Order of the Scenes of the morality play from the Scivias Vision of Music and from the Ordo Virtutum, with modes provided

Table 3

THE SCIVIAS VISION OF MUSIC, III 13/8-9

 

THE ORDO VIRTUTUM musical setting

  (modes)     (modes)

 

 

 

PROLOGUE
Lines 1-8 in the Ordo virtutum only d2-d1-e3

 

O plangens vox … non devorasti lines 50-58

e4

 

 

 

O vivens fons … causa fuisset lines 198-208

e4-d2-e4

 

 

 

O nos peregrine sumus … te magno honore lines 9-49

e4-d1-e4-e4-e4-d2-e4-e4-e4-e4-e4-e3-e4-spoken

 

O nos peregrine sumus … te magno honore lines 9-49

 e4-d1-e4-e4-e4-d2-e4-e4-e4-e4-e4-e3-e4-spoken

 

 

 

O plangens vox … non devorasti lines 50-58

e4

Heu, heu … vitam! 159-60

e4

 

Quae est hec potestas … habitamus lines 59-67

spoken-g8-d1

Ego Humilitas … talamo lines 68-74

d2-e4-e3

 

Ego Humilitas … talamo lines 68-74

d2-e4-e3

 

 

 

Lines 75-155 in the Ordo virtutum only       

d2-e4-e3-d2-spoken-g8-e4-e4-e4-e3-d2-d1-e3-d1 on a to e3 on a-e4-d1-e2-e1-g7e2-e1-d2-d1-e2-c-d1-g8-g8-c-e4-c-c-e4 on b-g7

O filie Israhel … filie Syon! lines 156-58

d2

 

O filie Israhel … filie Syon! lines 156-58

d2

Quae est hec potestas … habitamus lines 59-67

spoken-g8-d1

 

Heu, heu … vitam! 159-60

e4

O vos regales virtutes … redemptionis lines 161-78

e3-e3-d2-d2-d2-d2-e3

 

O vos regales virtutes … redemptionis lines 161-78

e3-e3-d2-d2-d2-d2-e3

O Anima … lucis lines 183-84

e4

 

O tu omnis … surgere lines 179-82

e3

O tu omnis … surgere lines 179-82

e3

 

O Anima … lucis lines 183-84

e4

Et o vera medicina … passus est lines 185-97

d2-d2—d2-e4

 

Et o vera medicina … passus est lines 185-97

d2-d2-d2-e4

 

 

 

O vivens fons … causa fuisset lines 198-208

e4-d2-e4   

Que es? … rex angelorum lines 209-28

spoken-d2-d2-d2-d1-e4-d2-d2-c-e4

 

Que es? … rex angelorum lines 209-28

spoken-d2-d2-d2-d1-e4-d2-d2-c-e4

 

 

 

Lines 229-41 in the Ordo virtutum only        

d2-spoken-d2

O deus … celestem Ierusalem lines 242-51

d1-e4

 

O deus … celestem Ierusalem lines 242-51

d1-e4

FINE

 

 

POSTLUDE

Lines 252-69 in the Ordo virtutum only

e3

 

{Return to text}