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Hello.
"Taking as its point of departure the hymn of the same name for the Feast
of "Corpus Christi" (Thursday after Trinity Sunday), "Missa Pange Lingua" is
the only Mass setting of the period to do so. It is the general belief that the
texts for the Office and Mass of this feast were written in 1263 by Thomas
Aquinas, at the request of Pope Urban IV. The opening line of the hymn is
identical with that of a hymn celebrating the cross of Christ, written in 569
by Venantius Fortunatus, poet and bishop of Poitiers. The stanzas of both poems
have the same metrical plan. The melody to which Aquinas's text is sung and
which was used by Josquin is similar to that found in a manuscript in the
olddest Cistercian abbey at Heiligenkreuz (Austria), which was founded in 1135".
This fragment was taken from Willem ELDERS's composition of the booklet
for the french vocal Renaissance ensemble "A Sei Voci"'s setting of Josquin
DESPREZ's "Missa Pange Lingua", being assumed that Monsieur DESPREZ (ca.1440-
1521) could have written the Mass in the first quarter of the sixteenth century.
Thus, could you please so kindly supply me with information as regards:
- any known source addressing the religious,historical,rethorical,
political picture of Poitiers Cathedral in the Middle Ages;
- any information on Venantius Fortunatus's work and/or existence.
Much thankful since then,
Luciano Baraśna.
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