Choirbook 12_05

Choirbook 12_05

[sheet 8v:] ‘In dedicatione’

Benedic Domine domum istam

Anonymous (source)
Rovetta, Giovanni (?) (attributed)

Benedic Domine domum istam (sheets 8v–10r)

4 vocal parts: Cantus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus

C1, C2, C3, F3

Responsorium

3rd Nocturn 'in vigilia Dedicationis Ecclesiae'
cf. Cattin: San Marco, vol. 2, p. 141

Motet

The attribution to Giovanni Rovetta is conjectural: the presence of two motets attributed to the composer and a fragment of a Magnificat suggests that Choirbook 12 is the volume of ‘Magnificats and motets by Rovetta’ listed in Marchio Angeli’s inventory of 1720 (no. 41).

Caffi: San Marco
Collarile: Sacri concerti
Collarile: Suono dell’eterno
Moore: Ceremoniale
Moore: Vespers at St Mark’s
Passadore, Rossi: San Marco, no. 1927 (5)

Benedic Domine domum istam
quam aedificavi nomini tuo
venientium in loco isto
exaudi preces in excelso solio gloriae tuae
quia venient ad eam omnes gentes
et dicent: Gloria tibi Domine.

CAO no 6235
For the final two versets cf. CAO nos 6755 and 6756.

Choirbook 12