While we cant be sure, the fluid counterpoint of his 1572 motet o magnum mysterium, which sets a matins chant telling of the wonder of the sight of the newborn christ, is worthy of the italian master himself. Kathryn louderback holiday music, music in time, works in depth christmas, church, gregorian chant, motet, renaissance, spanish. Sacred, motet, magnificat antiphon for christmas day. This arrangement for brass quartet will make a powerful addition to any concert or recital. Ack in 2015, i created individual rehearsal videos for o magnum mysterium, and tens of thousands have downloaded them. O magnum mysterium victoria sheet music for piano download.
Print and download in pdf or midi o magnum mysterium. As part of the matins nighttime worship, the text has been around for centuries. A leading figure of sacred music in his native spain during the counterreformation, victoria wrote this piece early in his career, when he was a singer and organist in rome. Program notes, texts, and translations the major focus of todays program is sacred music of the renaissance. Search o magnum mysterium sheet music at jw pepper.
It included what has become one of the canonical settings of o magnum mysterium. O magnum mysterium in circumcisione domini 1572, 1583b. O magnum mysterium the first two of the settings of o magnum mysterium that we are going to sing today were composed during this time. Carducci quartet play the wexford carol a classic fm. And yet the young spanish composer offers nothing truly revolutionary in the work. I really liked listening to this piece so i thought to arrange it for saxophone quartet. In 1571 he succeeded palestrina there as choirmaster, a post he also subsequently occupied at the jesuit orders german college. Third part content is taken under directives of article 32 of real decreto 11996, of intelectual property. The masses, o magnum mysterium and o quam gloriosum. He was sent to rome to study, possibly for a time under palestrina during the latters years at the roman seminary. O magnum mysterium in circumcisione domini motecta, venetiis, 1572. The motet o magnum mysterium published in 1572 has been a favourite of choirs ever since the revival of victoria s music eighty years ago.
Well, lets remember thattwenty years after composing o magnum mysterium fr. O magnum mysterium javier busto pdf 12 joiblowecout. Victoria o magnum mysterium the cambridge singers youtube. O ma gnum myste ri um, et admi ra bi le sacra menaf fffe i j j k k k k j n k k k kz k k k k k o ma gnum mys te ri um, et admi af fffe l m j j j jz k fk k j n k k k a m ffffe l l l l l l bffffe l l l l l l 7 tum, o ma gnum af. Research center and abvlensis images are registered at o. Missa o magnum mysterium is derived from victoria s motet o magnum mysterium which is perhaps one of the most famous works of the renaissance period. He was the most famous composer of the 16th century in spain, and is considered by many to be second only to palestrina as a composer of sacred polyphony at the time.
O magnum mysterium is a catholic church chant sung at christmastime. Motets o magnum mysterium and o vos omnes as interactive. Beata virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt portare dominum christum. One of victoria s most endearing creations, it unfolds serenely, richly. In 1565 after his voice had changed, victoria received a grant from philip ii to attend the. Although the original publication entitles it in circuncisione domini, its text is taken from a responsory of christmas matins and its use has always been as a christmas motet. I am taking music history at the college i am attending for music. In the missa o magnum mysterium victoria swings into triple time briefly just once in the gloria, fleetingly three times in the credo, and then to great effect in the. August 20, 1611 was a spanish composer of the late renaissance. Pdf choral satb a cappella religious sacred license.
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