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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture There are a number of musical settings of 'Ave Maria gratia plena' around 1500, when composers began to be interested in setting prayers to music. Among the works published by Knud Jeppesen in Die mehrstimmige italienische Laude um 1500 (Leipzig and Kopenhagen, 1935), based mostly on two volumes of laude published by Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice in 1507-8, there are 11 settings of Ave Maria, and all the ones with full text (9) include the phrase 'Sancta Maria ora pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis' in some form; sometimes it is 'Sancta Maria mater Dei' and 'mortis nostrae'. Where composers are named, they were active in the Veneto. This shows that the phrase was commonly used at least by 1500 in Italy. But apparently not so in the north: Johannes Ockeghem (d. Tours 1497) set his Ave Maria without the continuation Sancta Maria . . . Bonnie Blackburn ------------------- Bonnie Blackburn 67 St Bernard's Road Oxford OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808 fax +44 (0)1865 512237 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html