O virgo splendens, Anonymous 14th-century Spanish (Llibre Vermell), sung by Quire Cleveland, dir. Ross W. Duffin, at St. John’s Cathedral, Cleveland, on Nov. 7, 2015.
O virgo splendens is described as a “caça” in its unique source, the fourteenth-century Spanish manuscript known as the Llibre Vermell (the Red Book). The word “caça” means “hunt” or “chase,” and we find the same word used in fourteenth-century France (“chace”) and Italy (“caccia”) to describe canonic pieces. One voice part begins and is followed in turn by two others, as if the following voices were hunting the first along the same trail. The melody of O virgo splendens is chant-like in that it is not metrical, but each phrase is exactly the same length, so the three voices come together every few seconds before proceeding to the next phrase.
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