Circumdederunt me geminitus
  • Jeffrey TuckerJeffrey Tucker
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    We have a piece for Sacred Music by a scholar who unearthed the first polyphonic setting "Circumdederunt me geminitus" written for the New World, published in Mexico, by Hernando Franco, 1580 or so. So we are publishing the entire motet -- first time to appear in modern times.

    But I was puzzling about the chant. It is in the old Mass as the Introit for Septuagesima. It doesn't seem to appear at all in the new Grad for Sundays at least.
  • Michael O'Connor
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    Jeff,

    I need to check again, but I believe this is from the Matins for the Dead in the old Sevillian liturgy, which was the de facto rite for the New World. A friend of mine in DC did a nice dissertation on this.

    Mike
  • Michael O'Connor
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    OK. Found it. Yes, he says that it is an alternate invitatory for Matins of the Dead. The Gabrieli Consort included Morales's setting on the CD of Funeral music for Charles V.
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