After months of searching, I've finally located the Sarum Rite Sequence for use at the traditional EF Votive Mass "Recordare" for use in time of pestilence.
Does anyone know of the original music for this? I assume it could be used as a Motet at Mass during this pandemic.
It is given, in Latin with a poetic English translation, on pages 261-266 in Appendix D of 'Musica sanat corpus per animam': Toward Understanding of the Use of Music in Response to Plague, 1350-1600, the doctoral thesis of Christopher Brian Macklin. He provides his sources as follows:
Dickinson, Francisci Henrici, ed. Missale Ad Usum Insignis Et Praeclare Ecclesie Sarum. 4 vols. Vol. 2. (Comune Sanctorum). London & Oxford: J. Parker & Soc., 1867, cols. 886*-890*. The translation of the sequence is adapted from The Sarum Missal in English, trans. Frederick E. Warren. 2 vols. Vol. 2. London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., 1913, p. 203-06.
I have divided it into three parts – a prayer to the Lord for deliverance; a list of Old Testament exemplars of penitence and intercession; and an appeal to Our Lady for her aid – and numbered the verses.
In order to shorten this rather long text to make its use more practical, I have placed asterisks before those verses that are not ad rem and can be omitted.
Use as a contrafactum the melody for Dies Irae? (For all I know, which is not too much, it's not necessarily a contrafactum but perhaps because that melody would have been well known it suited the pestilence text and was used that way, so that a custom melody may never have been created for it.)
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