The great musical forms dedicated to Saint Jacek Odrowąż Cover Image

Wielkie formy muzyczne dedykowane św. Jackowi Odrowążowi,
The great musical forms dedicated to Saint Jacek Odrowąż

Author(s): Piotr Towarek
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, History of Church(es), Pastoral Theology
Published by: Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne Diecezji Elbląskiej w Elblągu
Keywords: musical forms; mass; cantata; church concert; St. Jacek Odrowąż; St. Hyacinth of Poland; hagiology

Summary/Abstract: The presented article introduces the modern recipient to great musical forms dedicated to St. Jacek Odrowąż (Hyacinth of Poland). These include first monodic compositions: rhyme officially Adest dies celebris (1540), two Latin sequences Salvator collaudemus (first half of the 16th century) and Funde de caelestibus (from the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries), as well as two melodies of the Mass Alleluia with verses Gaude Hyacinthe and Memor pater, about Hyacinthe (1536). To the group of polyphonic compositions related to St. Jacek Odrowąż includes: a polychoral church concert Ave Florum Flos Hyacinthe by Marcin Mielczewski (d. 1651), an anonymous church concert, as well as a cantata Saint Jacek Patron of the Polish Crown (1780) by JakubGołąbek and priest Wacław Sierakowski (preserved only in the text version). This group also includes two contemporary mass compositions: Mass for St. Jacek Odrowąż (2004) by JacekSykulski and Missa in honorem sancti Hyacinthi (2015) composed by Paweł Bębenek.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 177-192
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish