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Choirbook 4_01

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‘In Nativitate S[ancti] Io[annis] Bapt[istae]’

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris

Anonymous (source)
Cavalli, Francesco (attribution)

Other attributions:
Furlanetto, Bonaventura
Rovetta, Antonio
Rovetta, Giovanni

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris (fols 1v-3r)
Ille promissi dubius superni (fols 3v-5r)
Sit decus Patri genitaeque proli (fols 5v-7r)

4 vocal parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus

C1, C3, C4, F4

Hymn Ut queant laxis, strophes 1, 3 and 5 AH vol. 50, no. 96

Second Vespers, Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June)

Hymn

I-Vnm, It. IV 1136 (=10965)

For the attribution to Francesco Cavalli, see Collarile: Ad uso della Cappella Ducale. Previously the hymn was attributed to Bonaventura Furlanetto (Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1933), Giovanni Rovetta (Caffi: San Marco, p. 447; and label on source, fol. [1r]) and Antonio Rovetta (I-Vnm, Cod. It. IV 1136 [=10965]).

The text follows the version of the hymn reformed by Urban VIII (BR 1632, p. 895). Strophe 5 is absent from the hymn as given in PD, p. 124.

Caffi: San Marco
Collarile: Ad uso della Cappella Ducale
Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Moore: Ceremoniale
Moore: Vespers at St Mark's
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1933

Strophe 1
Ut queant laxis resonare fibris,
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum,
Solve polluti labii reatum,
Sancte Ioannes.

Strophe 3
Ille promissi dubius superni,
Perdidit promptae modulos loquelae:
Sed reformasti genitus peremptae,
Organa vocis.

Strophe 5
Sit decus Patri genitaeque proli
Et tibi compar utriusque virtus
Spiritus semper, Deus unus omni
temporis aevo.

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