Motet Cycles Database

Cycle details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 171v-179r

Cycle rubric:

listed under "Motetti missales consequentes" (I-Mfd 1, index)

Identified as a cycle based on:

index of I-Mfd 1 (see Cycle rubric); presence of “loco” rubrics; consensus in the "motetti missales" literature

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

Christ, BVM, Incarnation

Christmas, Christmastide

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 45-73; CMM 15.2; MCE 1

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs. Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Content (motets):

M059 M060 M061 M062 M063 M064 M065 M066

C17 Hodie nobis de virgine

Cycle details

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 46v-55r

Cycle rubric:

"Officium de cruce" (MotettiB, index)

Number of voices:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Devotional / liturgical association:

Christ, Passion, Holy Cross

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4

Further notes:

The source Rhau 1538 includes two motets at the beginning of the cycle, not present in the other sources: Crux triumphans and Jesus nomen dignum.

Additional concordances in mss. that do not transmit motet cycles: M176 and M177 in CH-SGs MS 462 (“Heer Liederbuch”).

Content (motets):

M176 M177 M178 M179 M180 M181 M182 M183 M184

C44 In nomine Iesu / Officium de cruce

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T059 Hodie nobis de virgine

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 171v-172r

Mensuration:





Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

gfgagaba

dfffdfed

gabcdcbc

gdgfbfgf

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 45-47;CMM 15.2; MCE 1.1

Text reference:

M059 Hodie nobis de virgine

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 172v-173r

Mensuration:





Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

ggagfagf

dbdefddc

ggcbabcd

ggfgdefd

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 48-50; CMM 15.2; MCE 1.2

Text reference:

T060 Beata dei genitrix

M060 Beata dei genitrix

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T061 Hodie nobis Christus natus est

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 173v-174r

Mensuration:





Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

.ggaagfe

.ccdefbc

..ggaagg

ggaagfde

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 51-54; CMM 15.2; MCE 1.3

Text reference:

M061 Hodie nobis Christus natus est

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T062 Genuit puerpera regem

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 174v-175r

Mensuration:





Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

ggffgbcd

dbgabcbc

gbcdcbag

ged..gga

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 55-59; CMM 15.2; MCE 1.4

Text reference:

M062 Genuit puerpera regem

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T063 Sanctus : Verbum caro factum est

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 175v-176r

Mensuration:

 

Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

D / G

Music incipit:

.....gfg

....ddef

.gabcdcb

gabcdefg

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 60-62; CMM 15.2; MCE 1.5

Further notes:

Elevation motet (2a pars).

This motet is connected to the following (Memento salutis auctor) with a “Verte folium”.

Text reference:

M063 Sanctus : Verbum caro factum est

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T064 Memento salutis auctor

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 176v-177r

Mensuration:

 

Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

.......g

.gggbcdg

...bgbcd

gggbcded

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 63-65; CMM 15.2; MCE 1.6

Text reference:

M064 Memento salutis auctor

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T065 Quem vidistis pastores

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 177v-178r

Mensuration:





Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

ggfgabac

dcbadcde

ggdbcdca

gdgfbfgd

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 66-69; CMM 15.2; MCE 1.7

Text reference:

M065 Quem vidistis pastores

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T066 O admirabile commercium

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 178v-179r

Mensuration:





Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Discography:

Loyset Compère: Mass, Motets, Songs, Orlando Consort, Metronome 1002

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

ggfabcbg

gbcdfedc

ggaabbag

gfedfedb

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 70-73; CMM 15.2; MCE 1.8

Further notes:

M101 O admirabile commercium is not a concordance.

Text reference:

M066 O admirabile commercium

C14a Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar

Motet details

In cycle(s):

C14b Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar / ‹Missa› Galeazescha

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 143v-145r

Mensuration:



 

Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

Gasser sees a connection between the 4th phrase of Kyrie IX (Cum Jubilo) and the melody in T1 (text passage "florens ... gratus"):

1--h--k-l---l-k-l--h---g-h-i-j-h---g---g----f---g-i-j--g---h----4

"Kyrie eleison" (GASSER 2001, 319)

Last phrase of verse 4 of the sequence Veni sancte spiritus (Cantus ID ah54153) quoted in T1 (text passage "dans fluenta gratiae"):

1--e---g---h---g---k----j-h----h----4

"sana quod est saucium" (http://manuscrit.ville-laon.fr/_app/visualisation.php?cote=Ms263&vue=192)

Verse 5 of the sequence Veni sancte spiritus (Cantus ID ah54153) quoted in T1 and T2 (text passage "quae regina diceris...mater gratiae"):

1--l---l---g---h---k---j---h---h---i-j----hg----h----g--f---g---f---e---g---h---d-c---f---e-d--d----4

"Da virtutis meritum / da salutis exitum / da perhenne gaudium" (http://manuscrit.ville-laon.fr/_app/visualisation.php?cote=Ms263&vue=192). See MACEY 1996, 169-170.

(A contrafactum of this sequence exists (Veni virgo virginum) which uses the same text as the motet for this melodic phrase: "quae regina diceris / miserere miseris / virgo mater gratiae" http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00034686/images/index.html?id=00034686&groesser=&fip=ewqeayaeayaeneayasdaseneayaeayaw&no=&seite=577)

Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c4c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

dfedcfge

addef.ca

dfgagfed

...dfgag

dbbadecd

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 75-78; CMM 15.2; MCE 3.1

Further notes:

Seemingly presented as a two-part motet on two openings in I-Mfd 1 (with “verte cito” and “custodes”).

Text reference:

T071 Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar

M071 Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar

C14a Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar

Motet details

In cycle(s):

C14b Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar / ‹Missa› Galeazescha

Reference source:

I-Mfd 1, ff. 145v-147r

Mensuration:



 

Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

Verse 2 and verse 3 of the sequence Veni sancte spiritus (Cantus ID ah54153) quoted in T1 and T2 alternatively (passage "Virgo carens simili ... possimus in gloria"):

1--h--k--l--l--kj--k--l---kj--h--kj--g--fe--d--dc----g--f--gh--f--ed--c--d----4

"Consolator optime / dulcis hospes anime / dulce refrigerium." (http://manuscrit.ville-laon.fr/_app/visualisation.php?cote=Ms263&vue=192) See MACEY 1996, 170-171.

1--l--l--kj---k--lk--j--h---f--ed--c--de--f--g--f----g--h--ij--h--g--f--ed---d---4

"O lux beatissima / reple cordis intima / tuorum fidelium" (http://manuscrit.ville-laon.fr/_app/visualisation.php?cote=Ms263&vue=192)

Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c4c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

ddegfefg

abcdcdbc

dggagfed

...dggag

dgcedade

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 79-83; CMM 15.2; MCE 3.2

Further notes:

Seemingly presented as a two-part motet on two openings in I-Mfd 1 (with “verte cito” and “custodes”).

Text reference:

T072 Ave salus infirmorum

M072 Ave salus infirmorum

C14a Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar

Motet details

In cycle(s):

C14b Ave virgo gloriosa caeli iubar / ‹Missa› Galeazescha

Reference source:

I-Mfd 3, ff. 128v-130r

Mensuration:









Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

According to MACEY 1996, 171-73 and 208:
1st phrase of the hymn Ave maris stella (Cantus ID 008272) quoted in T1 (passage "gaude virgo salutata" ... end of folium):

1--d--h---g---hj---l---k--j--h--g----4

"Ave Maris stella" (http://cantus.simssa.ca/manuscript/133/?folio=135v)

2nd phrase of the hymn Ave maris stella (Cantus ID 008272) quoted in T2 (passage "gaude mater iocundata...puerperio"):

1--h--h--d-e--g--f-e--d----4

"dei mater alma" (http://cantus.simssa.ca/manuscript/133/?folio=135v)

3rd phrase of the hymn Ave maris stella (Cantus ID 008272) quoted in T1 (passage "gaude mundi domina...omnia"):

1--f--e--g--h--h--dd-c----4

"atque semper virgo" (http://cantus.simssa.ca/manuscript/133/?folio=135v)

4th phrase of the hymn Ave maris stella (Cantus ID 008272) quoted in T2 (passage "gaude caeli regina...tollens vitia"):

1--e--g--e--f--e-d-c---d---4

"felix caeli porta" (http://cantus.simssa.ca/manuscript/133/?folio=135v)

1st phrase of the hymn Ave maris stella (Cantus ID 008272) quoted in T1 (passage "o plena praeceteris...divina"):

1--d--h---g---hj---l---k--j--h--g----4

"Ave Maris stella" (http://cantus.simssa.ca/manuscript/133/?folio=135v)

Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c4c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

.aagfgaa

.aagfgab

..aagfga

....aabc

aagfgafd

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 89-93; CMM 15.2; MCE 3.4

Further notes:

The version of I-Mfd 1 is shorter than the one in I-Mfd 3 (the section starting with "Gaude virgo fruens delitiis" is missing).
The motet is presented on two openings in the sources, connected by "custodes" and by the rubric "verte cito": in I-Mfd 1 the second opening starts with "Gaude mundi domina", in I-Mfd 3 with "Gaude virgo fruens delitiis".

Text reference:

T074 Ave sponsa verbi summi

M074 Ave sponsa verbi summi

C29 O admirabile commercium (with Sanctus)

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

I-Mfd [4], ff. 65v-66r

Mensuration:





Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

The incipit of the antiphon Germinavit radix Jesse (Cantus ID 002941) quoted in C and T (opening of the passage "Germinavit radix Jesse.."):

1--d---ef---g---g----4

"Germinavit" (http://cantusindex.org/id/002941)

Number of voices:

Discography:

Medieval Christmas - Noël médiévaux: Tenth- to Sixteenth-Century secular & liturgical music for Feasts days, Orlando consort, Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7418

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

g2c2c3c4

Final:

Music incipit:

ggfgabab

ddegfgfd

gbabcddb

ggdgcgdg

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4 (edition after concordance in I-Mfd 1); AMMM 13, 151-156

Further notes:

The concordance in I-Mfd 1 is not part of a cycle, but it does contain the ascription.

The transcription in AMMM 13 contains an error in the last chord; it gives a d instead of a g in the contratenor bassus.

Text reference:

T101 O admirabile commercium

M101 O admirabile commercium

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 46v-47r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

.eefggag

dddgagfc

aabcdedc

dddcbadc

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Further notes:

Additional concordances in mss. that do not transmit motet cycles: CH-SGs MS 462 (“Heer Liederbuch”), No. 2, pp. 10-11.

Text reference:

T176 In nomine Iesu

M176 In nomine Iesu

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 47v-48r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

ffffeefg

ddddcgfe

aaaaggab

ddffcedc

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Further notes:

Additional concordances in mss. that do not transmit motet cycles: CH-SGs MS 462 (“Heer Liederbuch”), No. 2, pp. 10-11.

Text reference:

T177 Adoramus te Christe

M177 Adoramus te Christe

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 48v-49r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

eefggdec

cccbcgfe

aaaggcba

.eeedcfe

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Text reference:

T178 Patris sapientia

M178 Patris sapientia

Motet details

In cycle(s):

T179 Hora prima ductus est

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 49v-50r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

aabcdedc

.aabcded

feed.gag

.feedfec

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Text reference:

M179 Hora prima ductus est

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 50v-51r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

dddddddc

aabbbbaa

.dffffff

dfbbbbff

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Text reference:

T180 Crucifige clamitant

M180 Crucifige clamitant

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 51v-52r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

..eggagf

.accdedc

accdcbab

feedcba.

