Novus annus, 3 settings from the Trent codices (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2010-05-17)  CPDL #21610:    (MIDI) (XML)

Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2010-05-17).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 160 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: MIDI and MusicXML files are zipped. Original note values.

Possible error(s) identified. Error summary: Text underlay is incomplete

General Information

Title: Novus annus
Composer: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3 & 4vv   Voicings: ATT and SATT
Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

    Manuscript post 1445 in the Trent codices codices 89 & 91, no. 89-030
    Manuscript post 1445 in the Trent codices codices 89 & 91, no. 89-107
    Manuscript post 1445 in the Trent codices codices 89 & 91, no. 93-258
Description: Three different settings, from two manuscripts, of a "conductus" for the Feast of Fools (festum stultorum) and the Feast of the Ass (Festum Asinorum). In the third setting only the Superius has the text, suggesting that the Tenor and the Contra can be played with instruments.

Original text and translations

Latin text Novus annus hodie Monet nos letitiae Laudes inchoare. Eya rex nos adiuva qui gubernas omnia. Puer conducitur Et elegi subicit Puer eternalis. Eya rex… Felix est principium Cuius finem gaudium Solet terminare. Eya rex…

English translation Translation by Eric Betthauser The new year today teaches us to begin our glad rejoicing. Eya! Help us, O master who governs all. Happy is the new beginning of which praise is the object and end.