M032 Ave mater gloriosa

Standardised text incipit: 
Ave mater gloriosa
Standardised composer: 
Weerbeke, Gaspar van
Attribution notes: 
"Gaspar" (I-Mfd 1, index; as part of C12a)
In cycle(s): 
C12a Ave mundi domina
Reference source: 
I-Mfd 1, ff. 127v-128r
Number of voices: 
4
Mensuration: 

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Length: 
44
Signature: 
b
Clefs: 
c1c3c4f4
Final: 
G
Music incipit: 
.ggfgbag
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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.

Modern editions: 
CMM 106.3; AMMM 11, 17-19
GCO Catalogue: 
[I.91]
Discography: 
Further notes: 

See also the Gaspar van Weerbeke Project.

Text details

Tags: 
Verse
To/about Mary
Standardised text incipit: 
Ave mater gloriosa
Liturgical/devotional association: 
Marian feasts (Conception; Annunciation; Assumption)
Full text: 

Ave mater gloriosa, 
Virga Iesse speciosa.

Ex regali stirpe nata,
Virgo semper illibata,
Stella maris appellata.

Gaude pia et decora,
Nos exaudi sine mora
Et pro nobis semper ora.

English translation: 

Hail, o glorious Mother, beautiful shoot of Jesse.

Born of royal stock, virgin ever untouched, you who are called star of the sea.

Rejoice, pious and splendid, hear us without delay and always pray for us.

Correspondences in standard ref works: 

Compare the rhymed antiphon for the Assumption of the BVM, RH 1, No. 1460, p. 85, Audi mater gloriosa (from Balinghem, Parnassus Marianus, 1624)

E.g. in the antiphoner Wrocław, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Ms. R 503 (http://cantusdatabase.org/node/457068, for the Octave of the Annunciation) as well as in several seventeenth-century devotional books (e.g., Diario sacro dove s'insegnano varie pratiche di divotione), the text is the following:
Audi mater gloriosa
Virga Iesse generosa
Digna laude speciosa.

Ex regali stirpe nata
Virgo sempre illibata
Stella maris appellata.

Audi pia et decora
Nos exaudi sine mora
Et pro nobis semper ora.

Related texts in polyphonic sources: 

F-MO H 196, f. 355r-v, Audi mater generosa/Imperatrix potentis gracie/[NEUMA] (anon., a 3); text of the Triplum as in Audi mater gloriosa (see above), except for:
gloriosa] generosa,
generosa] gloriosa
appellata] appellaris
pia] o pia

I-LUs MS 238 (“Mancini Codex or Lucca Codex”), f. 50r-v (anon., four?-voice setting); text as in Audi mater gloriosa (see above), except for:
Audi] Ave

Related texts in other sources: 

Antiphon at Terce in a rhythmic office for the Conception of the BVM, CH-SGs Cod. Sang. 545 (notated Antiphonary, France or Burgundy/Flanders, second half of the 15th century, see http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0545), f. 10v

T032 Ave mater gloriosa

Music incipit (MEI): 
File M032AveMaterGloriosa.xml

Sources with this motet

Displaying 1 - 1 of 1
Source Motet incipit Attribution Rubric Cycle / Text
I-Mfd 1
127v-128r 		Ave mater gloriosa
ID: M032 		Gaspar (index; as part of C12a)
Weerbeke, Gaspar van 		- C12a Ave mundi domina
T032 Ave mater gloriosa