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The opening words and refrain of Ellen's song, namely "Ave Maria" (Latin for "Hail Mary"), may have led to the idea of adapting Schubert's melody as a setting for the full text of the traditional Roman Catholic prayer, "Ave Maria". The Latin version of the "Ave Maria" is now so frequently used with Schubert's melody that it has led to the ...
Ave Maria (Hail Mary), [1] WAB 6, is a sacred motet by Anton Bruckner, a setting of the Latin prayer Ave Maria. He composed it in Linz in 1861 and scored the short work in F major for seven unaccompanied voices. The piece, sometimes named an Offertorium, was published in Vienna in 1867.
The Hail Mary (Latin: Ave Maria) or Angelical salutation [1] [2] is a traditional Catholic prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke : the Angel Gabriel 's visit to Mary (the Annunciation ) and Mary's subsequent visit to Elisabeth , the mother of John the Baptist ...
Several modern theorists have applied the concept of syntactic imitation to describe the lucid relationship between the text and Josquin's musical setting. Each phrase corresponds to a line of text, cleverly exposed through points of imitation. Structural articulations often resolve on cadences, where voices arrive on perfect intervals.
The 52-bar long motet in F major is scored SATB choir and S and A soloists, organ and cello ().It begins in Andante with a fugato. [3] The fugato is ending on bar 8 with the by Haas so-called Marien-Kadenz (cadence on the word "Maria"), which Bruckner will recall in the first movement of the Study Symphony in F minor [4] and in the Adagio of the later Symphony No. 3.
The text is the beginning of the Latin Catholic liturgical Angelus prayer, three verses based on biblical sources, with the Ave Maria as a refrain. In Biebl's setting, the Ave Maria refrain contains only the first half of the Ave Maria prayer, the benediction of Mary and the fruit of her womb, Jesus.
When staying in Wels during the summer of 1881 Bruckner met Luise Hochleitner, a singer with a beautiful alto voice. [1] Bruckner promised to dedicate to her an Ave Maria.The work, which was composed on 5 February 1882, —almost 20 years after his more famous motet— is for alto (or baritone) solo voice and keyboard (organ, piano or harmonium).
" Maria, dich lieben ist allzeit mein Sinn" (Mary, to love you is always on my mind) is a Marian hymn in German. It was created in the beginning of the 18th century as " Maria zu lieben, ist allzeit mein Sinn " (Loving Mary is always on my mind), and became the most popular Marian hymn in German.