Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1968, Síða 334
29TH SEPT. IN DEDICATIONE S. MICHAELIS
D: 2a (2) Pangat] Clangat, 8b (15) quingenta dena] quingentas
nostras, 8b (15) super] ad, 9a (16) terrea] dena, 9a (16) vota]
uoca, 9a (16) hyperlyrica cithara] per liricam cytharam, 9b (17)
post] per, 9b (17) auream] aurea; — in i: 2a (2) Pangat] Clangat,
3b (5) quae] quem, 5b (9) -logica] -loga (this deviation has caused
confusion in the music).
The words of the sequence are also printed in Missale Nidrosiense.
Almost all of the words of the sequence can be pieced together from
the above-mentioned fragments, and all of the music, by supplying
what is missing in some half-verses from the parallel half-verses.
When the music for the same words appears in several MSS. they
do not always agree with each other, and the music of the two
halves of a verse is not always identical. In such cases both melody
forms are presented in the following transcription. On the whole
it may be said that the melody is rather loose in details, although
it is pretty consistent in its main lines. Both Schubiger (No. 29) and
Moberg (No. 31) have published it, the latter from 8 collated sources;
and our fragments are mainly in agreement with these publications.
On the verso of A — viz. from the second half of v. 8b to the
end — the key g is used (while it is c on the recto), the notes having
the same places in the staff as in D, which uses the c key to the end
of the sequence. The result is that in A the melody is transposed a
fifth up. The same is the case with 4 of Moberg’s sources, which he
has transposed down; the same has been done in our transcription.
The reason for the transposition in A is not clear. One might,
however, direct attention to the odious interval, the tritonus F, b
(natural) in v. 9 (on “(eth)ra nos” and “(bel)la mi-”) in D, which by
transposing it up becomes the perfect fourth c, /. Of course, the
tritonus in D might be transformed to a perfect fourth through
b flat; but D uses no flåts. None the less, most of the other MSS.
of this sequence which use no transposition to the fifth above, use
b flat from v. 8 on, even if they do not contain the interval F, b flat
here, but have instead F, a.
“Mater sequentiarum"
IjT.i i4f antl-J ™ J l> f r
11) Ad ce- le-bres rex oe- 11- ce lau-des cun- ota. (2a) Clan-gat
(to) 0- daa
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