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Tribum que non abhorruit ; Quoniam secta latronum; Merito hec patimur
Three-voice motet by Philippe de Vitry

Sources

Rostocker Liederbuch, fol. 43 (2/2).
Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Handschriften-Inkunabelabteilung, Latinus monacensis 5362, Kasten D IV ad [31] (Triplum fragment);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 146, fol. 41v-42 (3/2);
Strasbourg: Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22, fol. 71-71v (3/2).

Facsimiles

1. Bruxelles, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Royal de Musique. (A copy by Edmond de Coussemaker of 48 compositions from F-Sm 222), n52.
2. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965], p. 144 (Pn146).
3. Le Roman de Fauvel, manuscrit inédit de la Bibliothèque Nationale (français 146) reproduit par un procédé photographique inaltérable, facsimile edition by Pierre Aubry, Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1907, (Fauv).
4. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, edited by Friedrich Blume, 16 vols., Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter, 1949 ff, p. 1885 (Pn146).
5. BESSELER, Heinrich and Peter GÜLKE. Schriftbild der mehrstimmigen Musik, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1973. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, vol. 3, part 5, p. 99.
6. HOPPIN, Richard H. Medieval Music, New York: W. W. Norton, 1978, pp. 358-359 (Pn146).
7. ROESNER, Edward H. Le Roman de Fauvel in the edition of Mesire Chaillou de Pesstain, New York: Broude Brothers, 1990.

Editions

1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965], Vol. III, p. 191 (Pn146).
2. The Roman de Fauvel; The Works of Philippe de Vitry; French Cycles of the Ordinarium Missae, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century I, p. 54.
3. FULLER, Sarah. The European Musical Heritage 800-1750, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Text Editions

BLACHLY, Alexander. The Motets of Philippe de Vitry, Columbia University (M.A. thesis), p. 79.

Literature

1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965].
2. LUDWIG, Friedrich. 'Die Quellen der Motetten ältesten Stils', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, V (1923): 185-222; 273-315.
3. BORREN, Charles van den. Le manuscrit musical 222 C. 22 de la bibliothèque de Strasbourg (XVe siècle) brulé en 1870, et reconstitué d'après une copie d'Edmond de Coussemaker, Antwerp: E. Secelle, 1924, pp. 124-126, 198.
4. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. II. Die Motette von Franko von Köln bis Philippe von Vitry', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VIII (1926): 137-258.
5. RANKE, F. & J. M. MÜLLER-BLATTAU. Das Rostocker Liederbuch, Halle: 1927. Schriften der Königsberger gelehrten Gesellschaft, geisteswissenschaftliche Klasse, Year 4, Book 5.
6. STRECKER, K. 'Walter von Chatillon und seine Schule', Zeitschrift des deutschen Altertums, LXIV (1927).
7. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Zweiter Band: Einleitung zu I. Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais. II. Motetten. III. Messe und Lais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1928.
8. WOLF, Johannes. Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch, XIV (1929):
9. SCHRADE, Leo. Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der ältesten Instrumentalmusik, Lahr (Baden): M. Schauenburg, 1931.
10. DAHNK, Emilie. L'hérésie de Fauvel, Leipzig: C. & E. Vogel, 1935. Leipziger romanistische Studien II, Literatur-wissenschaftliche Reihe, Heft 4.
11. BECKER, Philip August. 'Fauvel und Fauvelliana', Berichte über die Verhandlungen der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (Philologish-Historische Klasse), LXXXVIII/2 (1936): 1-45.
12. ZWICK, Gabriel. 'Deux motets inédits de Philippe de Vitry et de Guillaume de Machaut', Revue de musicologie, XXVII (1948), p. 34.
13. HOPPIN, Richard H. 'A musical rotulus of the fourteenth century', Revue belge de musicologie, IX (1955): 131-142.
14. SCHRADE, Leo. 'Philippe de Vitry: some new discoveries', Musical Quarterly, XLII (1956): 330-354.
15. REICHERT, Georg. 'Das Verhältnis zwischen musikalischer und textlicher Struktur in den Motetten Machauts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XIII (1956), p. 213.
16. The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, Musée Condé, 564 (olim 1047) and Modena, Biblioteca Estense, a M. 5,24 (olim lat. 568), edited by Ursula Günther, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 39, p. xxx.
17. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
18. THIELE, Siegfried. 'Zeitstrukturen in den Motetten des Philippe de Vitry und ihre Bedeutung für zeitgenossisches Komponieren', Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, CXXXV/7 (1974), pp. 426-428.
19. SANDERS, Ernest H. 'The early motets of Philippe de Vitry', Journal of the American Musicological Society, XXVIII (1975): 24-45.
20. BESSELER, Heinrich and Peter GÜLKE. Schriftbild der mehrstimmigen Musik, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1973. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, vol. 3, part 5, pp. 54-57.
21. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
22. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Philippe de Vitry in Italy: an Homage of Francesco Landini to Philippe', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento IV: Certaldo 1975, 1978, p. 226.
23. GAGNEPAIN, Bernard. 'La musique en France a l'arrivée de Guillaume de Machaut', Guillaume de Machaut, poète et compositeur. Colloque - Table Ronde, 1978, p. 279.
24. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Une version a cinq voix du motet "Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis" dans le manuscript E-BCEN 853', Musica Disciplina, XXXIX (1985): 5-44.
25. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 264-265.

