Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1968, Page 131
O MIRA DOMINI PIETAS - CONCENTU PARILI
zuschicken, obgleich ihre Melodie bis auf zwei Noten sich vollig mit
jener von Str. 2 deckt. Das entspricht nicht dem sonst immer ge-
bråuchlichen Schema dieser Sequenz; auch alles andere spricht fiir
Interpolation.”
This is perhaps not altogether correct. Neither metre nor melody
is quite the same in the verses “Concentu...” and “Generosi..
whereas the two half-verses “Generosi” and “Sanctissima” are the
same in both respects, and thereby fit to make parallel halves of
a verse. It is also noteworthy that the sequence “Compassa filio”
(AH 53, No. 103) begins with an introductory clause in just the
same metre as “Concentu”, and has parallel half-verses only from
v. 2 on.
Apart from these two sequences, the same volume of AH contains
four others with (mainly) the same metre and melody, in which the
introductory clause, just as is the case with “Concentu”, is regarded
as the first half of a verse, although it differs somewhat from the
second half both in the number of syllables and in the music.
Lastly, the so-called interpolation “Sanctissima ...” (v. 2b) already
appears in the oldest MSS. of “Concentu”, viz. from the lOth century.
It seems as if the form with an introductory clause without a
parallel, and with parallelism only from v. 2 on, was the original
one, and that the reason why the second half of v. 2 has been
dropped, and the first half of it regarded as the pendant to the in-
troductory clause, the two thus forming a verse with (supposed)
parallelism, is that the music in them is very much alike; indeed, the
latter part is identical in them. But a perfect parallelism, comprising
a whole verse, one gets only through a following half-verse which
repeats both the metre and the music of v. Ib (2a here).
pe- pu-lus te-que pi-ls co- Ilt cor-dl-bus. (2a) Ge- ne-ro-sl
(b) San-ctis-sl-ma
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