Alma polis religio; Axe poli cum artica
Four-voice motet by Egidius de Aurelia
Sources
Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musèe Condè 564, fol. 67v-68 (4/2).
Facsimiles
GENNRICH, Friedrich. Abriss der Mensuralnotation des XIV und der ersten Hälfte des XV Jahrhunderts, Nieder-Modau: 1948. Musikwissenschaftliche Studienbibliothek 3-4, plate 17.
Editions
1. The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, Musèe Condè, 564 (olim 1047) and Modena, Biblioteca Estense, a M. 5,24 (olim lat. 568), edited by Ursula Günther, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae
39, p. 40.
2. Motets of French Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1968. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century V, p. 155.
Literature
1. REANEY, Gilbert. 'Voices and instruments in the music of Guillaume de Machaut', Revue belge de musicologie, X (1956), p. 98 n. 1.
2. HOPPIN, Richard H. and Suzanne CLERCX. 'Notes biographiques sur quelques musiciens français du XIVe
siècle', Les Colloques de Wègimont II, 1955, Paris: Sociètè d'Edition "Les belles lettres", 1959, p. 81.
3. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 24-25.
4. LONG, Michael P. 'Francesco Landini and the Florentine cultural èlite', Early Music History, 3 (1983), pp. 95-96.
5. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Une version a cinq voix du motet "Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis" dans le manuscript
E-BCEN 853', Musica Disciplina, XXXIX (1985): 5-44.
Recordings
The Medieval Romantics, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1991): CDA66463.
Text
TRIPLUM
Alma polis religio,
doctrine pollens radio
fratrum sancti Augustini,
itidem sunt hii celibes
cuncti viginti cerices
musicique precipui.
Uno promo hinc peritos,
in neüma doctissimos
armonia
subpantrana,
breviter ex quis modulo
P. de Sancto Dionisio.
Melos plures vigent, quia
Johannes Foreastarii
cum Nicholao Bichomui,
professores teorici;
camena J. Strutevilla,
Augustini de Florentia,
Johannes
Desiderii,
unioculus Teobaldus,
Taxinus de Parisius
Orpheico fonte poti
ac uterque Ydrolanus,
modulator Ciprianus
Guillermus Cavalerii,
Girardus de Colonia,
cum Clemente de Berria,
Petrus quoque Amatori
tenorem
preminet Gratro
cum Galterio de Gardino,
Jeronimus de Parisii.
Quorum fuit melodia
ac dulcior armonia
in canore et cantamen
modulamen hoc carmine
a solis ortus crdine
et usque terre limitem.
MOTETUS
Axe poli
cum arctica
ydam gerit extatura,
archetipi in figura,
antarcticus a natura,
forma cuius est sperica,
vallat vercia diaphana:
Religio ita ista
zodiaca sidera
ambit cosmum industria
atque antonomasia.
Cunctos cellit
armonia
auroratque solercia
Egidius de Aurelia,
manant a quo cantamina
pariter cum hac musica.
Carmineus J. de Porta
se comendat per omnia.
Vobis istis iure oda
debetur, que adoria
plauza digna cum dulcia.
Canent ergo cum
latria
voce cuncti dulcisona:
O gloriosa domina,
beata nobis gaudia