Inviolata integra et casta
General information
Sequence hymn, mainly associated with Candlemas but occasionally used at Assumption & other feasts.
Settings by composers
- Anonymous
- Gregorian chant
- from Attaingnant's Fourth Book of motets, 1534 TTBB, identical to Jean Courtois
- Jean Courtois TTBB ("O benigna" x3 instead of "… O Regina, O Maria")
- Nicolas Gombert SATTB
- Charles Gounod 4 unmixed vv, TTBB
- Josquin des Prez SATTB
- Adrian Willaert SAATTTB
Text and translations
Latin text Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria: |
English translation Inviolate, whole and chaste are you, Mary: |