Josquin Desprez - Ave Maria…virgo serena (ca. 1484)
Pomerium
Alexander Blachly, Director
Live performance, October 15, 2006
Ave Maria,
Gratia plena,
Dominus tecum,
Virgo serena.
Ave cujus concepcio
Solemni plena gaudio,
Celestia terrestria
Nova replet leticia.
Ave cujus nativitas,
Nostra fuit solemnitas,
Ut lucifer lux oriens,
Verum solem preveniens.
Ave pia humilitas,
Sine viro fecunditas,
Cujus annunciatio,
Nostra fuit salvatio.
Ave vera virginitas,
Immaculata castitas,
Cujus purificatio
Nostra fuit purgatio.
Ave preclara omnibus
Angelicis virtutibus,
Cujus fuit assumptio,
Nostra glorificatio.
O mater Dei,
Memento mei. Amen.
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Hail Mary,
full of grace,
the Lord is with you,
serene virgin.
Hail to her whose conception,
full of solemn jubilation,
fills heaven and earth
with new joy.
Hail to her whose birth
was our solemn feast,
like the morning star, the rising light,
anticipating the true sun.
Hail, pious humility,
fruitful without a man,
whose annunciation
was our salvation.
Hail, true virginity,
immaculate chastity,
whose purification
purged our sins.
Hail, most excellent in all
angelic virtues,
whose assumption was
our glorification.
O Mother of God,
remember me. Amen.
—Transl. after Alejandro Planchart
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Munich 3154, fol. 147v-148
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Cappella Sistina 42
Petrucci, Motetti A
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