O beata infantia (Loyset Piéton)

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• (Posted 2024-02-27)  CPDL #79297:     

Editor: Mick Swithinbank (submitted 2024-02-27).   Score information: A4, 16 pages, 116 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed down a minor third.

General Information

Title: O beata infantia
Composer: Loyset Piéton
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSAATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1534 in Motettorum, Book 3 (Pierre Attaingnant), no. 1
    2nd published: 1542 in Musicorum sex vocum, liber primus (Adrian Willaert), no. 18
    Manuscript 1545 in Cappella Sistina MS 24, no. 10
Description: Published by Attaingnant, Paris, 1534/5. Additional source: MS Capp. Sist. 24. Christmas motet. In the sources, so before the transposition applied in this edition, the work was scored with a key signature of two flats, with some ficta A flats also implied; after transposition, it looks less exotic.

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at O beata infantia (Anonymous).