One of my favorite polyphonic pieces by Tomás Luis de Victoria (da Vittoria)( –), based on the hymn by Bernard Clairveaux. Tomás Luis de Victoria. Jesu, dulcis memoria, hymn for 4 voice (spurious). Composition Information ↓; Description ↓; Appears On ↓. Share on. facebook. list of some works attributed erroneously to Victoria. Victoria published a total of 15 collections of music during his life (see section Jesu Dulcis Memoria.

This status notwithstanding, the piece may be appreciated on its own merits. It sets, in a fairly simple manner, the first victorka of a hymn attributed again probably spuriously to St.

The hymn, a centerpiece in Bernard’s reputation as Doctor mellifluous, celebrates the sweetness of Jesus’ presence; in English it is usually rendered “Jesus, the very thought of thee.

Jesu-dulcis-memoria

Opera OmniaVol. Original text and translations may be found at Jesu dulcis memoria. Chormusik zur Advents- und Weihnachtsliturgie. Listen to a free recording of this piece from Coro Nostroa mixed chamber choir based in Leicester, UK.

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Nine Centuries of Choral Music. Incipit First Publication or before Genre Categories Motets ; Sacred hymns msmoria Hymns ; Religious works ; For 4 voices ; For unaccompanied voices ; Scores featuring the voice ; Latin language ; For 2 trumpets, 2 trombones arr ; For 4 players ; Scores featuring the trumpet ; Scores featuring the trombone.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. The attribution was made by a French dilettante the son of one of Napoleon’s marshals in the late nineteenth century, and attested by Pedrell in the Victoria Opera omnia and several generations of performances.

Sabine Cassola submitted Authorship Note Grove Music considers the attribution of this work to Victoria to be “spurious”.

This page was last edited on 9 Decemberat Sacred Songs of Hope. MusicXML source file is in compressed. Naxos Javascript not enabled. Rick Wheeler submitted Casey Rule submitted This anonymous setting gives notes only for the first stanza; presumably all the odd stanzas would be sung to this music, with the even ones alternating in plainchant.

James Gibb submitted ITV 55 First Pub lication. Doubtful or spurious works. Abel Di Marco submitted Recueil des morceaux de musique ancienneVol. Dulcls is required for this feature.

These file s are part of the Werner Icking Music Collection. Creative Commons Attribution 3. Letter, 2 pages, Includes a keyboard reduction of the a cappella choral score. The most salient feature of the setting is the richness of harmonic palette, which uses twenty-six accidental inflections in a mere twenty-three breves of music, including a rare D sharp.

Whoever composed this little piece certainly understood the proto-Baroque pathos of harmonic language. The music contains small moments of memoris, but remains primarily homophonic.

Jesu, dulcis memoria (Tomás Luis de Victoria)

Rainy Day Relaxation Road Trip. Andrew Crookall submitted This work has been misattributed. Suggested dynamics added by editor.