Festa Januaria (Anonymous)

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• CPDL #28827:  Sibelius

Editor: Walker Boyle (submitted 2013-04-22).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 80 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Includes second verse written by Christopher Page, of Gothic Voices.

General Information

Title: Festa Januaria
Composer: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: TTB

Genre: Sacred, Unknown

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

Published: c.13th century

Description: A 13th century conductus, possibly French in origin.

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Original text and translations

Latin text Festa januaria festiva sunt festorum, vera figuralia insignia signorum. Hec luminum oblatio, hec est illuminatio qua patet declaratio rataque rerum ratio. [Sillabatim neumata proinde perstringamus pariter organica; ornate predicamus quod reseratur janua et complanantur ardua. Cantemus nunc melliflua per festa januaria!] [second verse written by Christopher Page]

English translation The feasts of January are the festivities of all feasts, true symbols and the most significant of signs. This offering of lights is an illumination in which there is a declaration and a true understanding of things. [Let us therefore join musical phrases together, syllable by syllable, all of them equally polyphonic; we proclaim in an ornamented fashion that the door is unbarred and that the steep places have been levelled. Let us therefore sing honeyed things throughout the feasts of January!]