Vexilla Christus inclyta

Jeffrey Quick

Does anyone know if the Lauds hymn for Christ the King (Vexilla Christus inclyta) originally set another text, and what that text might be?

The Bryden and Hughes index only points to modern sources by title, and I've never been able to figure out the by-incipit volume. I might try the online volumes of Analecta Hymnica on the off chance that it's an old text and not 20th-century; if it is, there may be a "sung to the tune of..." note.

I'm hoping to find a polyphonic setting of the hymn tune that I can slap words into. RISM comes up empty-handed (it does index some 20th-century music)

a_f_hawkins

Not that it helps, but there are at least two quite different settings, 1934 and 1960. https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=12113
https://gregobase.selapa.net/chant.php?id=4173
And organum loosely based on the 1960, which suggests the possibilty of an ancient source IF this comment "The semiological reference for the interpretation is the seminal work of D. Cardine." relates to this piece and not just to the composer's approach -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_mns0x69Mc

a_f_hawkins

Some background info here, lots of other texts for the 1960 tune :-
https://archive.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/19/05/23/03-33-07_0.pdf

tomjaw

This index is incomplete ie. it does not have the Dominican books

http://www.globalchant.org/text-details.php?text=Vexilla-Christus-inclyta

Both melodies list are used by other hymns,
http://www.globalchant.org/melody-search.php?melody=1310234547
http://www.globalchant.org/melody-search.php?melody=154576545

liampmcdonough

"I'm hoping to find a polyphonic setting of the hymn tune that I can slap words into"

Are you set on a historical pairing? There are plenty of long meter office hymns with polyphonic settings that could be reinterpolated. See this page for LM tunes of the Liber Hymnarius.

http://liberhymnarius.org/index.php?title=Category:8.8.8.8

Jeffrey Quick

I'm looking for a historical pairing, even if the history only goes back to 1960. I could make Christi Regis hymn motets until the cows come home, given that LM is THE Latin hymn meter.But I'd like there to be some liturgical connection to the current prescribed tune.

a_f_hawkins

The text of the hymn was written by Fr Vittorio Genovesi (1887-1967), according to Fr John Hunwicke, (who quotes no source), so we can't expect a history prior to that. The tune in AM1960 has long been used particularly at Pentecost.

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