Playlist (Petits Motets):
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9FA0A39100B7F95C
Ave cœli munus supernum, LWV 77/2
Petit motet for three voices and basso continuo
Text: Anonymous
Music: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
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Petite haute-contre I: Gérard Lesne, countertenor
Petite haute-contre II: Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, tenor
Basse: François Fauché, bass
Les Arts Florissants,
conducted by William Christie
Musicians:
Éric Bellocq, theorbo
Élisabeth Matiffa, bass viol
William Christie, organ
Recorded in October 1987
Pitch: A = 415 Hz
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The score featured in this video is from the manuscript ‘Mottets a 3 voix / Et symphonies / de feu Mr. de Lully / Tome second’ (atelier Philidor, circa 1703-6, Bibliothèque nationale de France).
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1107378
In this manuscript, the first bar on the page that can be seen at 2:40 mistakenly repeated the last bar of the previous page; we have edited it out.
Eser and Marc D.