Help with a Presentation on Marian Music
  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 639
    I am giving a Presentation in January for a group on Marian Liturgical Music. I am wondering if anyone has good resources on the following topics

    The Most Ancient Antiphons
    -Sub Tuum Praesidium
    -Axion Estis (Byzantine)
    -any others that should be included---?

    Compline Antiphons
    -Alma Redemptoris
    -Salve Regina
    -Regina Caeli
    -Ave Regina Caelorum
    -Any other ad libitum traditions

    Marian Sequences
    -Stabat Mater Dolorosa vs. Speciosa
    -Verbum Bonum et Suave
    -Inviolata
    -Any other important ones?

    Notable Greg.Hymns
    -Ave Maris Stella
    -Salve Mater Misericordiae
    -The Angelus
    -Angelus ad Virginum
    -Akathist Hymn
    -Tota Pulchra Es

    Information on Colonization of USA with Natives Era Marian Music
    -I believe there was once a forum on the "Alabado Sea Santissimo" for ex
    -Any others that are notable

    Notable Hymnody
    -O Sanctissima
    -Lourdes vs. Fatima Ave
    -Hail Holy Queen
    -Any others?

    Marian Music in Secular Society
    -Ave Maria Schubert
    -others?

    Particular Notes on the Feast of the MOther of God versus Feast of the Maternity Propers
    -Succure Miseris
    -others?

    A wide range of topics, I am grateful for any information, pictures, recordings any of you know about. Thank you.

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  • probe
    Posts: 271
    Chant: Ave Maria Mode I Secular: so many. Maybe Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo?

    Magnificat solemn 1D. Some members of this forum have contributed a setting.

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  • m_r_taylor
    Posts: 411
    Couldn't tell you if this is worth it - but you may find information here of use.

    The Greatest Marian Prayers: Their History, Meaning, and Usage

    ...Twelve prayers have been singled out for study here as the greatest of these Marian prayers: the Hail Mary, the Magnificat, the SubTuum, the Akathist Hymn, the Final Antiphons (Alma Redemptoris Mater and Ave Regina Caelorum), the Hail Holy Queen, the Angelus, the Regina Caeli, the Stabat Mater, the Memorare, the Litany of Loreto and the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary. An Appendix to the work includes sixty other short prayers which have found their way into the popular piety of the People of God...


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  • Xopheros
    Posts: 180
    As you also plan to mention uses outside a liturgical context ("Marian Music in Secular Society"), a very interesting case is "Virgo prudentissima". The original Marian antiphone is sung as a cantus firmus in the tenor, and all other voices sing a contrafactum that expresses the imperial claims of "Caesare Maximiliano". The article in The Journal of Musicology about this motet is behind a paywall, so you might only obtain it by knowing someone who knows someone at a university with access to this journal, but maybe a citation from the abstract is sufficient for your case:
    The symbolism of Isaac's compositions helped Maximilian, who crafted his public image very carefully by commissioning numerous large-scale propagandistic textual and visual works, to portray himself as a noble and enlightened ruler seeking protection for his imperial crown and empire from the Virgin Mary.
  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 639
    @Xopheros thats really interesting I didnt know about that one. Maybe I can find some info else where without the $$
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