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Text reference:

T181 Hora sexta Iesus

M181 Hora sexta Iesus

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 52v-53r

Mensuration:



Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

.eggafff

.cbbaccc

egga.cca

cba.fff

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Text reference:

T182 Hora nona dominus

M182 Hora nona dominus

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 53v-54r

Mensuration:



Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

.ddefaaa

.aabc.cc

.dfga.aa

.ddcffdf

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Text reference:

T183 De cruce deponitur

M183 De cruce deponitur

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

MotettiB, No. 21, ff. 54v-55r

Mensuration:



Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti):

This motet possibly quotes pre-existing material, but it can not be linked to any Cantus prius factus with a corresponding text.

Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c2c4c4f4

Final:

Music incipit:

...eedgg

ddcffgab

..aagccd

.ddcfga

Modern editions:

CMM 15.4; DRAKE 1972; REICH 1990

Text reference:

T184 Hora completorii

M184 Hora completorii

C60 Sanctus + Ave virgo gloriosa Maria mater gratiae

Motet details

In cycle(s):

Reference source:

I-Mfd 2, ff. 36v-37r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

g2c3c3c4

Final:

Music incipit:

.feedggf

gggbbccd

.dccbgaa

gggggfed

Modern editions:

AMMM 6, 17-19; AMMM 13, 145-147; CMM 15.4, 30-31

Further notes:

In all the extant sources but the Libroni this motet is transmitted following the motet M292 O genitrix gloriosa. According to WARD 1986, 511-512, O genitrix gloriosa and Ave virgo gloriosa Maria mater gratiae are two separate compositions (and not a motet divided in two parts, as in the CMM edition), as indicated by the absence of custodes between them in all but one source (MotettiA). RIFKIN 2003, 263, points out that the oldest source in which these two motets are paired is I-Fr Ms. 2794, “a source written at or near the French royal court, very probably between 1486 and 1488”. SCHMIDT 2017, 26, adds that “The piece had thus reached the French court by the 1480s, possibly brought there by the composer himself; by this time it had emancipated itself from the Milanese tradition and had become a proper motet”.

O genitrix gloriosa was copied in I-Mfd 3, ff. 51v-52r.

Concordances (of the two paired motets) in mss. that do not transmit motet cycles: I-Fr Ms. 2794, ff. 9v-11r; I-Sc K.I.2, ff. 182v-184.

Text reference:

T282 Ave virgo gloriosa Maria mater gratiae

M282 Ave virgo gloriosa Maria mater gratiae

Motet details

Reference source:

I-Mfd 3, ff. 51v-52r

Mensuration:



Number of voices:

Length:

Signature:

Clefs:

c1c3c3c4

Final:

Music incipit:

gggddddc

.dddgffg

.gggdddd

..gggbffg

Modern editions:

AMMM 13, 148-150; CMM 15.4, 29-31

Further notes:

In all the extant sources but the Libroni and DK-Kk MS Ny Kongelige Samling 1848 2°, this motet is transmitted followed by the motet M282 Ave virgo gloriosa Maria mater gratiae. According to WARD 1986, 511-512 O genitrix gloriosa and Ave virgo gloriosa Maria mater gratiae are two separate compositions (and not a motet divided in two parts, as in the CMM edition), as indicated by the absence of custodes between them in all but one source (MotettiA). RIFKIN 2003, 263 points out that the oldest source in which these two motets are paired is I-Fr Ms. 2794, “a source written at or near the French royal court, very probably between 1486 and 1488”. SCHMIDT 2017, 26, adds that “The piece had thus reached the French court by the 1480s, possibly brought there by the composer himself; by this time it had emancipated itself from the Milanese tradition and had become a proper motet”.

Concordances (of the two paired motets) in mss. that do not transmit motet cycles: DK-Kk MS Ny Kongelige Samling 1848 2°, pp. 286-287 (ascribed to Richafort); I-Fr Ms. 2794, ff. 9v-11r; I-Sc K.I.2, ff. 182v-184.

M292 O genitrix gloriosa