Help Locating this Antiphon

monasteryliturgist

Dear All,

We have this very lovely antiphon from Fr. Weber in English. We would like to use it for our Investiture coming up but in Latin, does anyone know where this antiphon is in Latin, even if its not the same exact melody. I know that Fr. Weber normally bases everything off of the originals for the antiphons... any help would be welcomed. Thanks
https://ff1599f4-a-8b93fa25-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/sacredmusicus.org/sacred-music-us/file-cabinet/Arise,.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cq6ZqkvhtkpnPfJ7DS5e0MpnhtV6hF963n95U4BRqMaCgkgHJ8bMZEAD8Dc3RQ8A8md6Az-ZOj6E4jFg1VnEfQWmMDKS-x8XfgHVL5f3eh0BlyO8eGnh9lTnBBNeSMvHo7dttvEUCoW6_hSQ1kYh4iheTJN5APElze06aKSMXuS68HzpXIvDQQvHzsjojM6fpQJL80vRSppxyjqsjMYnir59-SQm3uXSUQP6vLAv6v5-_IDGzk=&attredirects=0

Andrew_Malton

I think Fr Weber composed this one.

The opening is quite typical of mode I including many introits and also the Communio (Amen dico vobis) for these three extra Sundays at the end of November.

After reminding myself of this melody of Fr Weber’s I found the offertory Bendicam Dominum going through my head. It's more complicated, but similar in a few ways. Perhaps Fr Weber had it in mind?

ServiamScores

It begins, "surge amica mea" but unfortunately, this does appear to veer off from the few extant examples of this text:
https://cantus.uwaterloo.ca/search?t=surge amica mea

a_f_hawkins

There is this - http://gregorianik.uni-regensburg.de/an/#id/2899
text in a different order, but there seem to be similarities in the melody, at least quotations of it.

Andrew_Malton

For me the Regensburg melodies being in mode II and VIII are less suggestive of Fr Weber's melody. But the text Iam hiems transiit, imber abiit et recessit / surge amica mea et veni, with the clauses reversed, could work well with Fr ’s melody, I think.

chonak

To give a specific example about the similar introits Andrew mentioned, the opening notes resemble the common introit melody "Gaudeamus omnes in Domino", used on several feasts, with varying words.

monasteryliturgist

Yes well the the beginning is very typical of Tone I Introits that we sing all the time but the rest is a little different... but I was just trying to see if this specific Antiphon is in Latin Somewhere... so that we don't have reinvent the wheel so to speak.

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