![]() ![]() (This technique was no doubt influential on later composers, including Nicolas Gombert (c1495-c1560) and Jean Maillard (c1515-after 1570) who were each to combine no fewer than four plainsongs in one motet.) The soprano and bass voices mostly sing the Alma redemptoris melody, beginning with its distinctive rising fifth, and the alto and tenor have the Ave regina material. Alma redemptoris mater / Ave regina caelorum (23.2) represents a rare style of composition in which two plainsong melodies are elaborated simultaneously across a four-voice texture-‘a technical tour-de-force’, as described by Finscher.
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