Dear all, I am trying to find the following antiphons for St. Joseph Ordo Cantus Offici pg.179
Laudes: 2. Erat Ioseph et Maria, mater Iesu, mirantes super his quae dicebantur de illo. 3. Consurgens Ioseph, accepit puerum et matrem eius nocte, et secessit in Aegyptum, et erat ibi usque ab obitum Herodis. Benedictus- Admonitus in somnis Ioseph secessit in partes Galiaeae, et veniens habitavit in civitate quae vocatur Nazareth, ut adminpleretr quod dictum est per prophetas: Quoniam Nazaraeus vocabitur.
If it is found in the Liber Usualis, I couldnt find it neither in May 1st nor March 19th. Where do these come from?
For anyone who might be interested, the texts of second and third of these three antiphons, with different music, appear as part of Matins for the Feast of St. Joseph in the manuscript antiphonal from colonial Mexico that I've been studying. "Consurgens Joseph" is the Antiphon I of the 2nd Nocturn, and "Admonitus in somnis" is Antiphon II of the 3rd Nocturn. This manuscript probably dates from the early 19th century, or possibly late 18th. The music might have been (then) newly composed, or it might reflect a "neo-Mozarabic" style that saw a resurgence in both Old & New Spain in the 18th century (Susan Boynton has written about this). I'm attaching a thumbnail of the first page of "Consurgens Joseph" from the manuscript and my transcription in modern notation. (Notes: The five-line staff was conventional for chant books in the Spanish world until the Solesmes reforms. I also retained the barlines between the words as they appear in the manuscript; this seems to have been common in later chant books.)
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