O lux beata Trinitas - Mendelssohn - typo ?.

[ebykm]

The latin text for Mendelssohn is "te nostra duplex gloria per cuncta laudet saecula". However the page for O lux beata Trinitas have "Te nostra supplex gloria Per cuncta laudet sæcula".

The imslp score for Mendelssohn 121 have the word duplex

Is this a typo on Mendelssohn score ?. i feel the word "duplex" is bit odd.

Thanks,

http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Adsp ... ndelssohn)

http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/O_lux_beata_Trinitas

[choralia]

In the Wikipedia page for Mendelssohn's vespers (onlly available in German):

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesperges ... ndelssohn)

they remark that Mendelssohn applied multiple text variations, supposedly intentional:

From Psalm 119, verse 132, a Variant form of the Latin text has been adopted:

(...)

The book of Daniel contains the eighteenth verse of the ninth chapter, but the word "desolationem" has been changed to "tribulationem":

(...)

The text of the hymn comes from a hymn collection attributed to Ambrose of Milan (Hymn XI). Again, there was a small change, replacing the word "supplex" with "duplex":

(...)

I agree that the "double Gloria" seems a little bit odd. However, if it was intentional, I guess that it should be retained in the score. I think it's correct that the general text page contains the normal text instead.

Max

[ebykm]

Thanks Max,

Any thoughts on using supplex and desolationem when performing O lux beata Trinitas section alone ?. and use the text as is when performing OP121.