Sufficiebat nobis paupertas nostra (Jean Richafort): Difference between revisions
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Our poverty was enough for us, | Our poverty was enough for us, | ||
that it might have been accounted riches. | that it might have been accounted riches. | ||
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Alas, my son, | Alas, my son, | ||
wherefore have we sent thee wandering, | wherefore have we sent thee wandering, | ||
even thee, the light of our eyes? | |||
The staff of our old age!}} | The staff of our old age!}} | ||
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- (Posted 2019-03-16) CPDL #53583:
- Editor: Andrew Fysh (submitted 2019-03-16). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 479 kB Copyright: CC BY SA
- Edition notes: At original pitch. Original note values retained in Superius part only (note values halved in other parts - see Editorial Notes in score).
General Information
Title: Sufficiebat nobis paupertas nostra
Composer: Jean Richafort
Lyricist: Tobit 5:24–26 and 10:4create page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATBB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Many sources of this work pre-date Attaingnant s 1534 collection, suggesting that Richafort might have composed it while serving in the French Royal Chapel in the 1510s. The marking Mon souvenir in Attaingnant's Superius partbook acknowledges Richafort's having employed the Tenor line of Mon souvenir me fait mourir by Hayne van Ghizeghem, a prolific chanson composer of the late 15th century. Set in augmentation, the resultant slow-moving cantus firmus in the uppermost voice — almost certainly representing Anna, berating her husband (Tobit) and bewailing the absence of her son (Tobias) — creates an unusually inverted soundscape.
The text (from from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit) is a Responsory for Ember Friday of September. The only other known setting, by Jacquet of Mantua (1483–1559), also appears in the Rusconi Codex [1518] and is based on the same chanson.
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Original text and translations
 Latin textSufficiébat nobis paupértas nostra, |
 English translationOur poverty was enough for us, |