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Ave Regina caelorum
Staff Notation • Sacred, Motets
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Different typesettings and voicings of the same work. This page shows the main edition; the others are below.
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Ave Regina caelorum by Peter Philips — Lyrics
Ave Regina coelorum,
Ave Domina Angelorum:
Salve radix, salve porta, [or Salve, radix sancta,]
Ex qua mundo lux est orta:
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About Ave Regina caelorum
Peter Philips was a celebrated composer of sacred and secular vocal music in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This motet, Ave Regina caelorum, is a setting of a beautiful Marian antiphon, sung in Latin. The text, which addresses the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven and Lady of Angels, speaks of her as the root and gate from which the world's light was born. It continues to praise her glorious beauty and calls on her to pray for us to Christ. Philips crafts this into a rich, devotional motet for SSATB voices, allowing the expressive Latin text to unfold with intricate harmony and flowing lines. It is a fine example of the high-quality sacred music of its era.
