Summi triumphum regis I (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Renato Calcaterra (submitted 2011-11-03). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 124 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: The source (MusicXML) file is zipped
General Information
Title: Summi triumphum regis I
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: ATT
Genre: Sacred, Sequence hymn for Ascension
Language: Latin
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Trent 89, 1460's
Description: A “sequentia” for the Ascension transcribed from the Trent manuscripts tr89. The time signatures, notes’ values and colourings are as in the manuscript, the coloured notes are in “proportio sesquialtera” (3 vs. 2). Only the “a” part (see the text section below) of the verses have the polyphonic setting, for the first, last and “b” part of the verses the Gregorian melody is to be used. The notes' values within the "ligaturæ" are as follows: the left upstemmed notes are semibreves - the unstemmed notes are breves, th right downstemmed notes are longæ. The “musica ficta” suggestions are in the MIDI and the MusicXML files.
External websites: http://www1.trentinocultura.net/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=22652&mode=2
Original text and translations
Latin text
1. Summi triumphum Regis prosequamur laude.
2a. Qui cæli, qui terræ regit sceptra inferni jure domito.
2b. Qui sese pro nobis redimendis per magnum dedit precium.
3a. Huic nomen extat conveni'ens Idithum.
3b. Nam transilivit omnes strenue montes colliculosque Bethel,
4a. Saltum de cælo dedit in virginalem ventrem, inde in pelagus seculi.
4b. Postquam illud suo mitigavit potentatu, tetras Phlegethontis assiliit tenebras.
5a. Principis illius disturbato imperio.
5b. Maniplis plurimis inde erutis, mundum illustrat suo jubare.
6a. Captivitatemque detentam in ibi, victor duxit secum.
6b. Et redivivum jam suis se præbuit servis et amicis.
7a. Denique saltum dederat hodie maximum, nubes polosque cursu præpeti transiens.
7b. Celebret ergo populus hunc diem credulus cujus morbida, Idithum, corpora in semetipso altis sedibus cæli invexit Dei Filius.
8a. Et tremens, judicem expectat adfuturum, ut duo angeli fratres docuerunt,
8b. Qui Jesus a vobis assumptus est in cælum, iterum veniet, ut vidistis eum.
9a. Jam Idithum nostrum vocibus sedulis omnes imploremus,
9b. Ut a dextris Patris qui sedet, Spiritum mittat nobis sanctum,
10. In fine sæculi, ipse quocque semper sit nobiscum.