Missa Ista est speciosa (Pierre de la Rue)

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Kyrie

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Gloria

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Credo

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Agnus Dei

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General Information

Title: Kyrie - Missa Ista est speciosa
Composer: Pierre de la Rue
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: ATTBB
Genre: Sacred, Mass

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Manuscript c.1513 in D-Ju MS 4, no. 23-27
Manuscript 1515 in D-Ju MS 2, no. 6–10
Description: “Missa de sanctissima virgine maria” transcribed from the Jena University Misc. Chorbuch Nr. 2 – 1512/25. To see the facsimile of the manuscript follow the external link below and click “Collections” tab. The time signatures, notes' values, accidentals and colourings are as in the manuscript. The perfect notes and rests have been dotted and ties have been used for the notes' values that cannot be exactly represented. The notes' values within the "ligaturæ" are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed notes are breves – the right dowstemmed notes are longæ. The “musica ficta” suggestions are in the MIDI and MusicXML files.

External websites:

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Original text and translations

Latin text

Ista est speciosa
inter filias Iherusalem
Viderunt eam filiæ Syon,
et beatissimam prædicaverunt,
et reginæ faciem eius laudaverunt.

"Pleni" versus dicta:

Tenor
'Carmina que(i) quondam studio florente peregi'

(Boetii Mallii Severini
De Philosophica Consolatione
Liber Primus)

Tenor secundus
'Flebilis heu mestos cogor inire modos'

(Boetii Mallii Severini
De Philosophica Consolatione
Liber Primus)

Barripharus
'Cantabat(it) vacuus coram latrone viator'

(Decimi Iunii Iuvenalis lapidaria)

Italian translation

Costei è magnifica
fra le figlie di Gerusalemme
La videro le figlie di Sion,
e la proclamarono beatissima,
e le regine lodarono la sua avvenenza.

Motti del “Pleni”

Tenor
'Io che un tempo scrissi carmi con vigoroso slancio'

Tenor secondo
'Sono costretto dolente ad intonare meste melodie'

Barripharus
'Il viandante squattrinato può cantare in faccia al rapinatore'

English translation

She is magnificent
among the daughters of Jerusalem.
The Zion's daughters saw her,
and declared her very blessed,
and the queens praised her attractiveness.

“Pleni” mottos

Tenor
'I who formerly wrote verses with handsome enthusiasm'

Second Tenor
'I'm forced sorrowful to sing sad melodies'

Barripharus
'The empty-handed traveler can sing before the robber'