Mater digna Dei / Ave sanctissima Maria (Ludwig Senfl)

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• CPDL #22582:     

Editor: John Hetland (submitted 2010-11-05).   Score information: Letter, 11 pages, 763 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Source: Das Chorwerk #62, ed. Walter Gerstenberg, published by Möseler Verlag Wolfenbüttel, 1957. Original note values have been halved. Translation, musica ficta and text underlay by John Hetland and The Renaissance Street Singers.

General Information

Title: Mater digna Dei / Ave sanctissima Maria
Composer: Ludwig Senfl

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SAATB

Genre: Sacred, Motet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published:

Description: Polytextual motet with cantus firmus on a different text.

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Original text and translations

Polyphony and cantus firmus are aligned approximately as in the music.

Latin text POLYPHONY: Mater digna Dei, Veniae via  luxque diei, Sis tutela rei Duxque  comesque mei. Sponsa Dei, Miserere mei: Lux alma Dei, Digna coli Regina poli, Me linquere noli. Nixa  Deum, Defende reum, Mihi dando  trophaeum. Me tibi  virgo pia Genitrix commendo  Maria. Jesu Christe, Fili Dei vivi, Miserere mei. Christus rex venit  in pace: Deus homo factus est. Deus propitius Esto mihi  peccatori, Et custos  animae meae, Nunc et semper  et ubique: Amen.

English translation Worthy mother of God, pathway of grace  and light of day, Be guardian of accused And my leader  and companion. Bride of God, Have mercy on me: Nourishing light of God, Worthy to be worshipped As queen of the heavens, Do not abandon me. Bearer  of God, Defend the accused, By giving me  the prize. Myself to thee,  holy virgin Mother I commend,  O Mary. Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, Have mercy on me. Christ the king comes  in peace: God became man. Gracious God, Be to me,  a sinner, Even the guardian  of my soul, Now and forever  and everywhere. Amen.

Latin text CANTUS FIRMUS: Ave sanctissima Maria, Mater Dei, regina coeli, Porta paradisi, Domina mundi. Tu es singularis Virgo pura. Tu concepisti Jesum sine peccato. Tu peperisti Creatorem Et Salvatorem mundi, In quo ego non dubito. Ora pro nobis Jesum Tuum dilectum filium, Et libera nos ab omnibus malis.

English translation Hail most holy Mary, God's mother, queen of heaven, gateway of paradise, ruler of the world. Thou art the only pure virgin. Thou hast conceived Jesus without sin. Thou hast borne the Creator and Savior of the world, in whom I do not doubt. Pray for us to Jesus thy beloved son, and free us from all evils.