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In natali Domini
Anonymous (15th c.) ed. Jordan Sramek and Daniel Mahraun
A swaying, 3-part, Christmas motet from Renaissance Bohemia.
ATB
A selection in Latin from the famed Codex Speciálník, this piece will challenge your ensemble’s intonation with its open-fifth cadences. While the ATB work appears in its original key, it may be transposed to suit other voicings.
Composer’s Notes
Copied in Prague by more than 30 scribes, Codex Speciálník (“special songbook”) is a collection of over 200 liturgical works, probably compiled for the needs of the Utraquist Protestant literary brotherhood. Alongside a number of mostly anonymous Czech-language pieces are almost 20 Latin motets by Polish composer Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz (1392 – c. 1480), small devotional works by Englishmen Walter Frye (d. 1474?) and John Plummer (c. 1410 – c. 1484), and a wide range of masses and motets from notable Franco-Flemish/Netherlandish composers including Gaspar van Weerbeke (c. 1445 – post 1516), Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450 – 1517), Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – c. 1512), and Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 – 1521). Although the codex is currently kept in the Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), it has only been there since 1901, when it was purchased in Prague from an antique collector.
Text
In natali Domini
Gaudent omnes angeli
Et cantant cum iubilo
Gloriam uni deo.
Virgo deum genuit,
Virgo deum preperit,
Virgo semper intacta.
Nuntiavit angelus
Gaudium pastoribus
Christi nativitatem
Magnam jucunditatem.
Virgo deum…
Natus est Emanuel
Quem predixit Gabriel
Testis est Ezechiel
A patre processit El.
Virgo deum…
Christus natus hodie
Ex Maria virgine
Non conceptus semine
Apparuit hodie.
Virgo deum…
TRANSLATION:
On the birthday of the Lord,
Let all the angels praise
And sing with jubilation:
Glory to the one God.
A Virgin bore God,
A Virgin would prepare God,
A Virgin always chaste.
The angel announced
Joy to the shepherds
The birth of Christ—
Great joy.
A Virgin bore God…
Emanuel is born,
Whom Gabriel foretold,
Ezekiel is a witness.
From the father proceeded El.
A Virgin bore God…
Christ is born today
From the Virgin Mary
Not conceived by seed,
He appeared today.
A Virgin bore God…
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