Renaissance — Sacred & secular
Renaissance · 1590

Stabat Mater

G. P. da Palestrina

Key
F
Time
C
Tempo
♩=56
AO focus
AO3

Incipit

Form

Eight-voice double-chorus motet. Setting of the medieval sequence on Mary at the foot of the cross.

Teaching points

  • Cori spezzati double-chorus antiphony
  • Sequence text in 20 stanzas
  • AO3: Marian devotion in Renaissance
Full score ↓Public domain

CPDL multiple eds, PD.

Topic T9Topic T1