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Ave maris stella in a 14th-century antiphonary "Ave maris stella" (Latin for 'Hail, star of the sea') is a medieval Marian hymn, ... Guillaume Dufay and William Byrd.
Often the harmonization used a technique of parallel writing known as fauxbourdon, as in the following example, a setting of the Marian antiphon Ave maris stella: Portion of Du Fay's setting of Ave maris stella, in fauxbourdon. The top line is a paraphrase of the chant; the middle line, designated "fauxbourdon", (not written) follows the top ...
The plainsong hymn Ave Maris Stella ("Hail, Star of the Sea") dates from about the 8th century. Paschasius Radbertus in the 9th century has an allegorical explanation of the name, writing that Mary is the "Star of the Sea" to be followed on the way to Christ, "lest we capsize amid the storm-tossed waves of the sea."
Example of fauxbourdon. This is a portion of Ave Maris Stella, a Marian Antiphon, in a setting by Guillaume Du Fay, transcribed into modern notation. The top and bottom lines are freely composed; the middle line, designated "fauxbourdon" in the original, follows the contours of the top line while always remaining exactly a perfect fourth below.
There are no manuscript sources that can be dated before 1502, and Planchart [1]: 92 suggests that the mass can be dated around the 1480s. Because of its style the work is probably the earliest among the other masses based on a gregorian plainsong that Josquin started composing by the middle of his compositional career (the others being Ave maris stella, De Beata Virgine, Da pacem and Pange ...
Ave Maria (3) Ave Regina coelorum (4) Ave Trinitatis sanctuarium (4) Beatae Mariae Magdalenae (1) Beatus Laurentius orabat (1) Canite tuba in Sion. Rorate coeli (2) Cantantibus organis. Biduanis ac triduanis (3) Caput ejus aurum optimum* (4) Caro mea vere est cibus (3) Coenantibus illis accepit Jesus (2) Congrega, Domine. Afflige opprimentes ...
Ave Maris stella; Regina caeli; Salve Regina; Alma redemptoris mater; Ave Regina caelorum; Holy Week and Easter. Alleluia – [Vespere autem sabbathi] Quae lucescit;
John Dunstaple (or Dunstable; c. 1390 – 24 December 1453) was an English composer whose music helped inaugurate the transition from the medieval to the Renaissance periods. [1]