M103 Suscipe verbum

Standardised text incipit: 
Suscipe verbum
Standardised composer: 
[Compère, Loyset]
Attribution notes: 
(see Further notes)
In cycle(s): 
C29 O admirabile commercium (with Sanctus)
Reference source: 
I-Mfd [4], ff. 67v-68r
Number of voices: 
4
Mensuration: 

Length: 
Signature: 
b
Clefs: 
g2c2c3c4
Final: 
G
Music incipit: 
-
-
..gggagd
..gggagd
Pre-existing melodies (Cantus prius facti): 
Modern editions: 
-
Literature: 
WARD 1986
, 499; 506
Discography: 
Further notes: 

This motet is transmitted as a fragment.

WARD 1986 considers this a concordance for Compère’s O genetrix gloriosa (WARD 1986, 499, 506; edited in CMM 15.4 after MotettiA, ff. 4v-6r, but contained incompletely in three Libroni: I-Mfd 1, ff. 149v-150r, 2nd part; I-Mfd 2, ff. 36v-37r, 2nd part; and I-Mfd 3, ff. 51v-52r, 1st part). This piece is however not a real concordance for O genitrix gloriosa, but rather a cognate setting of a partially concordant text, with substantial musical similarities.

 

Text details

Tags: 
Prose
Composite text
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Suscipe verbum
Liturgical/devotional association: 
3rd Sunday of Advent (RR)
Full text: 

Suscipe verbum, virgo Maria, quod tibi per angelum transmissum est a domino. 

Beata virgo nitida, 
efficieris gravida, 
paries quidem filium 
non habendo detrimentum 
virginitatis et eris 
benedicta semper
mater intacta.

English translation: 

Accept the word, virgin Mary, that was transmitted to you by God through the angel.

Blessed and fair virgin, you will be made pregnant, you will indeed give birth to a son, without having you chastity diminished and you will always be blessed untouched mother.

 

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Suscipe verbum ... domino ≈ Responsory for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, Cantus ID 007744
per angelum transmissum est a domino] a domino per angelum transmissum est

efficieris ... intacta ≈ versus for the same responsory, Cantus ID 007744b
Paries quidem filium et virginitatis non patieris detrimentum efficieris gravida et eris mater semper intacta.

 

 

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

I-Mfd 3, ff. 51v-52r, O genitrix gloriosa (L. Compère)

T103 Suscipe verbum

Music incipit (MEI): 
File M103SuscipeVerbum.xml

Sources with this motet

Displaying 1 - 1 of 1
Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd [4]
067v-068r 		Suscipe verbum
ID: M103 		-
[Compère, Loyset] 		- C29 O admirabile commercium (with Sanctus)
T103 Suscipe verbum