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2ND febr. in purificatione beatae m. V.
The music is presumably the same as that of “Eia recolamus”,
entitled “Eia turma”, a tune often used. In the sequence at hånd the
tune is called “Adorabo minor”.
There are, however, some slight differences in the metre — and
accordingly in the music — between “Eia...” and “Claris vocibus”.
One is that the latter omits a verse equivalent to v. 1 in “Eia”,
so that its first verse, “Claris...”, has the same form as the 2nd
(“Huius diei...”) in the former sequence (as in AH 7). In AH 53,
however, a verse 1, comprising only “Alleluia”, is placed before
“Claris...”, which becomes v. 2. But this “Alleluia” appears in one
MS. only; and it is very doubtful whether it stood in the lost leaf
of k containing the beginning of the sequence.
As the music of the part of our sequence preserved in k — viz.
from v. 2 on, corresponding to vv. 3 ff. in “Eia” — is almost exactly
the same as that one, this probably applies to the missing parts too, as
far as the metre permits. In the following transcription the music
to these parts is therefore provided from that of “Eia”, giving, to
begin with, the verse “Claris” with the music of the verse “Huius”
(adapted a little).1
Another difference is that our sequence interpolates after its v. 8
v. 9 in “Eia”) a verse “Et quietem...”, numbering it the 9th,
so that the lOth verse both in “Eia” and “Claris” has the same metre
and (presumably) melody.
As to this v. 9 in “Claris” it may be pointed out that all the
sequences with the same metre as this one — i. e. entitled “Adorabo
minor” — have a verse of this form interpolated between the 9th
and lOth verse of the otherwise similar sequence form “Eia turma”.
Moberg gives the melody of “Eia recolamus” as Singweise No. 43,
where he collates 9 MSS. (1 Swedish, and 8 foreign), of which 2 are
from “Paris 1235” (i. e. Codex lat. nouv. acquis. No. 1235, Trop. et
pros. ms. Niuernense saec. 12, in the Bibi. Nat., Paris). From one
of these he prints as v. 10a, with music, the words: “et quieta nobis
1. I have not been able to obtain a photograph of the whole sequence “Claris voci-
bus” with the music in choral notation, but only of a specimen from Trop. ms. Win-
toniense saec. (10 ex. et) 11. Cod. Oxonien. Bodi. 775, giving the music in neumas
(it dates from before the invention of the Guidonian staff). From these neumas
it is not possible to learn the exact notes, but only, at best, the rise and fail of
the melody.
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