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Ave Regina coelorum
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These are not a true Ave Marias.
| Ave Regina Coelorum a3 | |
| Recording: not available | |
| Lyrics: | source: CPDL | 
| Ave Regina coelorum,  Ave Domina Angelorum: Salve radix, salve porta, [or Salve, radix sancta,] Ex qua mundo lux est orta: Gaude Virgo gloriosa, Super omnes speciosa, Vale, o valde decora, Et pro nobis Christum [semper] exora. Alleluia.  | 
      Hail, Queen of the heavens,  Hail, ruler of the angels: Hail, root, hail, portal [or Hail, holy root] From whom light has shone to the world. Hail, Virgin most glorious, Beautiful above all, Farewell, O most comely, And pray [always] to Christ for us. Alleluia.  | 
    
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| Ave Regina Coelorum III (a4) (also available on CPDL) | 
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    A 
    biographical dictionary of musicians (ed. Theodore 
    Baker) G. Schirmer, 1905 - Biography & Autobiography - 695 pages  | 
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    Dufay Guillaume famous French contrapuntist b abt 1400 d Cambrai Nov 27 1474 being the most recent in the distinguished triad Dunstable Binchois Dufay In 1428 he became a chorister in the l apal Chapel and in 1437 entered the service of Philippe le Bon Duke of Burgundy he took holy orders in Paris lived seven years in Savoy and finally became a canon at Cambrai According to Adam of Fulda I made many changes in notation he is the reputed inventor of white open notes Fr X Haberl in the 4th book of the Vierteljahrsschrift fuer Musik-Wissenschaft 1885 gives a list of 150 comp s found in the libraries of Rome Bologna and Trieste incl masses finished and fragmentary motets a magnificat other church mus French chansons etc Other MSS are in the libraries at Paris, Brussels, Cambrai and Munich | 
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