This is a sacred motet with latin text. The English translation is below:
Gaude, virgo mater Christi
"Rejoice, virgin mother of Christ who hast conceived by ear, with Gabriel as messenger.
Rejoice, for full of God thou gavest birth without pain, with the lily of purity.
Rejoice, for the resurrection of thy Son now shines, whose death thou mourned,
Rejoice, as Christ ascends, and, in thy sight, is carried into heaven by his own strength.
Rejoice, thou who riseth after him and to whom great honor is due in the palace of heaven,
Where the fruit of thy womb is granted us, through thee, to enjoy in eternal rejoicing. Alleluia."
This was a 4 voice motet with women singing the top parts and males sing the bottom parts. I enjoyed the mixture of male and female voices. One feature that I noticed is that the cadences were kind of slipped in and the piece kept moving along with a sense of forward motion.
There was a lot of imitation that occured at the point of unison. I liked that I could hear a sense of choral build up during the piece, something I had not preciously heard in earlier music, and it had a very nice cadence at the end.
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