Salve Caput Crucentatum
  • Chantmama
    Posts: 3
    Does anyone know where I can find the Gregorian chant Passion hymn, "Salve Caput Crucentatum?" I heard it yesterday on Pandora and would really like to sing it with my schola.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,221
    From notes on the net, it seems to be excerpted from the hymn "Salve mundi salutare"; maybe that'll help locate it.

    And I think "crucentatum" is a widespread typo for "cruentatum" (bloodied), so check for that too.
  • aldrich
    Posts: 230
    I too wanted to find a chant but I could not find one, so I set all seven hymns in Gregorian chant. Do tell me if you are interested in a copy. The first of the seven hymns is here: http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/6251/membra-nostri-jesu-christi-chant#Item_1.

    I tried uploading the entire set back then but it was too heavy.
  • aldrich
    Posts: 230
    BTW, the entire set is entitle "Membra nostri Jesu Christi." "Salve mundi salutare" is the incipit of the first hymn. "Salve caput cruentatum," on the other hand, is the last in the set.
  • expeditus1
    Posts: 483
    In "Cantiones Sacrae: A Collection of Chants and Hymns," there is a non-chant version of "Salve Caput Cruentatum." Loads of others, as well.

    http://archive.org/stream/cantionessacrae00mohrgoog#page/n133/mode/2up
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  • aldrich
    Posts: 230
    Thanks, expeditus, for sharing this! Let me just register my observation. The verses are not the ones that comprise the orginal hymn honouring the Sacred Head or, more properly, the Sacred Face. The poem "Membra nostri Jesu Christi" had seven parts each with 10 verses. For one, the hymn above has only 6 verses. Looking at the second verse, I believe that the verses are centos from other parts of the poem. "Salve, latus Salvatoris," I think, comes from the fourth part of the hymn, and "Clavos, pedum, plagas duras" comes from the first part.

    In the meantime, I will be trying the SATB.
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