Recordings

1. Missa Tournai um 1330. Motetten um 1320, Capella Antiqua München, directed by Konrad Ruhland (1967): Telefunken AW6 41231 (SAWT 9517) (GER).
2. Le Roman de Fauvel, 1310-1316, Clemencic Consort, directed by Rene Clemencic (1975): Harmonia Mundi HMF 994 (FRA).
3. Philippe de Vitry 1291-1361, Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton, Sequentia (1991): RD 77 095.
4. Philippe de Vitry and the Ars Nova, Robert Hare-Jones (CT), Charles Daniels (T), Angus Smith (T), Donald Greig (Bar), Orlando Consort (1991): CD-SAR 49.

Text

TRIPLUM
Tribum que non abhorruit
indecenter ascendere
furibunda non metuit
Fortuna cito vertere
dum duci prefate tribus
in sempiternum speculum
parare palam omnibus
non pepercit patibulum.
populus ergo ventirus
si trans metam ascenderit
quidem si forsitan casurus
cum tanta tribus ruerit
sciat eciam quis fructus
delabi sit in profundam:
"Post zephyros plus ledit hyems
post gaudia luctus;
unde nichil melius quam nil
habuisse secundum".

MOTETUS
Quoniam secta latronum
spelunca vispilionum
vulpes que Gallos roderat
tempore quo regnaverat
leo cecatus subito
suo ruere merito
in morta privata bonis
concinat Gallus Nasonis
dicta que dolum acuunt:
"omnia sunt hominum tenui
pendencia filo
et subito casu que
valuere ruunt".

TENOR
Merito hec patimur.

Translation

TRIPLUM
In a flash, raging Fortune
fearlessly toppled the tribe
which did not shrink from seizing power
in a disgraceful way;
she did not spare its leader the gibbet.
that she might reduce him publicly
as an eternal example for all men.
If any people in the future
should go beyond the limit.
in which case they may well fall
since such a tribe has just fallen.
they should know what fruits
falling to the depths will be:
after the gentle West Wind
the stormy tempest bears more affliction;
so also of sorrow after joy;
from which it follows
that nothing is better than to have nothing favourable.

MOTETUS
Since the band of thieves.
the den of grave-robbers.
and the fox who gnawed away at the roosters
while the blind lion reigned
all have suddenly fallen
by their own faults and encountered death
deprived of their possessions.
may the rooster now sing the words of Ovid
which cuttingly mock their deceit:
all man's fortunes are held
suspended by a thread
and when suddenly it breaks.
those who were strong fall.

TENOR
Justly we suffer this.
Text revision and translation © Alexander Blachly

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003

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