Vidi speciosam (Pierre de Manchicourt)
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- Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2020-01-09). Score information: A4, 16 pages, 431 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: Transposed one tone higher (for SSAATTBB), otherwise identical to CPDL #56590 below.
- Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2020-01-09). Score information: A4, 16 pages, 426 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: At original pitch (for SSAATTBB or SSTTTTBB). Original note values retained. Transcribed and edited from the 1564 publication and the Kassel manuscript described below.
General Information
Title: Vidi speciosam 2.p. Quae est ista quae processit
Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt
Source of text: from Song of Songs
Number of voices: 8vv Voicings: SSAATTBB or SSTTTTBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet, Responsory at Matins for the Feast of the Assumption
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1545 in Attaingnant, Petri Manchicurtii Bethunii … modulorum musicalium primus tomus (RISM M271), no. 1
2nd published: 1564 in Berg & Neuber, Thesaurus musicus, Volume 1, no. 1
Description: This is one of seven settings of text from the Song of Songs (Canticum Canticorum) among Manchicourt's output of more than seventy motets, and his only surviving eight-part motet. It is the opening work of two printed collections — Attaingnant's 1545 reissue of his 1539 volume of Manchicourt motets, and the first volume of Berg & Neuber's Thesaurus musicus. It also appears in three hand-copied manuscripts — two from Bavaria and one from the Kassel court of Philip of Hesse. Also appearing in the same volume of Thesaurus musicus is a contrafactum of this motet, Salva nos Christe Salvator, attributed dubiously to Jacobus Clemens non Papa.
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Original text and translations
Latin text Vidi speciósam sicut colúmbam, |
English translation I beheld her, beautiful as a dove, |
Original text and translations may be found at Vidi speciosam.