75&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.25&printThumbnails=no Vol. 2 facsimile,] published in 1907. | |||
*[ Coussermacher, ''] | |||
==Text and translations== | |||
{{Top}}{{Text|Latin|''In die Epiphanie, Tercia cantata, TRES CLERICI de majori sede cappis et coronos ornati, ex tribus partibus cum suis famulis, tunicis et amictis indutis ante altare conveniant.'' | {{Top}}{{Text|Latin|''In die Epiphanie, Tercia cantata, TRES CLERICI de majori sede cappis et coronos ornati, ex tribus partibus cum suis famulis, tunicis et amictis indutis ante altare conveniant.'' | ||
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Eamus ergo et inquiramus eum, offerentes ei munera: aurum, thus et myrrham. | Eamus ergo et inquiramus eum, offerentes ei munera: aurum, thus et myrrham. | ||
''Hoc finito, eat processio ut in dominicis, CANTORE incipiente: | ''Hoc finito, eat processio ut in dominicis, CANTORE incipiente: |
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General Information
Title: Officium stellae, The Play of the Three Kings
Composer: Anonymous (Gregorian chant)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: unison
(4 characters are specified in addition to the cantor)
Genre: Sacred, Liturgical drama for Epiphany
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
Published: Late 13c Ms. from Bigot library, BN 904 fonds latin, fol. 11 verso (Coussemacher pp. 242-246) also known as the Graduale Rotomagense or Rouen Gradual. (See external links below.)
Description: A related source from Rouen, a 14c Ordinal with expanded rubrics but no music, is translated in Adams: The Chief Pre-Elizabethean Dramas (1924, copyright renewed 1951 but apparently not for 2nd term in 1978, which would expire the end of 2019). It adds a processional antiphon "if needed" and directions for the lighting of an elaborate chandelier.
External websites:
- BNF digitalization of Graduale Rotomagense (see fol 28v)
- Vol. 1 French translation and commentary and Vol. 2 facsimile, published in 1907.
- [ Coussermacher, ]
Text and translations
Latin text In die Epiphanie, Tercia cantata, TRES CLERICI de majori sede cappis et coronos ornati, ex tribus partibus cum suis famulis, tunicis et amictis indutis ante altare conveniant.
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English translation On the day of Epiphany, Tierce being sung, three clerks of the upper [row of choir] stalls, adorned with robes and crowns, from three directions with their servants in tunics and amices gather before the altar. |