| Stirps
iesse |
| http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6000946s/f128.item.zoom Latin3549 manuscript "Benedicamus Domino"の定旋律の上を、stirtps iesseのfloridな旋律が飾り、verticalなtropusとなっている。この形式はのちのモテットによく似ているが、専門家によれば、直接の関係はないという（Ｓｔ．マーシャル”楽派”参照）。 このレスポンソリウムは、クリスマスや昇天祭の折に使われ、作者はFulbert of Chartresである。Fulbert of Chartres(およそ 960-1028) はシャルトル大聖堂の枢機卿であった。 This response, the liturgical site is both the Feast of the Nativity of the Lord as the feast of the Assomption1, is taken from a poem of Fulbert of Chartres dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin (Solem iustitiae, regem paritura supremum) 2. Fulbert (circa 960-1028) was a canon and schoolmaster of Chartres before getting on the see in the city in 1006. With the support of William V of Aquitaine, he undertook the construction of the cathedral, the old building having was destroyed by fire in 1020. Friend of Hugh Capet and advisor Robertle Pious, he distinguished himself by the various gifts of exegete, theologian and hagiographer, the letter writer, doctor and preacher who brought him the nickname "Socrates of the Franks." Music, one of the building arts of the medieval Quadrivium, not him she was not indifferent either, since it helped to spread in France pedagogical innovations of Guido d'Arezzo in area.3. Our response consisting of three hexameters (the whole poem has nine) operates the biblical theme provided by Isaiah 11: 1-2. We now read that oracle (Is 11: 1-10) on the first week of Advent: "A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Rest upon him the Spirit of the Lord ... "The poet chartrain Mariological supports the interpretation of the passage (already traditional) 4 on the game sounds akin the words virga (rod) and Virgo (virgin), the latter which is outside in the text, but some earlier chapters in the same book of Isaiah, according to the Vulgate: "Behold a virgin shall conceive ..." (Is 7, 14). The response Stirps represents not only a literary witnessed the great development of Marian devotion in the West from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, but, somehow, the musical setting of the great iconographic theme of the Tree of Jesse. "Stirps Jesse florigeram germinavit virgulam et in flore spiritus quiescit paraclitus. Fructum profert virgula per quem vivunt saecula. Stirpis ex davitice virga dicta mistice que sic et sic floruit Et que florem protulit. Virga iesse virgo est Dei mater flos Filius eius est cuius Pater, huic flori preter morem edito canunt chori sanctorum ex debito: Laus et jubilatio potestas cum imperio sit sine termino celorum domino" |