motet notes - anonymous

Anon: Verbum patris umanatur

Certainly the most popular strophic versus from the entire Aquitanian repertoire and the earliest example of three-part polyphony, this raucous and unusual setting gives joyous utterance to the miracle of the season, with each short strophe ending in the refrain "Eya! Eya! Nova gaudia!"

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©Barbara Thornton and Benjamin Bagby

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